Radiniai iš 2008 m. tyrinėjimų sklype A. Jakšto gatvėje 6

LTKauno senamiesčio 43 kvartalo sklypo A. Jakšto gatvės 6 2008 m. tyrinėjimų rezultatai jau buvo paskelbti (žr. ATL 2008 metais, V., 2009, p. 324–327). Tačiau šiame straipsnyje tik bendriausiais bruožais užsiminta apie tyrinėtame plote surastus XIV–XVIII a. archeologinius radinius, nes tuo metu jie nebuvo iki galo sutvarkyti. Nors tai daugeliu atvejų gerai pažįstama ir dažnai Kauno senamiestyje randama archeologinė medžiaga, jos gausa ir kai kurių radinių unikalumas paskatino parašyti papildomą straipsnį, ir bent iš dalies pristatyti tyrinėjimų metu aptikus radinius, kurie aprašyti pagal tyrinėtame sklype užfiksuotus 4 kultūrinių sluoksnių horizontus: XIV a. vidurio – XV a., XV a. pabaigos – XVI a. I pusės, XVI a. vidurio – XVII a. I pusės ir XVII a. II pusės – XVIII a. kultūriniai sluoksniai [p. 328].

ENA brief account of the results of the excavation at A. Jakšto Street 6 in Kaunas Old Town was already published last year in ATL 2008 (Vilnius, 2009, pp. 324–327). The abundance of the finds and the uniqueness of some of them prompted the preparation of this article describing the finds according to the four mid-14th–18th-century cultural layer horizons recorded in the excavated plot. In the mid-14th–15th-century horizon, sherds of hand built and frequently decorated cooking pots, thrown vessels fired in reduction, and ‘pot-shaped’ stove tiles (Topfkacheln) predominated. In the late 15th – first half of the 16th-century horizon, sherds of cooking pots, thrown household ceramics, and the edges, walls, and bottoms of ‘potshaped’ stove tiles were found. The greater part of the ‘pot-shaped’ stove tiles were fired in oxidation although tiles fired in reduction were also found. Only one part of a panel stove tile (Blattkachel) frame and a fragment of a niche stove tile (Nischenkachel) with green and yellow glaze were found. No sherds of ornamented cooking pots were encountered in this horizon. In the mid-16th – first half of the 17th-century horizon, sherds of panel and ‘pot-shaped’ stove tiles as well as of very diverse household ceramics were found. The ‘pot-shaped’ stove tiles were thrown, only fired in oxidation, on occasion had green and brown glaze, and had bottoms decorated with multi-petalled rosettes. The panel stove tiles had floral and geometric ornamentation and frequently polychrome glaze.Thrown ceramics fired in oxidation predominated, although a large part of the finds also consisted of traditional, hand built cooking pot sherds. The exceptional finds were fragments of human clay figurines and clay casting moulds. The panel stove tiles from late 16th – first half of the 17th-century ovens had green glaze and floral ornamentation. The stove tiles from second half of the 17th-century ovens were rectangular, had green glaze, and were decorated with pairs of birds and floral patterns. The exceptional find from this period was a hand built roasting pan.