{"id":11632,"date":"2026-03-11T09:45:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T08:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fondacijabassania.org\/en\/?p=11632"},"modified":"2026-03-11T09:45:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T08:45:15","slug":"the-dvor-necropolis-near-visoko-five-medieval-tombstones-on-an-illyrian-tumulus-and-clarification-of-literary-confusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fondacijabassania.org\/en\/blog\/the-dvor-necropolis-near-visoko-five-medieval-tombstones-on-an-illyrian-tumulus-and-clarification-of-literary-confusion\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dvor Necropolis near Visoko: Five Medieval Tombstones on an Illyrian Tumulus and Clarification of Literary Confusion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In the area of Dvor, located about 6 km from Visoko at the turnoff from Buci toward Kralupi, the existence of medieval tombstones has been recorded across three locations. Regarding the sites in the Dvor and Ginje areas, a problematic issue arises with the nomenclature, as \u0160. Be\u0161lagi\u0107 mentions a site named Gora\u0161nica in both the Dvor and Ginje regions. We could attribute a portion of Be\u0161lagi\u0107’s data to this specific site\u2014namely, his mention that five large medieval tombstones are located beneath the Gora\u0161nica hill. P. An\u0111eli\u0107 also adopted this data regarding Dvor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During a field tour, D\u017eeneta Lepi\u0107 from the Regional Museum in Visoko recorded five medieval tombstones: two in the shape of chests, while three are of indeterminate shape. They feature varying orientations: one north-west and two northwest-southeast. The material from which they are crafted is conglomerate, and the necropolis is situated atop an Illyrian tumulus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Be\u0161lagi\u0107 created a confusion here because he clearly did not visit these necropolises himself; instead, he took data from the Visoko Municipal Assembly and mixed up this necropolis with the one on the hill above (the Gora\u0161nica\/Glavica site), which we visited two years ago. There is a local tradition associated with that hill suggesting that a church once stood there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is interesting that the Dvor location itself sits on a leveled elevation; there is a hypothesis that a manor (dvor<\/em>) may have once stood there, but without archaeological excavations, this remains difficult to prove.<\/p>\n\n\n

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