Kvietinių senovės gyvenvietė ir pilkapynas

LT2015 m. Kvietinių pilkapyno apsaugos zonoje (Klaipėdos r., Dauparų-Kvietinių sen.) vykdyti detalieji archeologiniai tyrimai prieš atliekant magistralinio dujotiekio Klaipėda– Kuršėnai statybos darbus. Tyrimų būtinumas ir apimtys buvo grindžiami 2014 m. D. Kontrimo atliktų žvalgomųjų tyrimų duomenimis (ATL 2014 metais, V., 2015, p. 46–51). 2015 m. ištirtas 177 m ilgio, 12 m pločio, iš viso 1958,35 m2 dydžio vientisas plotas. Apibendrinant tyrimų rezultatus, galima aiškiai išskirti 3 pagrindinius šioje vietoje užfiksuotus žmonių veiklos etapus: 1) XX a., 2) I tūkst. pr. Kr. degintiniai kapai, 3) akmens ir bronzos amžiaus gyvenvietės. 2015 m. tyrimų metu aptikta 10 degintinių kapų. Rasti kapai koncentravosi centrinėje ir R tirto ploto dalyje. [...] [p. 74-76].

ENIn 2015, an excavation was conducted in the protection zone of Kvietiniai barrow cemetery (Klaipėda district) prior to construction work on the Klaipėda-Kuršėnai gas transmission pipeline. A single 177 x 12 m area (a total of 1958.35 m2 ) was excavated. The investigation site is on a terrace on the right bank of the Minija Valley. During the investigation, ten cremations dating to the second half of the 1st millennium bc were discovered. The burials were of two types: pit cremations and urn cremations. The grave goods were very rare, only one fragment of an iron artefact and potsherds having been found. Judging from the arrangement of the burials and the fragments of stone structures that had survived around them, it is possible to conjecture that the burials had been made in barrows, the mounds of which had not been survived to the present day. At the same location, an old settlement, in which at least four periods of habitation can be distinguished, was discovered. The earliest should be dated to the late mesolithic, but the mere tens of finds that can be ascribed to this period fail to show that intensive activities occurred within the boundaries of the excavated area. The second period should be associated with the neolithic, more specifically, the corded ware culture. The next period dates to the late neolithic/early bronze age and the fourth, the least visible period, probably to the late bronze age. The material from the different periods is clearly distinguishable spatially as concentrations had formed at different locations in the excavated area.