Results of the sondage of the aeneolithic settlement of Beligovo

The site is situated on the plateau, 20 metres above the right bank of the Black Timok, at about 12 km to the north-west of Zaječar. On the plateau with the dimensions 50x70 m, the investigated area included 42 square metres. On the basis of stratigraphy and the uniformity of style of the movable finds the conclusion was made that it was a shortlived one-layer settlement of Bubanj - Salcuta - Krivodol complex. In the cultural deposit with the overage depth of 59 cm the remains of an object of rectangular base were discovered. Its dimensions were 6.0 x 4.6 m. Foundation walls of the overage width of 0.80m were composed of large broken stones set above the layer of smaller pebbles. The position of the pit, the digging of which damaged the north-west corner of the object, makes it possible to distinguish two phases within the same horizon, since the archaeological material from the pit and the finds from the layer do not differ in style and typology. Content of the pit (miniature vessels, a zoomorphic figurine, miniature objects of the unknown purpose), however, indicates that it was not a waste pit, but some sort of pit of cult purpose. On the basis of typological characteristics of ceramic vessels (pots of round and pear-like shape, amphoras with longer concave neck and unprofiled rim, conical bowls of thickened rim, biconical bowls with recessed rim, kantharoi), the settlement was dated to the end of the phase Salcuta III