Liūdiškių piliakalnio papėdės gyvenvietė

LT2009 m. lapkričio mėnesį, remiant KPD, Anykščių rajono savivaldybei bei Anykščių regioniniam parkui, vykdyti Liūdiškių piliakalnio papėdės gyvenvietės (Anykščių r., Anykščių sen.) (24540) archeologiniai tyrinėjimai. Tyrinėjimais siekta ištirti keliuko žalojamą papėdės gyvenvietės dalį šalia šios gyvenvietės R kraštą kertančio Anykščių–Molėtų plento, kad ateityje joje piliakalnio lankytojams būtų galima įrengti mašinų stovėjimo aikštelę. 2009 m. į PV nuo šio plento buvo ištirta maždaug pusė tokiai aikštelei reikalingo ploto – 150 m2 (3 plotai), rastas iki 1,25 m storio kultūrinis sluoksnis, 30 stulpaviečių, 2 židiniai, 40 individualių radinių, 557 keramikos šukės, 32 kaulai, 25 molio tinko gabaliukai, 73 geležies šlako gabalėliai [p. 82].

ENIn 2009 a total area of 150 m2 (3 areas) was excavated at the settlement site at the foot of the Liūdiškiai hillfort site (East Lithuania, Anykščiai District) and a cultural layer up to 1.25 m thick, 30 postholes, 2 fireplaces, 40 individual finds, 557 pottery sherds, 32 bones, 25 pieces of clay daub, and 73 small pieces of iron slag were found. The Liūdiškiai hillfort site has been known since the late 19th century, but it was frequently confused with a separate hill closer to Anykščiai that has no cultural layer or finds even though it is also called a hillfort site. The writer J. Biliūnas was buried on this hill in 1953 and until 1990, when the real hillfort site was found, this hill was considered to be the Liūdiškiai hillfort site. During 1990–1991 field evaluations were conducted at the hillfort and settlement sites and finds from the first half of the 1st millennium, the majority pottery, were discovered. The settlement site occupies an area of about 1.5 ha that is suitable for habitation and encircles the entire territory. Its E part near the Anykščiai–Molėtai highway has been investigated. In this part an undisturbed dark grey cultural layer up to 70 cm thick, covered by a 20–65 cm thick layer of soil that has slipped down from higher locations and contains a comparatively abundant number of finds, 2 fireplaces, and 27 postholes was found. Artefacts or parts of them that were used in everyday life predominate among the individual finds: knives and knife fragments, an awl, a needle, artefact fragments, part of a sickle, the tongue from a buckle, a fragment of a bronze band decoration, a diamond-shaped pendant, half of a pair of tweezers, a small bell, and a clay, double truncated conical spindle whorl.The bulk of the pottery consists of hand built pottery with smooth surfaces (90 % of the sherds). Somewhat more iron slag was found. The discovered material shows that in the early 2nd millennium (by approximately the 13th century) a rural agricultural settlement with an iron smelting or processing business existed beside the Liūdiškiai hillfort site. The dating of the settlement’s excavated site does not fit with the significantly earlier (2nd–3rd century) dating of the hillfort site; no suitable explanation for this exists so far.