Garnių piliakalnis I

LTAnkstyviausi vėlyvojo bronzos amžiaus piliakalniai Lietuvoje reti, daugiausia jų aptinkama šalies ŠR dalyje. Paskutinį kartą mokslinius tyrimus Sokiškių, Kerelių ir Juodonių piliakalniuose XX a. 9 dešimtmetyje vykdė E. Grigalavičienė (LA, t. 5, V., 1986, p. 89–138; LA, t. 8, V., 1992, p. 85–105; LA, t. 9, V., 1992, p. 41–91). Po jų nauji duomenys, papildantys mokslinę informaciją apie ankstyviausią piliakalnių raidos etapą, renkami daugiausia atliekant muziejuose saugomų radinių antrines analizes ar vykdant archeologinius tyrimus paveldosaugos tikslais (žr. ATL 2011 metais, 2012, p. 56–59). 2016 m. papildomai žvalgytas paviršius, atlikti geofizikiniai tyrimai magnetometru (atliko R. Vengalis) 1800 m2 plote, atsitiktiniais ir sisteminga gręžinių eile surinkti pirminiai duomenys apie kultūrinio sluoksnio lokalizaciją bei atlikti ardomieji tyrimai dviejose piliakalnio aikštelės vietose, iš viso 24 m2 plote. [...]. [Iš teksto, p. 69]

ENIn the summer of 2016, an investigation was begun at Garniai (Utena district) hillfort I. Prior to the excavation, a magnetic survey (1800 m2 ) was conducted and the hillfort enclosure was evaluated using boreholes. In the end, two trenches (a total of 24 m2 ) were excavated. During the investigation, it was determined that the cultural layer had survived only in the enclosure’s S part, where one feature was discovered in trench 1 and where almost all of the archaeological, zooarchaeological, and ecofact finds were collected: 495 (of the 524 collected in 2016) sherds of early brushed pottery, about 1100 bone fragments, and 18 small finds. A find concentration was noted in the SW part of the trench, but all of the finds were clearly fragmented, only in exceptional cases were larger potsherds discovered. Bone (a double bone button–tutulus, spearhead, pin, and other worked bone fragments with no clear purpose), stone (an axe, whetstones, a handstone, two flint flakes, and one with no clear purpose), and earthenware (fragments of an axe casting mould) artefacts and artefact fragments were also collected in the trench. In trench 2 the finds were collected only in animal burrows as the cultural layer at this location had been destroyed down to natural soil. In order to improve the hillfort’s chronology, the herbivore osteological material was AMS dated: fragments of a sheep/goat M3 tooth, a bovid horn, and a large ruminant long bone. All of the dates indicate an 800–540 bc period. [From the publication]