Megalithic Portal: Latest from Serbia

Popovica Hillfort

Anne T — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 14:48:30 GMT

]]>Visible today as a low defensive wall whose lowest courses sit on a Late Eneolithic (Copper Age) floor more than 5,000 years old, and a 55 by 35 metre plateau that has now produced one of the few coherent multi-layered hillfort sequences in eastern Serbia.

City Museum Vrsac

Andy B — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 17:58:32 GMT

]]>One of the oldest museums in Serbia, the City Museum Vrsac has been collecting since 1882, became a municipal museum in 1894 on the proposal of Julius Frisch, and opened to the public in 1898. Its main building, Konkordija, was built in 1847 to a design by the architect Franz Brandeis, originally as a hotel.

Banjska Stena Bronze Age Settlement

Anne T — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 17:57:10 GMT

]]>Key new sites from Eastern Serbia and Hungary - details on this page in the comments. The only long-occupied, multi-layered settlement among the Bronze Age sites of the Bor-Zaječar region. Located on the hill named "spa rock" above Gamzigradska Banja, looking west across the Crni Timok valley toward Gamzigrad. Together with the Magura cemetery on a nearby hill, Banjska Stena is a site typical of the Gamzigrad culture.

Židovar Archaeological Site

Anne T — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 06:45:39 GMT

]]>An archaeological site and settlement near Vršac, Serbia. This is a multi-period tell on a loess (loosely packed wind blown sediment) plateau commanding the Karaš valley. It was given protected status as one of Serbia's "Archaeological Sites of Exceptional Importance" in 1990, as the site has more than two thousand years of fortified occupation on a single hill above the village of Orešac, north of the Banat plain.

Coka Njica Copper Smelting Settlement

Anne T — Sat, 04 Jul 2026 08:02:47 GMT

]]>This site is important for Serbia, as excavations which began in 2019 pushed the start of large-scale copper smelting in north-eastern Serbia back to around 1900 BCE, two centuries earlier than previously thought, and Čoka Njica is one of the three settlements from which accurate dating evidence has been gathered.

Borsko Jezero Bronze Age Necropolis

Anne T — Thu, 02 Jul 2026 07:15:26 GMT

]]>Once on a dry hillside terrace, now partly submerged beneath the artificial reservoir that supplies the RTB Bor copper smelter, this Bronze Age cremation cemetery at Borsko Jezero held at least 32 urn graves built in the same regional tradition as those at Trnjane and Hajdučka Česma. The dam built in 1959 by damming the Zlotska, Valja Dzoni and Marec streams raised the water level over graves that had stood on dry land for around 3,500 years, and changing reservoir levels have steadily eroded them since. New Bayesian radiocarbon in 2025 dated the cemetery between 1840 and 1715 BCE.

Zlot's Cave (Lazareva Pećina)

Anne T — Wed, 01 Jul 2026 07:19:57 GMT

]]>The longest known cave in Serbia, with 9.4 km of explored passages, and one of the most important prehistoric copper-working sites in the central Balkans. Excavations recovered about 50 copper objects of late Eneolithic (Copper Age) and Early Bronze Age date, including chisels, awls, needles, flat axes and ornaments, found alongside Vinča-related pottery and a complete Bronze Age belt of eight linked bronze spirals, indicating a trading network extending as far as the Aegean. If you can help with photographs of the copper (or other) artefacts found in this cave, please do submit them to our page - thanks.

Ruzana Bronze Age Metal Working Complex

Anne T — Tue, 30 Jun 2026 07:49:38 GMT

]]>A Bronze Age copper furnace found beneath a family's back garden in Serbia - more our page. Asignificant Bronze Age copper-smelting complex uncovered in 2013 in the gardens of two neighbouring households at Banjsko Polje, a hamlet of Brestovac near the city of Bor. The Vasić family found prehistoric pottery and slag while digging house foundations, prompting rescue excavations that revealed a horseshoe-shaped furnace floor, an adjacent slag pit, more than 10 kg of slag including pieces weighing up to 3 kg, fragments of pyraunoi (Bronze Age pottery) and the malachite-stained bones of animals butchered beside the operation. Comparison of radiocarbon dating from a neighbouring Trnjane site place this primitive copper smelting between approximately 1900 and 1600 BCE.

Krivljski Kamen-Bunar Bronze Age Necropolis

Anne T — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 07:58:18 GMT

]]>Barrow Cemetery in Serbia

Hajducka Cesma Bronze Age Necropolis

Anne T — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 07:13:50 GMT

]]>Cremation Urn Cemetery in Serbia

Gamzigradska Banja Bronze Age Necropolis

Anne T — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 08:06:42 GMT

]]>This Bronze Age cemetery sits on Magura Hill above the spa village of Gamzigradska Banja, in the Crni Timok valley between Bor and Zaječar. Together with the nearby hilltop settlement of Banjska Stena, Magura serves as a reference site for the whole of the Gamzigrad culture.

Trnjane Bronze Age Settlement and Necropolis

Anne T — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 07:13:53 GMT

]]>First discovered in 1984, limited archaeological investigation so far has found this urn necropolis contains forty-three urn graves enclosed in circular stone rings, set alongside a Bronze Age copper-smelting workshop that produced roughly 20,000 kg of slag, Trnjane is the earliest investigated Bronze Age necropolis in eastern Serbia and described as 'the anchor site' for copper-producing communities working the Bor ore deposits more than 3,500 years ago.

Coka lu Balas Early Neolithic Settlement

Anne T — Sat, 27 Jun 2026 07:03:05 GMT

Ancient Village or Settlement in Serbia

Selevac Neolithic Village

Anne T — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 06:23:53 GMT

Ancient Village or Settlement in Serbia

At Palaeolithic Settlement

Anne T — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:06:02 GMT

]]>Please note that the co-ordinates of this site are given as the nearest town, not the village - is anyone able to help give a much more accurate location, please? Thank you.. Ancient Village or Settlement in Serbia