Lavšići is a village located approximately six kilometers east of Olovo. According to the 1910 Dictionary of Populated Places in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Lavšići was recorded as a hamlet of the village of Berisalići, while the 1977 census lists it as an independent settlement.
At the crossroads of village paths, at the Mramorje site, lies a necropolis containing 46 medieval tombstones: four slabs, one chest, and 41 gabled roofs. Two slabs and five gabled roofs are decorated. Notable decorative motifs include spirals, twisted cords, small crosses within circles, crescent moons, and short swords. One gabled roof bears an inscription which, in transcription, reads: “A se leži Dabiživu na svojoj zemlji, na plemenitoj, a ne omrь (umrь) si vse (sve)” (“Here lies Dabiživ on his own land, on noble land, and he did not die for all”).
The monuments are oriented in three geographical directions: west–east, north–south, and northwest–southeast, as they are arranged almost circularly around an old Illyrian tumulus. The necropolis remained unknown to researchers Šefik Bešlagić and Alojz Benac; it was first recorded by Ibrahim Pašić in his 2017 book Od stećka do nišana (From the Stećak to the Nišan).
Approximately 50 meters west of the necropolis are the remains of three small nišans (early Ottoman tombstones) and three graves enclosed by stone santrač (rectangular stone frames). The size of the burial plots, the appearance, and the depth to which the stone frames have sunken indicate a very old mezaristan (Muslim cemetery) that was in use until a century or more ago, as evidenced by the remains of one nišan featuring a fez. The graves with stone frames are oriented toward the southeast.
Analysis of their orientation reveals a certain hesitation among the early Muslim inhabitants of Lavšići, who were caught between the burial orientation traditions of their ancestors—visible in the nearby necropolis of medieval tombstones—and the Islamic orientation toward the Qibla. Seven graves enclosed by stone frames are oriented in a northeast–southwest direction. Among them is a single enclosed space for three graves, suggesting a family or communal tomb.
The cemetery also contains one large nišan measuring 200 × 42 cm, which is broken and partially sunken into the ground. In 2008, the Commission to Preserve National Monuments of Bosnia and Herzegovina designated this complex of medieval tombstones and nišans as a National Monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Today, the site is tidy and well-maintained, with regularly mowed grass—likely the work of a local resident whose house is located directly next to the necropolis.
