ПРВИЧНИ РЕЗУЛТАТИ ОД ИСТРАЖУВАЊАТА НА ЛОКАЛИТЕТОТ БРДАНОВ КАМЕН
INITIAL RESULTS OF THE RESEARCH OF THE BRDANOV KAMEN SITE

Summary/Abstract: The Brdanov Kamen site is located about 2–2.5 kilometers north-west of Bogdanci, to the left of the Gevgelija-Bogdanci road. In the immediate vicinity, about a kilometer S/E from it, there is also the locality of Sveta Gora. During the preparation of the Archaeological Map of the Municipality of Gevgelija in 1978, bricks, tegulis, imbreks and fragments of ceramic vessels were observed on the surface of the site and it was defined and recorded as a settlement from the Roman period. The first archaeological investigations of the site by us were carried out in 2018. They were used for the rehabilitation of the unprofessionally opened probes and their fitting into a square grid of the site. With this remediation and research, two rooms have been established that belong to the same building, the size and function of which we were not able to define with these researches. With the continuation of research in 2019 and 2020, two more rooms, 2 and 3, were discovered in quadrants G-8 and D-8, of which minimal remains of a suspension for the installation of a hypocaust were discovered in room 2, which probably also existed in room 1. In room 3, in its N/W half which was not destroyed by destructive actions, we ascertained the 120 existence of floor tiling with ceramic bricks, i.e. prints of the same in the mortar base. This room is followed by the inexpertly excavated apsidal room 4, which, together with the minimally preserved remains of two tubs in room 1, indicate that this part of building 1 is a thermae, that is, a bath. With the following excavations, it remains to be determined if these rooms discovered so far are part of a larger building/villa rustica or if this building actually represents a small bathroom.

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