A team of young archaeologists from the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo, led by Professor Edin Bujak, is conducting research of the locality Okladci in Ustikolina.
At the invitation of his colleague Adi Dzemidzic, the archaeologists from Gorazde, and with the consent of the owner of the parcel in Ustikolina, family Omerbasic, Professor Bujak and a group of students are exploring this site for a few days. In the third layer of the surface, which archaeologists call “cultural layer”, they found pieces of beautifully decorated pottery and Roman coins among other findings.
“We found here the most significant archaeological findings of this campaign, we found the remains of a Roman building material, the remains of bones, probably animals that humans hunted back than in these areas, and we have the remains of Roman coins, which will help us determine the date of the entire site. This is probably the period between the second and fourth centuries AD,” said Professor Edin Bujak, master of archeology.
This locality showed that the upper Drina valley is real archaeological treasury because the results of archaeological research in the previous period indicate the fact that considerable number of inhabitants lived in these areas in the first centuries of our era.
For young students, future archaeologists, the area of Ustikolina is a major challenge in terms of investigation.
“It is our fourth day on the field and we have found a lot. There are Roman coins that tell us that here was a small settlement in the period from the 2nd to the 4th century and we can already talk about Roman administration in this area. We found a few Roman bricks and other Roman construction materials,” said Adi Dzemidzic, an archaeologist from Gorazde.
Found money certainly has historic value, but in general state of moneyless today, it indicates that people from here lived well in the distant past.
“This is especially important, this whole territory is important for BiH archeology, and it opens better preconditions for exploitation of these areas and the development of further archaeological excavations, especially if we consider the existence of a significant Roman building, ancient villa with mosaics, which is located across the street, in Gromila,” said professor Edin Bujak.
(Source: E. A./Klix.ba)
