A Sequel after 120 years: the excavation of J. A. Jíra for the Society of Friends of Czech Atiques from the Years 1897-1898. The La Tène and Roman Period
Abstract
The article summarizes findings from the La Tene and Roman period from archaeological excavations J. A.
Jira from the years 1897-1898, conducted on the northwestern outskirts of Prague in today's neighborhoods Bubeneč and Dejvice. The introductory chapters outlined the significance of this archaeologically rich part of the city and there are also details to archival material and their own field events.
Yet it is one of the largest settlement excavation from that time. Field documentation is of a good quality and it is possible to compile an overall excavation plan.
Spectrum of preserved metal and bone finds is more or less typical for the settlement environment. Exceptions are two fragments of so called Roman provincial utility ceramics and two fragments of relief terra sigillata.
Along with the findings of the Przeworsk culture, they show us a wider range of contacts of the Roman period population, especially in the 2nd and 3rd Century AD. l. Findings of exogenous character comes from these areas of Prague moreover more.
They have repeatedly appeared in the literature assumption that this whole area formed its advantageous location on the Vltava important center. This hypothesis is supported by the diversity of production facilities, unusual findings and a number of documents the presence of the social elite, presented particularly in the Early Roman period richly furnished "princely" graves.
Research by J. A.
Jira from the years 1897-1898 has always represented an important stage in exploring this unusual location, and because of the present study is the first professionally published its artefactual part.