LT2016 m. gegužės–lapkričio mėnesiais UAB "Dangės krantinės" rekonstruojant ir pritaikant istorinį XIX a. vidurio sandėlį gyvenamosioms reikmėms, BRIAI tęsė archeologinius tyrimus Klaipėdos senamiesčio sklype Turgaus g. 37 (UK 27077). Tyrinėta vietovė patenka į 3 struktūriškai skirtingus istorinius-archeologinius horizontus: XVI a. II pusės-XVII a. vidurio/XVIII a. pradžios Klaipėdos senųjų evangelikų liuteronų bažnyčių aplinką, XVII–XVIII a. gynybinių įtvirtinimų kompleksą ir XIX a. sandėlio teritoriją. Jie pradėti pažinti anksčiau BRIAI vykdant tyrimus (ATL 2006 metais, 2007, p. 258–265; ATL 2010 metais, 2011, p. 343–347; ATL 2012 metais, 2013, p. 335–340; ATL 2013 metais, 2014, p. 265–274). Detalieji tyrimai apėmė rekonstruojamo istorinio sandėlio ŠR dalies vidų (plotai 33–35), buvusių pokariu pastatytų mechaninių dirbtuvių (PV) vietą (plotas 36) bei sandėlio išorės (PV) aplinką (plotas 37). Dvi pastarosios patenka į čia anksčiau stovėjusios Lietuvių bažnyčios ribas. Archeologinių tyrimų metu pavyko atskleisti naujų ir papildomų duomenų apie aptariamos vietovės raidą XVI–XX a. Dar kartą patvirtinta, kad teritorijoje vyrauja supiltinis vidutiniškai 3,5 m storio kultūrinis sluoksnis, suformuotas XVI a. II pusėje dirbtinai aukštinant žemės paviršių, prieš statant abi bažnyčias, ir XVII–XVIII a. pilant miesto bastionus. Pažymėtina, kad viršutinių XIX–XX a. sluoksnių struktūrai būdingas pylimų gruntas, susidaręs niveliuojant reljefiškai netolygią teritoriją. Tyrimų metu daugiausia archeologinių radinių surinkta iš sampilų sluoksnių. Bendrai dokumentuota daugiau kaip 5400 radinių, kurie bus perduoti MLIM. Be archeologinių radinių, surinkta įvairiarūšės medžiagos specialiesiems tyrimams. [...] [p. 222-223].
ENIn 2016, the investigation conducted on the plot at Turgaus st. 37 in Klaipėda old town in connection with the reconstruction of a mid 19th century warehouse encompassed the inside of this building (ŠR), the site of former mechanical workshops (PV), and the vicinity of the warehouse’s exterior (SW, SE, NE). A total of 891.25 m2 were excavated. A cultural layer, which had an average thickness of 3.5 m and was formed during the artificial elevation of the ground’s surface in accordance with the requirements for the construction of the church in the second half of the 16th century and the city’s arrow-headed bastions in the 17th–18th centuries, predominated in the area. After the removal of the underground liquid storage tank and the concrete block revetments at the site of former mechanical workshops, the remains of the Lithuanian Church were discovered: exterior decorative elements, pieces of flooring, an altar foundation fragment, the foundations of the church’s rear, side (SE), and interior walls, a corner (R) buttress, a side (SE) wall buttress, and beams and stones unused in the church’s construction. The stones, after the completion of the project for the reconstruction of the historical warehouse, were used to mark the contours of the Lithuanian Church on the newly landscaped plot. Because the interior and exterior part of the timber raft for the foundation of a side (NW) wall was discovered at different locations, it was determined that the church’s inside width was 13 m and its outside width 16 m.After the discovery of the front wall, the church’s complete dimensions were determined: 36 x 16 m. In investigating the church’s interior, 34 burials (three left unexcavated) were discovered in two distinct horizons. The anthropological analysis determined that they contained eight males and four females (from 18–20 to over 50 years of age), 15 children and infants (from under 1 to 10 years of age), and four indeterminate individuals. Some of the burials had grave goods: rings, brooches, pins, teardrop-shaped organic pendants with a strand of twisted yellow metal wires attached to them, and small belts. Various wooden reinforcements were also discovered in the excavated area. Some of them had existed during the period of the church’s existence, while others had been installed during the mid 17th–18th centuries during the creation of the bastion ramparts. In investigating inside the mid 19th century warehouse, relicts attesting at the building’s activities at that time were discovered: an authentic inscription that had survived on upper joists and a herring sorting and storage system. The latter included two longitudinal rows of three vats (six total) set into the ground with a masonry gutter below one row and a wooden one below the other and open timber upper gutters set at the level of the warehouse floor.