Simno Švč. Mergelės Marijos Ėmimo į dangų bažnyčios šventorius

LT2017 m. Simno Švč. Mergelės Marijos Ėmimo į dangų bažnyčios (UK 852) (Alytaus r., Simno sen.) parapija pradėjo statyti taką bažnyčios šventoriuje neatlikusi būtinųjų archeologinių tyrimų. Mechanizuotai šalinant velėną ir esamas dangas, buvo atidengti žmonių kaulai iš suardytų palaidojimų. Tako įrengimo darbai buvo sustabdyti ir gegužės-liepos mėnesiais atlikti tyrimai. Simno Švč. Mergelės Marijos Ėmimo į dangų bažnyčios šventoriuje archeologiniai tyrimai vykdyti tik 1992 m. Vadovaujant D. Baliliūnaitei nustatyta, kad bažnyčios pamatai įkasti į 1,6–2,1 m gylį, kultūriniai sluoksniai supiltiniai, datuojami XVI-XX a. Aptikti 8 kapai, 3 iš jų datuoti XVII a. pabaiga (ATL 1992 ir 1993 me - tais, 1994, p. 208–210). [...] [p. 260].

ENIn 2017, a field survey was conducted at the site of a footpath being laid in the churchyard of the Church of the Assumption in Simnas (Alytus district, Southwest Lithuania) and the discovered graves were excavated. Three trial trenches (a total of 30 m2 ) were excavated, roughly 740 m2 surveyed, and 14 graves excavated. The work was conducted down to a planned depth of 40-50 cm. The majority of the graves had been disturbed in digging pits for later burials or during other earthwork in the churchyard. The excavated graves were concentrated on the NW side of the church (opposite the main façade) and on its SE side (beyond the apse). The individuals had been interred in coffins with their heads to the W or NW except in burial 3, where a child had been laid with his head to the SE. Grave goods were discovered in only three graves: a rosary in the hip area in burial 5, blue glass beads in the head area in burial 6, and a badly eroded Alexander Jagiellon (or Sigismund I the Old) halfgroat in the area of the right shoulder in burial 11. No grave goods were discovered in the other burials. The chronology of the burials encompasses the 16th first half of the 19th century. The finds discovered during the survey were from destroyed burials and consist of a thimble, a medal, a crotal, knife parts, twelve 17th-century coins, 31 nails (some from coffins), and other artefact fragments.