Kurtuvėnų dvaro sodyba

LTsniui atstatanti čia buvusius statinius. 2013 m. Kurtuvėnuose archeologiniai tyrimai atlikti 4 vietose. Kurtuvėnų miestelio turgaus aikštės pakraščiuose bei bažnyčios prieigose preparuoti 2008 m. ištirto magazino pamatai (59 m2 plotas). Ratinės pastato vietoje, jo aplinkoje ir inžinerinių tinklų trasose ištirtas 238 m2 plotas. 2013 m. tyrinėtoje Kurtuvėnų dvaro sodybos teritorijoje, perkasose 40−42 rasta 12 titnago dirbinių. Jų analizę atliko ir interpretavo KU doktorantas G. Slahas. Tarp titnago dirbinių buvo kaltelis, strėlės antgalio įkotės fragmentas, gremžtukas, grąžtelis, skeltės dalis, du skaldytiniai ir keletas nenustatytos paskirties dirbinių. Kaltelį, įkotės fragmentą, gremžtuką ir grąžtelį–plėstuvą galima priskirti konkretiems nuoskalinės kilmės dirbiniams. Dar du dirbiniai buvo skaldytiniai, kiti radiniai priskirti nuoskaloms, susijusioms su ugnies įžiebimu. 2013 m. Kurtuvėnų dvaro sodyboje rasta nemažai monetų iš XVII−XX a. laikotarpio. Tarp jų buvo LDK, Lenkijos, Prūsijos, Švedijos, Rusijos monetų ir vienas skaičiavimo žetonas (E. Remeco duomenys). Tarp Kurtuvėnų dvaro sodybos radinių buvo 3072 kaulai ir jų fragmentai. Atlikus XVI–XIX a. kaulinės kolekcijos analizę (prof. L. Daugnora) nustatyta, kad dvaro teritorijoje vyravo naminiai gyvuliai (galvijai, avys/ožkos, kiaulės ir arkliai). Nustatyti fragmentiški laukinės faunos (briedžiai, elniai), naminių ir laukinių paukščių bei pavieniai žuvų kaulai. [...] [p. 203, 215-216].

ENIn 2013, investigations were conducted at four locations in Kurtuvėnai (Šiauliai district, N Lithuania). A storeroom foundation (59 m2) was unearthed on the edges of the Kurtuvėnai market square and the approaches to the church. 238 m2 was excavated at the site of the coach house, in its vicinity, and along utility line routes, 872 m2 at the site of old officina building, which was identified in 2011, and 8 m2 on the power cable route being laid between the stables and the coach house buildings. A total of 1177 m2 were excavated at the Kurtuvėnai manor site in 2013. A 1.8 m thick cultural layer formed from the remains of a demolished clay stove tipped into a pit was discovered in test pit 14A in the town square. The layer contained 38 sherds of rustic pottery, 40 fragments of "pot-shaped" stove tiles (Topfkacheln), fragments of flat and Dutch roof tiles, 15 animal bones, 2 pieces of slag, and 229 burnt clay fragments from a 17th century clay stove. Its foundations, 18th-19th centuries pottery, stove tiles, iron artefacts, and other household rubbish were unearthed at the coach house site. The site of an old 16th century building was discovered below it in the SW part of the coach house. The 30−40 cm thick mixed cultural layer that had formed in it contained three pottery kilns and abundant 16th-17th centuries finds: "pot-shaped" stove tiles with square and cruciform mouths, ceramic ornaments from a clay stove, rustic and glazed pottery, etc.. The kilns’ fill contained glazed and unglazed "pot-shaped" stove tiles with stylised blossoms on the bottom, scaled frieze (Frieskacheln)-cornice (Gesimskacheln) stove tiles, and panel stove tiles (Blattkacheln) with a hunting scene.The test pits and trench excavated at the utility line sites contained only the remains of 18th-20th centuries stone paving and foundations as well as individual contemporaneous finds that found their way there with ash and rubbish. Only test pit 20G in the NE part of the coach house contained a 30 cm thick cultural layer with very abundant finds (3 sherds of rustic pottery, 16 of unglazed, 55 of glazed, 1 of faience, 8 of porcelain, 8 of ‘pot-shaped’ stove tiles, and 245 of panel stove tiles, and 1 of a Dutch roof tile, 14 nails, 2 cast pot parts, etc.). This was probably a rubbish pit near the house. An 872 m2 area was excavated down to a depth of 40−50 cm at the site of old officina, which was a very large (50x15 m (18 m wide with the porch)) building that was oriented NE−SW with a porch at each end on the NW side. The building had nine rooms, six of them at the SW end, two at the NE, and an antechamber between them. The diverse finds discovered in the building allow one to state that the old officina was the manor administration office during the period the manor belonged to the Nagurskis family (18th century). It was the site of the steward’s living quarters (well-equipped premises, tile stoves, porcelain and glass vessels), monetary operations (coins, jetons), manor guards’ living quarters, and a weapons’ storeroom (flintlock strikers, wheels), perhaps guest rooms, and storerooms (lead seals). 12 flint artefacts ascribable to the upper palaeolithic-early mesolithic, bronze age, iron age, and even the modern age were found in trenches 40–42.