Dominikonų gatvė 11

LT2019 m. balandžio – 2020 m. gegužės mėnesiais Vilniaus senamiestyje pastatų komplekso, vadinamo Pociejų rūmais (UK 280), teritorijoje, Dominikonų g. 11 atlikti žvalgomieji ir detalieji tyrimai bei žvalgymai. 2019 m. balandį pradėjus žvalgomuosius tyrimus, ištirti 7 šurfai, iš viso 31,75 m2 dydžio plotas. Nuo 2019 m. lapkričio tirtų šurfų vietose kieme ir pastatų komplekso viduje pradėti detalieji tyrimai, kurių metu ištirta 18 perkasų ir 6 šurfai. Bendras detaliųjų tyrimų plotas 287,68 m2. Atliekant šiuos tyrimus, greta – pastatų komplekso patalpose, rūsiuose ir kieme vykdyti žvalgymai, kurių metu tyrinėtas apie 435 m2 plotas. Dominikonų g. 11 sklypas anksčiau archeologų netyrinėtas, tačiau aplink jį tyrimų vykdyta nemažai. [...] [p. 558].

ENIn 2019–2020, a field survey (roughly 435 m²) and excavation (287.68 m2) were conducted at Dominikonų St. 11 in Vilnius. The survey was in and beside the rooms, cellars, and courtyards of the building complex, which was known in the 17th – first half of the 18th centuries as the Vaina Palace, but which has belonged to the Pocieja family since the mid- 18th century. The investigation in the courtyard determined that a large part of it, mostly through the centre, had been disturbed in 1968–1973 during the installation of district heating and other utility lines. Despite this, some of the trenches and test pits managed to reveal undisturbed cultural layer horizons, which had formed prior to the 19th century. The investigation showed that intense economic activities had already been occurring in this area in the 15th century. Cultural layer horizons containing so-called Gothic ceramics and Spanish roof tiles, which are characteristic of the 15th century and some of which were covered with brown glaze, were recorded at a depth of 1–1.9 m in test pit 6 and trench 9 in the central and NW parts of the courtyard. The contours of a 1.2 m2 pit containing sherds of 14th–15th-century unglazed ceramics were recorded at a depth of 1.6–1.85 m in trench 1 in the SW part of the courtyard. It was determined that a fire site had existed there. The cultural layers identified in trench 9 in the central part of the courtyard are connected the activities of the royal goldsmith Mykolas Breitšneideris, who had a studio and shop there circa 1612–1645. A building foundation with steps leading to a cellar as well as the rubble dumped there after the building’s demolition were discovered at a depth of 0.8– 1.2 m in a 3.7x1.2 m area.While late 16th – first half of the 17th-century stove tiles predominated among the finds, crucibles for melting non-ferrous metals (possibly gold), which may be connected with the activities of the aforementioned goldsmith, were also found. Rich cultural layer horizons, which the collected finds indicate may be connected with the palace’s 1668–1698 reconstruction, were also recorded on the grounds of the building complex. Above these layers throughout the courtyard existed fragments of post-reconstruction stone paving, the surface of which had everywhere been badly burned and in places still lay under a thick layer of burnt material, which could have been the result of the 1748 fire when this part of Vilnius was ravaged by fire, and the palace itself was badly damaged. The 2019–2020 investigation on the plot at Dominikonų St. 11 yielded new data about the cultural layer that had formed there and augmented the available knowledge about the complex’s construction process during the 15th–18th centuries.