Settlement remains from the first century B. C. at Fornače near Piran

Abstract

Test excavations at Fornače near Piran disclosed three walls built in two stages. In Roman times the structure must have been close to the seashore. A large amount of shells and snails were found in a dump among the walls. Archaeological remains from a uniform layer indicate the site was inhabited in the Is1 century B.C. (black glaze ware, amphorae of Lamboglia 2 type, an Italo-Megarian bowl, two Late Republican oil lamps, gray north Italic pottery, a strigilis ring, a fibula of Middle La Tene scheme). Some finds prove, that life continued into the Is1 century A.D. (terra sigillata, thin walled pottery, bronze coin and possibly also a fibula of Jezerine type).