Archaeological research of the church of St Martin in Prozorje in 2018

Tijekom rujna i listopada 2018. godine nastavljena su arheološka istraživanja crkve Sv. Martina na lokalitetu Prozorje (Martin-Breg) u Dugom Selu. U ovoj kampanji završena su istraživanja broda crkve (sonda VI), sve do glinenoga sloja zdravice, a pritom su pronađena i istražena 43 groba. U 21 grobu pronađeni su posebni nalazi, pri čemu se većinom radi o dijelovima odjeće i obuće (gumbi, kopče, ušice i kukice, nazuvke i sl.) te nabožnim predmetima (medaljice, križevi, krunice i brevari) koji su pronađeni u njih 13, dok je novac pronađen u tri groba. Nije pronađeno mnogo nakita, no ističe se zlatni prsten sa staklenom krunom koji je pronađen unutar groba 275. Značajan nalaz – unutar korpusa novovjekovnih nalaza – su i sljepoočničarke pronađene uz fragmentarne ostatke lubanje u grobu 293, od kojih su neke imale završetak u obliku slova S. Kripta izrađena od opeka, koja se nalazila u središtu broda, istražena je i ispražnjena do kraja – čini se da su ostaci pokojnika iz kripte bili ekshumirani, vjerojatno kada je crkva bila napuštena, no pronađeni su brojni nalazi. Otkrivena su i dva zida izgrađena od nepravilnoga kamenja (SJ 1598 i 1603) koji izlaze ispod zapadnoga zida broda crkve te se pružaju u smjeru istoka. Za sada funkcija tih zidova nije jasna, vjerojatno je riječ o ostacima starije građevine.The archaeological excavations of the church of St Martin on the site of Prozorje (Martin-Breg) in Dugo Selo were continued in September and October 2018. This campaign completed the excavations in the church nave (trench VI) up to the clay layer of untouched soil, finding and exploring 43 graves. This year’s 21 graves contained separate finds, which were mostly items of clothing and footwear (buttons, buckles, pins and hooks, slippers etc.) and religious items (medals, crosses, rosaries, breverls), which were found in 13 graves, while money was found in three graves. Not much jewellery has been found; one outstanding piece is a gold ring with a glass crown, found inside grave 275. Significant finds within the corpus of modern finds are the temple hair ornaments found next to the fragmented remains of a skull in grave 293, some of them with S-shaped terminals. The brick crypt in the middle of the nave was completely explored and emptied; the remains of the dead from the crypt seem to have been exhumed, probably when the church was abandoned, but there were numerous finds anyway. Also, the excavations uncovered two walls of irregular stones (SU 1598 and 1603), starting under the western wall of the church nave and stretching towards the east; it is still unclear what they were for, but they are probably the remains of an older structure