Kukuliškių piliakalnio aplinkos žvalgymai

LT2018 m. lapkričio mėnesį BRIAI vykdė žvalgymus Kukuliškių piliakalnio (UK 41075) (Klaipėdos r., Kretingalės sen.) teritorijoje ir jo aplinkoje. 2017 m. tyrimų metu nustatyta, jog piliakalnis datuojamas VIII–V a. pr. Kr. Žvalgymų tikslas buvo išsiaiškinti, ar piliakalnio aplinkoje yra išlikusių archeologinio pobūdžio vertybių. Kaip parodė 2017 m. žvalgomieji tyrimai, paviršiaus žvalgymai Kukuliškių piliakalnio aikštelėje ir jo aplinkoje nėra efektyvūs, nes kultūrinis sluoksnis glūdi po eolinio smėlio sluoksniu, kuris vietomis siekia net 70 cm (ATL 2017 metais, 2018, p. 115–119). Tad aplinkoje archeologinių objektų galima aptikti tik su kalamųjų zondų pagalba ir/ar skenuojant žemės paviršių geofizikiniais prietaisais. Dėl šios priežasties 2018 m. tyrimų strategija buvo paremta dviem etapais: žemės paviršiaus skenavimu georadaru ir geologinių zondų kalimu. [...]. [Iš teksto, p. 82-83]

ENDuring the 2017 investigation of Kukuliškiai hillfort it was determined that people lived there during the 8th–5th centuries bc. Around the hillfort there are no known archaeological heritage sites; thus the purpose of the 2018 survey was to ascertain whether they exist in the vicinity of the hillfort. The investigation’s strategy was based on two stages: scanning the ground’s surface with georadar and driving geological probes. A roughly 2850 m long segment was scanned using georadar, which created 36 profiles, and 65 geological probes were driven. Roughly 34 000 m2 were surveyed. The investigation of the surrounding area was divided into three zones. After performing the surface scanning and probing it was revealed that to the E and SE of Kukuliškiai hillfort the adjacent land was damp. The discovered peat layers show that damp places existed at that location and the watery grey sand shows that springs or shallow bodies of water existed there. These locations where there were bodies of water are visible even now: the relief is sunken and the soil wet and swampy. The layers of aeolian sand are 0.3–1.4 m thick. The layers of peaty soil and grey sand discovered under these sediments show that the former ground’s surface, which formed after the glaciation, probably remained unchanged until the arrival of aeolian sand. No clear evidence of human activity was found in these layers. The radargrams showed that in the S–SE part of the surveyed territory, there were ditches, which became indistinguishable in the visible landscape after the arrival of the aeolian sand. The ditches bound the territory on the S and SE, forming an almost closed area. The anthropological layers discovered at a depth of 40–135 cm in profile 27 show that intense human activity occurred there. The inhabited territory was bounded by deep ditches and must have formed a continuous territory with the hillfort.The newly discovered layers and georadar data show that this territory must have formed a joint complex with the hillfort. [From the publication]