Results of Rescue Excavations at the AN COKP Čepin site on a section of the VC Corridor in 2008

U zaštitnim arheološkim istraživanjima nalazišta AN COKP Čepin na trasi koridora VC, dionica Đakovo-Osijek, na blagom uzvišenju jugozapadno od Čepina, istraženi su ostaci srednjovjekovnog nizinskog naselja s ukopima jama, kanala, rovova i stupova. Manji broj cjelina vjerojatno pripada naselju lasinjske kulture. Velika istražena površina nalazišta omogućila je prepoznavanje infrastrukture srednjovjekovnog naselja, od koje se izdvajaju ukopi, kanali koji su zatvarali središnju površinu s ostacima objekata koji svjedoče o vjerojatno obiteljski strukturiranom naselju sa skupinama objekata raspoređenih u manje cjeline. Od pokretnih arheoloških nalaza, u najvećem su broju pronađeni ulomci keramičkog posuđa, zatim slijede nalazi kućnog lijepa, dok su u manjem broju izdvojeni nalazi metalnih i kamenih predmeta. Od funkcionalnih oblika keramičkog posuđa prepoznaju se različiti oblici lonaca S-profilacije s ukrasima valovnica i vodoravnih linija, koji datiraju naselje u razdoblje 9.-11. st.During archaeological rescue excavations conducted at the AN COKP ČEPIN site on a section of the VC corridor, Đakovo-Osijek route, on a mild elevation south-west of Čepin (Fig. 1), the remains of a medieval lowland settlement were examined with sunken pits, channels, ditches and pillars. The minor number of finds probably belongs to a Lasinja culture settlement. The large excavated surface of the site made it possible to identify the infrastructure of the medieval settlement, in which sunken channels used to close the central surface with the remains of structures that testify to a settlement that probably had a familial structure, with groups of structures distributed in smaller units (Fig. 2). The largest number of archaeological finds consists of pottery fragments, followed by house daub, while only a smaller number of metal and stone artefacts could be excavated. Among the functional forms of pottery, various types of pots with an S-profile and decorative wavy and horizontal lines were identified, dating the settlement in the period from the ninth to eleventh centuries (Fig. 5)