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TransFER – Iron production along the Drava River in the Roman period and the Middle Ages: Creation and transfer of knowledge, technologies and goods. The case studies of Virje and Velike Hlebine.

Archaeological sites Virje and Velike Hlebine are situated in the Croatian lowland, on the bank of the upper course of Drava River. On slightly sloped areas, parts of a primary iron processing smelting workshops were discovered and explored. Since these types of sites are quite rare in northern parts of Croatia, and in order to get a better understanding of the development and organization of the settlement, noninvasive methods were applied. With the help of magnetic method, measurements of apparent magnetic susceptibility and shallow drilling, waste disposals of a workshop, few pit furnaces from the Late Roman period (4th and 5th century), as well as settlement remains from Late Iron Age (3./2, and 1st century BC) were discovered. Additionally, magnetic results and results on 2D electrical resistivity tomography were carefully analyzed at several locations for comparison with results on soil samples analyses for determining origin of iron ore deposits and with the excavated archaeological structures in order to get more reliable interpretations and to check possibilities and limitations of magnetic and resistivity methods on these sites in the specific environmental settings.

Virje ; Hlebine ; geophysical surveys ; magnetic methods ; archaeological research

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