Tomo gatvė 26 ir 28

LT2020 m. liepos–spalio ir 2021 m. kovo mėnesiais atlikti detalieji tyrimai Klaipėdoje, Tomo g. 26 ir 28 projektuojamo viešbučio vietoje. Sklypų istorinius tyrimus atliko V. Safronovas, atidengtų ankstesnio užstatymo fragmentų architektūrinius tyrimus atliko UAB „Atodangos“ (R. Zilinskas), fotogrametrinius matavimus atliko UAB „Terra modus“ (M. Putrimas). Sklypai yra Klaipėdos senojo miesto vietos su priemiesčiais (UK 27077) ir Klaipėdos senamiesčio (UK 16075) ŠR dalies teritorijoje, apie 10 m į PR nuo buvusios Šv. Jono bažnyčios, kitoje Tomo gatvės pusėje ir į PV nuo vadinamojo Jono kalnelio – buvusio Klaipėdos miesto įtvirtinimo bastioninio pylimo ir ravelino. 2020–2021 m. ištirtas 458,71 m2 plotas, padalintas į 4 perkasas: perkasa 1 buvo 112,5 m2 ploto, perkasa 2 – 116,55 m2, perkasa 3 – 117,55 m2 ir perkasa 4 – 112,11 m2. [...] [p. 343].

ENIn 2020–2021, an excavation (4 areas totalling 458.71 m2) was conducted at Tomo St. 26 and 28, the site, according to the historical data, in 1781 of the city’s first school for boys. A 1942 aerial photograph of the school building and adjacent buildings shows the school building still intact. It was apparently damaged by artillery fire in January 1945 near the end of WWII and, like many other derelict buildings in the city, was demolished after the war. From a depth of 10–80 cm from the present- day ground’s surface, all of the trenches yielded fragments of the school building’s foundations, which run parallel to present-day Tomo Street, i.e., NE–SW and SE–NW. The investigation also revealed 2 basements floors, cobble paving, a wooden structure, and fragments of 2 foundations, which are unrelated to the old school building, likely being older than it, and probably oriented to the old bed of the Danė. The 0.25–3 m tall foundation fragments from both the inner and outer walls uncovered by the investigation give building dimensions of 40.6x11.1m, but it may extend beyond the investigation site and even the plot. Seven school building development and construction stages were identified: the first, a 17th century wooden structure on 2 stone and red brick foundation fragments, is unrelated to the school building; the second dates from the 18th century until 1781, the third to 1781, the fourth to 1781– 1854, the fifth, following the city’s great fire, to 1854–1858, the sixth, the last essential stage, to 1867, and the seventh to 1867–1940 when only minor repairs and structural changes were made. All post-1940 work is totally unrelated to the school building. The excavation revealed a 2.5–4.2 m thick cultural layer with most of the finds dating to the 18th–19th and 17th–18th centuries and only a few items to the late 16th century.Of the 3492 catalogued finds, sherds of household pottery and stove tiles predominate, but there are also rarer items like a gilded bell-shaped artefact, a bone comb, 3 17th-century brass jetons strung on brass wire, and a 16th–17th-century fishing net weight.