Donji Vukojevac, north - rescue archaeological excavations on the Zagreb - Sisak highway

Na trasi autoceste Zagreb – Sisak, dionica Velika Gorica, jug – Lekenik, obavljena su zaštitna arheološka istraživanja na lokalitetu Donji Vukojevac, sjever na kojem je otkriven dio naselja iz mlađeg željeznog doba – latena starog oko 2.000 g. Zadana zemljišta za istraživanje – putni prijelaz Donji Vukojevac, obuhvatila su u dužini od 100 m veliku terasu i njezinu kosinu prema dolini potoka Koravca. Iako je širina iskopa bila ograničena na samo 10 m, otkrivene su na ravnoj terasi brojne radne jame i spremišta, rupe od drvenih stupova i temeljni rovovi pravokutnih kuća. Najznačajnije je otkriće uslijedilo u južnom dijelu iskopa na blagoj padini platoa, gdje su otkrivene palisade i temeljni dio zemljanog bedema širine 2 m koji je istražen u dužini od 34 m. U vrijeme života naselja otkrivenoga u Donjem Vukojevcu u ovim krajevima su južno od Turopolja bili Kolapiani, sa središnjim utvrđenim svetištem na Turskoj kosi kraj Topuskog. Sjevernije od Turopolja obitavalo je veliko pleme Jaza, kojemu je jedno od središta bio Sv. Petar Ludbreški, a veliko latensko utvrđeno naselje otkriveno u Donjem Vukojevcu vjerojatno je pripadalo samostalnom panonskom plemenu Andizetima.On the Zagreb - Sisak highway, section Velika Gorica, South - Lekenik, rescue archaeological excavations were conducted on the site Donji Vukojevac - North. During June and July 2010, a team of archaeologists from the Institute of Archaeology explored the 1000 m2 area on which a part of the settlement from the early Iron Age - La Tène period, 2000 years old, was discovered. The area designated for the research, Donji Vukojevac crossing, on the flat part of the large terrace extended 65 m to the north and 35 m to the south of the moderate slope towards the valley of the stream Koravac. Although the width of the excavation area was limited to just 10 m, a series of working and storage pits, wooden pole cuts and foundation trenches of rectangular houses were discovered on a flat terrace. The most significant discovery was made in the southern part of the excavation area on a gentle slope of the plateau, where the palisades and fundamental part of the earthen rampart 2 m wide was discovered and excavated 34 m in length. The newly discovered settlement in Donji Vukojevac can be dated to the La Tène period; it (the earthen rampart) resembles the one discovered under the building of the Zagreb City Museum in Opatička street in Zagreb Upper Town. At that time, the area south of Turopolje was occupied by Kolapiani, with the central fortified shrine on Turska kosa near Topusko. North of Turopolje the great tribe Jazi resided, and one of their centres was Sveti Petar Ludbreški. The large La Tène fortified settlement discovered in Donji Vukojevac probably belonged to an independent Pannonian tribe Andizets, who were a part of the tribal alliance of Celtic Tauriscs