Late Bronze Age grave in Zbelava near Varaždin

Abstract

Godine 1997. provedena su zaštitna arheološka istraživanja na lokalitetu Zbelava – Pod lipom na trasi autoceste Zagreb – Goričan u varaždinskoj Podravini. Položaj Pod lipom bio je naseljen u više epoha, a najintenzivnije u kasnoj fazi starijega željeznog doba. Tijekom istraživanja 1997. pronađen je i jedan grob sa spaljenim ostacima pokojnika položenim u žaru koji se u kulturno-kronološkome smislu svrstava u razdoblje kasnoga brončanog doba. To je ujedno i jedini takav nalaz pronađen za istraživanja u Zbelavi, a pripada rjeđim nalazima te vrste na području varaždinske Podravine i šire.In 1997 archaeological rescue excavations were conducted at the Zbelava-Pod lipom site on a section of the Zagreb- Goričan motorway in the Drava River zone (Podravina) near the city of Varaždin. The Pod lipom site was inhabited in several epochs, most intensively in the late phase of the Early Iron Age. During research in 1997, a grave was found containing the charred remains of a deceased person placed in an urn, which was culturally and chronologically classified as Late Bronze Age. This is also the only such find discovered during excavations in Zbelava, and it belongs among the rarer finds of this type in the territory of Varaždin’s Podravina and beyond