Прилог кон проучувањето на железното време во Брегалничкиот басен
Contribution to the study of the Iron Age in Bregalnitsa region

Summary/Abstract: The Bregalnitsa basin area in Eastern Macedonia starts with the source of the Bregalnitsa River, and covers the territory around Berovo, Kamenitsa, Vinitsa, Kochani, Shtip, Ovche Pole to a place where the Bregalnitsa river enters the watercourse of the Vardar river near the village of Ulantsi. The archaeological excavations till now have been carried the locations: locality Krivi Dol, near the village of Radanye, Gorno Pole and Orlovi Chuki, near the village of Stari Karaorman, Kunovi Chuki near the village of Orizari , municipality of Kochani, Markov Kamen near the city of Shtip, Krshlyanski Gumenye near the town of Vinitsa, Tekishinski Lozya near the city of Kochani, St. George’s church near the village of Grad, municipality of Delchevo. All these sites are necropolises in the form of small mounds and graves cysts usually placed in circular structures covered with earth mounds. Chronologically these necropolises enter the chronological framework of the Iron Age I, II and III (1000 – end of 5th century BC). The settlements have not been researched till now, because they are set at a high altitude in difficult to access areas protected by defensive walls. The settlement Gradishte Kievo near the village of Upper Balvan, which is the goal of this paper, is now the first settlement which carried out an archaeological research in The Bregalnitsa river basin area. Although the research was small, it gave the first information of the organization of the settlement, its architecture and the material culture of the population by movable findings that place the settlement in the chronological framework of 8th to 6th centuries BC.

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