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Modern period finds from the graves at the church of the Blessed Virgin Mary’s Birth in Svetice This year’s archaeological excavations have revealed a number of new questions and problems that can only be answered with future systematic excavation. The walls of a basement area continuing in the interior of the church below the sanctuary were excavated in this year’s campaign. It is only clear that there were three construction phases in the development of the room, and that it was at a certain period restructured with the addition of a wall, which was later strengthened because of some fissures and the danger of collapse. It is impossible to determine the period of these additions without reference to the interior of the sanctuary. Considering the small scale of the excavations and the inability to analyse the whole picture it is impossible to give a final word on the excavated walls. Besides the walls, nine 17th and 18th c. graves were also excavated on the southern side of the church of the Blessed Virgin Mary’s birth. The deceased were buried in wooden caskets and grave holes. According to the inventory of grave finds the burials date from the Baroque period. These are saints’ medals, crosses and rosary beads. Grave 3 is exceptional with regard to the grave finds: a Latin cross with an eye, with a representation of vitam praesta, a Greek cross of arms of equal length with a representation of St Benedict, a bronze ring with an inscription AVE MARIA IOSEPH, 13 raspberry- shaped glass paste beads comprising a rosary, a glass paste ring eye in a bronze setting with a missing circle, a piece of leather on which a glue of piscine origin was detected by the Natural History laboratory of the Croatian Conservation Institute, a medal with a representation of St Benedict and a medal with a representation of Maria Zell on the obverse and St John Nepomucene on the reverse. |
