Didžioji gatvė 7

LT2017 m. 106 m2 plote atlikti detalieji tyrimai Didžiojoje gatvėje įrengiamų požeminių inžinerinių tinklų trasų vietose. Didžiojoje dalyje tirtų vietų fiksuotas ankstesnių žemės kasimo darbų metu suardytas ar stipriai apardytas iki 70–100 cm storio kultūrinis sluoksnis. Tai iš esmės patvirtino 2007 m. tyrimų Rotušės aikštėje ir jos prieigose rezultatus (ATL 2007 metais, 2008, p. 411–415). Aptikta santykinai nedaug XVI–XIX a. datuojamų archeologinių radinių. Archeologiniai tyrimai sklype Didžioji g. 7 ir jo artimiausioje aplinkoje, kur jie atlikti bendrame 2524 m2 plote, suteikė naujų duomenų apie šios miesto dalies raidą. Nustatyta apytikrė mūrinės statybos šioje miesto dalyje pradžia (XV a., galbūt šio amžiaus pradžia ar net XIV a.), atskleista, kad XVI a. II pusėje – XVII a. pradžioje sklypo Š dalyje buvo suformuota galbūt įtvirtinta valda. Aptiktos archeologinės struktūros leido patikslinti sklypo Didžiojoje g. 7 raidą. [...]. [Iš teksto, p. 382-383]

ENIn 2016–2017, the investigation, begun in 2014 on the plot and building at Didžioji st. 7, Vilnius, i.e. the Pacas family palace and in its vicinity, continued with the excavation of a total of 2524 m2 . The palace was identified in the 1567 plan of the city of Vilnius as the "Palatine’s house". In 1667, GDL Palatine Mykolas Pacas began to buy up the buildings that stood at this location, to join them, and to reconstruct them into a palace. During the late 17th early 19th centuries it was one of the most important palaces in Vilnius. In 2016, the largest scale investigation was conducted at the site of worthless 20th century buildings after their demolition. A relatively large quantity of masonry structures were discovered in the trenches excavated in the SW part of the plot and three stone paving levels were recorded. The stone paving dates (from the highest, which was discovered at a depth of 70–100 cm) to the second half late 17th century (and is connected with the creation of the Pacas palace), the first half of the 17th century (the period up to 1655, which is connected with the bourse building that stood in this part of the present-day plot), and the 16th century. The fragmentally surviving, first half of the 17th century paving, it is thought, could have been a street or alley surface. The older, 16th and first half of the 17th century stone paving was disturbed in the plot when the wooden water pipe was laid. The water line branch dates to the late 17th century. The water line trench was dug down to the natural sand level and while the wooden pipes have not survived, the metal pipe couplings were discovered in water line trench. Many signs of digging, wooden artefacts, and wooden structures were revealed in the natural soil, which was reached at a depth of 2.6–3.4 m in the trenches excavated in the SW part of the plot.Among the most important fragments of an 1748–1832 outbuilding’s remnants and arched foundations, from which it was determined that the building had been 22.5 x 8.5 m in size, are the remains of a ceramics kiln dating to the period of the Pacas palace’s construction (beginning in 1677). Another interesting discovered structure is the remains of a masonry wall dating to the second half of the 16th early 17th century. It is a wall remnant from a building that has not survived and the lower part of the wall that joined that building to the former palace of Grigalius Astikas. The part of the building that stood in the NW part of the plot was 26.5 x 10.5 m in size while the perimeter was at least 42.5 m long. It is likely that a fortified property had been created at this location using fortress principles. The cultural layer in the NW part of the plot was 3.3–3.4 m thick, its earliest horizons dating to the 14th–15th centuries. Sunken objects and fragmentary masonry walls were also discovered in the natural soil. Masonry cellar wall fragments, which were the earliest discovered on the plot and date to the 15th or even the 14th century, were found in a cellar room created later in the W part of the stables during the Pacas palace period (after 1677). A former floor-stone paving, the floor of vanished wooden or half-timber buildings, which had been laid using bricks and ceramic floor tiles, was unearthed in the building’s inner courtyard. The remains of stoves and other microstructures were also discovered. An isolated burial containing a 14–16 year old adolescent skeleton was found in the deepest part of trench 17. [From the publication]