Istraživanja Liburnskoga obrambenog sustava u Prezidu 2006.

Research of the Liburnian defence system in Prezid 2006.

CROATIA; SLOVENIA

In the course of the 1960s, the study of the Liburnian wall was intensified. The Interacademic Limes Committee initiated the systematic research of the whole section of Claustrae Alpium Iuliarum in the regions of Croatia and Slovenia. Within the sections analyzed, the defence walls in the area of Prezid were only casually mentioned in a single sentence (CAI, I, 1971: 64), and the west section of the route was drawn into the map, on the position of Pri zidi (with the length of 1050 m). The research in Prezid (Fig. 1) is the continuation of planned but never realized excavations in this part of the clausura. Since 2004, the Institute of Archaeology conducts archaeological research in the area of the site Prezid, as a part of the project "The Liburnian Limes - Archaeological Topography", with dr. sc. Goranka Lipovac as project leader. The research is carried out on the specific positions of Gredice, Vražji vrtec and Straža. In parallel and also in co-operation with the Institute project, the Maritime and Historical Museum of the Croatian Littoral has started research of the south section of these defence walls on the sites around the village Klane. The field research of the ubication of the north section of the Prezid route of the Liburnian defence wall was initiated in 2006 on the position of Gredice. This position was selected for the reason of its favourable accessibility. On the cleansed part of the Gredice position, we defined the structure of the Roman defence wall (Ð830, 94 m/nm ) for the length of 345 m. It stretches in the direction west-east. Towards the east, the wall structure stretches in an unbroken series up to the position of Straža, and towards the west it stretches up to Vražji Vrtec (Fig. 2.). This section was also recorded geodetically and entered into the system of coordinates (Fig. 3.). The building structure of the Roman defence wall is composed of a dry wall construction in its upper part. This structure consists of larger stone blocks, processed or half-processed. The preserved height of the wall structure is between 0, 35 m and 0, 50 m. A considerable part of the wall structure is demolished at the bottom, immediately by the wall itself. In this way, the dry wall structure leaves the impression of a significant dry wall mound. Parts of the wall transgress the natural stone layers. The width of the wall is difficult to determine in the current phase of research. According to first results of the geodetic recordings, the wall is between 2,20 m and 2,50 m wide. We suppose that there is no specific foundation footing, considering the preserved dry-wall building structure. It is interesting to mention that this type of dry wall construction is encountered neither on any other section of the Liburnian defence system, nor wider, in the areas of other sections within the Claustrae Alpium Iuliarum. On the opposite, south part of the Prezidan section of the Liburnian defence wall, the position Pri zidi, the wall structure is completely equivalent to all other wall structures of the Liburnian defence section of the Clausura: the section in Klane, in Grobnik and Jelenje. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Oslanjajući se na ranije podatke monografije Claustrae Alpium Iuliarum, Fontes I (CAI 1971) te istraživanja vršena 60-ih na području Liburnije, Gorskog kotara te slovenskih Alpa, istraživan je dio Claustre Alpium Iuliarum u okolici Prezida tj. sjevernih padina brda koja okružuju prezidsku udolinu. Utvrđen je dio bedema od vrha Straža preko Gredica do vrha Vražji vrtec. Od Vražjeg vrtca bedem se spušta u udolinu te prelazi na južne padine. Kasnoantički bedem je izrađen u suhozidu širine 2,20 - 2,50 m. Na Vražjem vrtcu je utvrđena prethistorijska gradina (keramika), antička građevina te dio obrambene strukture s početka 20. stoljeća, što govori o strateškim obilježjima samog položaja. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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