Sudotos archeologinio komplekso tyrimai

LTKompleksą sudaro Sudotos 2-a akmens amžiaus gyvenvietė (IP2421/A), Sudotos senovės gyvenvietė-kaimavietė (AV-2301) ir Sudotos pilkapynas IV (IP-3004/A). 2008m. tyrimus finansavo KPD ir LAD pagal Archeologinio ir povandeninio vertingųjų savybių pobūdžio objektų ir vietovių atskleidimo programą. Iš viso ištirtas apie 125 m2 dydžio plotas. Kadangi šis paminklų kompleksas pasižymi itin sudėtinga stratigrafija ir planigrafija, todėl radinių fiksacijai skirtas ypatingas dėmesys. Archeologiniai tyrimai šiame komplekse atliekami taikant naujausią metodiką, todėl baigus tirti šį objektą ir visus radinių, objektų bei kitus išmatavimus suvedus į kompiuterines duomenų bazes, bus galima jį visiškai rekonstruoti virtualioje erdvėje [p. 35].

ENThe Sudota archaeological complex (Švenčionys District) consists of a Stone Age settlement, barrow cemetery, and late village site. In 2008 excavations were conducted at 2 different locations (a total area of about 125 m2). In one of the trenches, all of the cultural layers had been dug up during the construction of a railway in the mid-19th century. Meanwhile the cultural layer from a Stone Age settlement discovered in the other trench was about 10–20 cm thick. The horizons from a 4th–7th-century barrow cemetery and a late village site that were above it had been badly eroded during later aeolian processes. About 700 flint-lithic finds were discovered in the Stone Age cultural horizon. The majority of them date to the turn of the Neolithic age and are attributed to the Kunda–Narva cultures. But isolated finds from both earlier and later periods were encountered. About 40 small pottery sherds attributable to the late village site (18th – mid-19th century) and several tens of small cremated bones, which should be connected with cremations from the eroded barrows, were also discovered. It is regrettable that the KPD Vilnius Territorial Division is not interested in preserving the archaeological heritage since in the autumn of 2008 the territory of this archaeological complex was barbarically damaged in laying a railway fibre optic cable. A total of about several hundred square metres was completely or partially destroyed. I do not think that such a unique multi-layer Lithuanian prehistoric object merits such protection by the state institutions.