Archaeological excavations of the site of Crkvina in Čuh Polje near Sali

Tijekom kolovoza i rujna 2018. godine Odjel za arheologiju Sveu­čilišta u Zadru proveo je sustavna arheološka iskopavanja lokali­teta Crkvina u Čuh polju kod Sali s ostatcima urušene crkvice. Tim istraživanjima u potpunosti je tlocrtno definiran izgled crkve kao male jednobrodne pravokutne građevine s dubokom apsidom na istočnom dijelu. Temeljem pronađenih nalaza, načina gradnje i usporedbe s najbližom vrlo sličnom crkvom (Sv. Viktor na Citori­ju), utvrđeno je da najvjerojatnije pripada kasnoantičkom vreme­nu, a vremenom njezine gradnje okvirno se smatra 5./6. stoljeće.n August and September of 2018 the Department of Archaeol­ogy of the University of Zadar conducted systematic archaeologi­cal excavations of the site of Crkvina in Čuh Polje near Sali where the remains of a small dilapidated church were located. In the ex­cavations the ground plan of the church was defined as a small single-nave rectangular structure with a deep apse on the eastern side. On the basis of the recovered finds, manner of building and comparison with a very similar church (St. Victor in Citorij) it was determined that it most probably belonged to Late Antiquity, dat­ing broadly to the 5th/6th century