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<< Our Photo Pages >> Zvonigrad - Hillfort in Bosnia

Submitted by GeoHerzegovina on Friday, 19 April 2013  Page Views: 4331

Iron Age and Later PrehistorySite Name: Zvonigrad
Country: Bosnia
NOTE: This site is 42.405 km away from the location you searched for.

Type: Hillfort
Nearest Town: Mostar  Nearest Village: Gornji Polog
Latitude: 43.379539N  Longitude: 17.690500E
Condition:
5Perfect
4Almost Perfect
3Reasonable but with some damage
2Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site
1Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks
0No data.
-1Completely destroyed
2 Ambience:
5Superb
4Good
3Ordinary
2Not Good
1Awful
0No data.
5 Access:
5Can be driven to, probably with disabled access
4Short walk on a footpath
3Requiring a bit more of a walk
2A long walk
1In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find
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Zvonigrad
Zvonigrad submitted by GeoHerzegovina : Zvonigrad-Illyrian iron age hillfort Look from west lateral part of massive (destroyed by some other Illyrians or Romans) drystone walls which have in bottom parts the megalithic (here not visible) limestone blocks (Vote or comment on this photo)
The recently identified remains of an Iron Age hillfort built by the ancient Illyrian hellenic 'tribe' Daorsi - who are better known for their ancient iron age town - Daorson or Osanici (gr: ΔΑΟΡΣΩΝ) near Stolac in southeast Herzegovina.

This hillfort is a real mystery and this location is not investigated hardly at all, but many treasure hunters have been here and there has been illegal digging. There are some parts of the walls with preserved megalithic large blocks of cretaceous limestone.

Most interesting is the geomorphology and geology of the site, which tells that ancient Illyrians had a very good knowledge of geology or stone characteristics. So, they built this hillfort or mayby town-Zvonigrad on a place with characteristic of limestone layers which are the best natural position wachtowers and fortress.

Location: 7.6 km WNW from Mostar city. 200-500 m W from Gornji Polog village, southern Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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Zvonigrad
Zvonigrad submitted by GeoHerzegovina : Zvonigrad-Illyrian iron age hillfort Look on the one newly discovered elongated upright standing megalithic limestone block (maybe grave or something else?) (Vote or comment on this photo)

Zvonigrad - fortification wall
Zvonigrad - fortification wall submitted by GeoHerzegovina : Site in Bosnia (Vote or comment on this photo)

Zvonigrad - fortification wall
Zvonigrad - fortification wall submitted by GeoHerzegovina (Vote or comment on this photo)

Zvonigrad - fortification wall
Zvonigrad - fortification wall submitted by GeoHerzegovina (Vote or comment on this photo)

Zvonigrad - fortification wall
Zvonigrad - fortification wall submitted by GeoHerzegovina

Zvonigrad - fortification wall
Zvonigrad - fortification wall submitted by GeoHerzegovina

Zvonigrad - fortification wall
Zvonigrad - fortification wall submitted by GeoHerzegovina

Zvonigrad - fortification wall
Zvonigrad - fortification wall submitted by GeoHerzegovina

Zvonigrad - fortification wall
Zvonigrad - fortification wall submitted by GeoHerzegovina : Site in Bosnia

Zvonigrad - fortification wall
Zvonigrad - fortification wall submitted by GeoHerzegovina

Zvonigrad - fortification wall
Zvonigrad - fortification wall submitted by GeoHerzegovina

Zvonigrad - fortification wall
Zvonigrad - fortification wall submitted by GeoHerzegovina : Site in Bosnia

Zvonigrad
Zvonigrad submitted by GeoHerzegovina : Zvonigrad-Illyrian iron age hillfort Probably the illyrian throne on wich were sitting the some of the Illyrians and look to the southern and lower parts of terrain

Zvonigrad
Zvonigrad submitted by GeoHerzegovina : Zvonigrad Newly discovered elongated upright standing megalithic limestone block

Zvonigrad
Zvonigrad submitted by GeoHerzegovina : near Illyrian iron age hillfort Zvonigrad Look on the one newly discovered elongated upright standing megalithic limestone block (maybe grave or something else?)

Zvonigrad
Zvonigrad submitted by GeoHerzegovina : Zvonigrad-Illyrian iron age hillfort Look to the fantastic beautiful landscape with dry canyon of cretaceous limestones and karst field:Mostarsko blato down

Zvonigrad
Zvonigrad submitted by GeoHerzegovina : Zvonigrad-Illyrian iron age hillfort Look to the fantastic beautiful landscape with dry canyon of cretaceous limestones and karst field:Mostarsko blato down

Zvonigrad
Zvonigrad submitted by GeoHerzegovina : Zvonigrad-Illyrian iron age hillfort Discovered iron nail

Zvonigrad
Zvonigrad submitted by GeoHerzegovina : Look on the one newly discovered elongated upright standing megalithic limestone block (maybe grave or something else?)

Zvonigrad
Zvonigrad submitted by GeoHerzegovina : Zvonigrad-Illyrian iron age hillfort Same lateral west part of massive stone walls (ramparts)

Zvonigrad
Zvonigrad submitted by GeoHerzegovina : Zvonigrad-Illyrian iron age hillfort look to the central pyramid-like structure or part of the whole hillfort

Zvonigrad
Zvonigrad submitted by GeoHerzegovina : Zvonigrad-Illyrian iron age hillfort: 7,6 km WNW from Mostar city, 200-500 m W from Gornji Polog village, southern Bosnia and Herzegovina. Iron age remains of the hillfort builded (not prooved exactly till-now) by ancient illyrian hellenic 'tribe' or ethnos - DAORSI - who was better known by ancient iron age town - Daorson or Osanici (gr: ΔΑΟΡΣΩΝ) near Stolac town in southeast Herz...

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Re: Zvonigrad by Anonymous on Monday, 02 March 2015
It isn't Croatia, but Bosnia and Herzegovina. [corrected]
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Re: Zvonigrad by Andy B on Friday, 19 April 2013
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More details in GeoHerzegovina's blog (In Croatian)
http://hercegovina-geoarheo.blogspot.co.uk/2013/04/ekskluzivno-megalitski-kiklopski.html

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Recently we are increasingly witnessing that the old 'famous' Illyrian city Daorson west of Stolac, with its megalithic or Cyclopean walls , becoming more familiar not only in the local (Herzegovina) sense, but in much broader terms, resulting in even visits by high-ranking public figures, politicians and other dignitaries from other countries, this first-class archaeological tourist destination. Because of its unique architecture, manifested in the walls may be 2500 years old and more, built of huge multi-ton blocks of limestone-carved in the form of a site with a minimum of 4 corners and perfect complex on each other without mortar, the great-city already has deservedly took the title or name - Herzegovina Mycenae .

Many will say that Daorson - archaeological site that is in the area of the Greek (Hellenic) Illyrian period and form of building on top of all the 'similar' archaeological sites in the region including all the countries of the former Yugoslavia. But whether Daorson only such place with cyclopean Hellenistic walls in this Bosnian-Herzegovinian areas? Certainly not. The site which some archaeologists have previously identified as a possible other Daorson is Zvonigrad site which has already been partially, but not fully described in this web site:
http://fosilihercegovina.blogspot.co.uk/2012/09/arheologija-i-geologija-nove-spoznaje-o.html

As can be seen in this earlier research visit, the site Zvonigrad revealed specific knowledge of applied geology in making walls and the central fortress Zvonigrad. In this visit have not noticed a more prominent and visible remains Cyclopaean wall and the former reports were denied it - until now. In addition, all curious, especially lovers of antiques, nature and archeology of the region, have an exclusive opportunity to see a detailed photographic record of megalithic walls Zvonigrad - a form very similar to those in DAORSON with Illyrian-Greek ancient cities in Albania and southern Illyria.
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