Trijų Kryžių kalno tyrimai Vilniuje

LTTęsiant 2019 m. pradėtus Vilniaus Kalnų parko teritorijos tvarkybos darbus, 2022 m. Vilniaus piliakalnio su papiliais ir gyvenviete (UK 664) piliakalnyje, vadinamame Kreivuoju, Plikuoju, Trijų Kryžių kalnu, vykdyti žvalgomieji tyrimai ir žvalgymai. Ši Kalnų parko vieta archeologų dėmesio sulaukė ir anksčiau [p. 147].

ENIn 2022, a field survey (27 test pits totalling 82.6 m2 and an 82.6 m2 survey) was conducted in 2754 m2 at the site of the hillfort on Bald, Crooked, and Three Crosses Hills in Vilnius’s Hill Park. During the survey, a 1 m long probe was used for 10 tests at the site of a medieval rampart. The incidence, depth, and nature of the archaeologically valuable cultural layer on the hills are not uniform. On the upper enclosure, the earliest cultural layer lay under a medieval layer of sand beneath a rampart that was radiocarbon dated to the 13th-14th centuries. Traces of 16th-17lh-century activity have also survived at the site. These layers and structures were severely damaged during the creation and dismantling of a military fortress in the 19th century. To its NE, many test pits at the second enclosure revealed 13th(?)-14th century cultural layers but others only 17th-18lh-century cultural layers under thick layers of sand of fill or other origin. Only one contained an earlier find: a sherd of hand-built pottery. The test pits excavated in the ravine on the N side of the Hill of Three Crosses revealed few archaeologically significant features: in one, a diluvial layer with isolated 14th-century finds, in others later fill layers or disturbed soil, and in those on a terrace at the ravines base a layer from perhaps the 16th-17th centuries above layers with isolated 14th-15th-century finds and, at a depth of 2.6 m, an undisturbed structure of indeterminant period.