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the foot of Grajski grič. In almost all excavations in the last years were birth of a city? 49
discovered fragments of typical Late La Tène pottery while rare metal
finds from this period are known only from Turnirski prostor.
Excavations more than half a century ago discovered the remains of a
mighty dry stone wall interpreted as remains of walls on the western edge
of Turnirski prostor. Several decades later excavations on the northern
edge of this terrace, beside the monumental building of medieval Žitnica,
discovered remains of kilns dated according to the pottery discovered in
them and in their surrounding in the Late La Tène period. Consequent-
ly we can assume that on the plateau beside the representative quaters the
artisan’s part of the settlement network was located as well.
An exceptional find from this area is a bronze rod-like item with a loop
on one end and a profiled saddle and two with incisions decorated but-
tons with a longer neck on the upper side. Despite the fact that we are cur-
rently lacking any comparisons and hypotheses about its function, it was
according to the morphology of decorated buttons dated in the Late La
Tène period.
From the same period is also the knobbed bronze ring discovered on Pan-
orama which beside the pottery finds demonstrates that was in the peri-
od settled also the second slightly elevated location which gained its ma-
jor importance with the erection of the Roman city. Similar finds come
from female graves from Dolenjska as well as settlement contexts from re-
gions where graves are not known. Due to their position in the graves we
can assume that the females wore them on necklaces with other beads or
pendants. Due to their apotropaic meaning we can assume that they were
parts of attire of females with special status living in hierarchically more
important settlements in the region.
Bronze rod-like item
from Turnirski prostor.
discovered fragments of typical Late La Tène pottery while rare metal
finds from this period are known only from Turnirski prostor.
Excavations more than half a century ago discovered the remains of a
mighty dry stone wall interpreted as remains of walls on the western edge
of Turnirski prostor. Several decades later excavations on the northern
edge of this terrace, beside the monumental building of medieval Žitnica,
discovered remains of kilns dated according to the pottery discovered in
them and in their surrounding in the Late La Tène period. Consequent-
ly we can assume that on the plateau beside the representative quaters the
artisan’s part of the settlement network was located as well.
An exceptional find from this area is a bronze rod-like item with a loop
on one end and a profiled saddle and two with incisions decorated but-
tons with a longer neck on the upper side. Despite the fact that we are cur-
rently lacking any comparisons and hypotheses about its function, it was
according to the morphology of decorated buttons dated in the Late La
Tène period.
From the same period is also the knobbed bronze ring discovered on Pan-
orama which beside the pottery finds demonstrates that was in the peri-
od settled also the second slightly elevated location which gained its ma-
jor importance with the erection of the Roman city. Similar finds come
from female graves from Dolenjska as well as settlement contexts from re-
gions where graves are not known. Due to their position in the graves we
can assume that the females wore them on necklaces with other beads or
pendants. Due to their apotropaic meaning we can assume that they were
parts of attire of females with special status living in hierarchically more
important settlements in the region.
Bronze rod-like item
from Turnirski prostor.
