EARLY ROMAN FINDS FROM KRANJ

Milan Sagadin

Numerous salvage archaeological excavations have been conducted in the last thirteen years. Besides the prevailing Late Roman settlement finds culturally and temporally linked with the well known cemetery at Lajh, the existence of a early Roman settlement phase has been established as well. It is especially characterized by imported sigillata and similar ceramic finds from the North Italian workshops, belonging to the mid- and late Augustan periods. The analogies with the early Emona and Celeia layers, especially complexes III and IV from Štaleški vrh, are distinctive. Among the ceramic materials are also rare finds of small Norican silver coins.

On the poster are represented the principal types of the early Roman ceramics from Kranj, published for the first time, and the trading links indicated by those finds. The settlement in Kranj is remarkable for its subsistence, i.e. in the 2nd and the 3rd centuries it completely vanished to be revitalized in the 4th century and fully flourishing in the 5th and 6th centuries!

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