Prehistory

In the neighbourhood of Poreč, near Valkarin are twelve prehistoric settlements. One group of three is named Picugi. The middle is 119 meter and the other 110 and 112 meters high.  Each has a urn necropolis from the Iron Age. The hilltops were inhabited from 3000 years BC till the Roman Period. In 1883 where here found 500 tombs from the 6th and 5th century BC, and a lot of ceramic urns, vases, bronze pots, helmets and jewellery.

The other group The Mordeco exist also from three hilltops. The northern is named Mordele (91 meters high) , the southern 103 meters and named Big St. Angel and the other Mali Sv. Andjelo  and is 88 meters high. These are too prehistoric settlements. On the foot and on the topt are large stone blocksprehistoric settlements.

On the top of the Mali Sveti Andjelo are the stone blocks in half a circle so it could be a religious site and is made a comparison with “stonehenge”.

 

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Name: Picugi – Mordele – Mali Sveti Andjelo – Big St. Angel

Place: Valkarin – (Poreč) (more…)

In Mušego in the neighbourhood of the hillfort Monkadonja is a group of 13 stone tumuli. They are built in the 2nd and first millennium BC from the Middle Bronze Age by the Illyrions.

Place: Mušego – (Rovinj)

Monkadonja ia a prehistoric hillfort on a 81 meter high hilltop, and inhabited in the period between 2000 and 12oo BC.  This hillfort is situated about 5 km east from Rovinj. After the discovering in 1953  there are made extensive excavations,which ended at 2002.

The settlement is surrounded by a massive dry wall. inside the wall the settlement is divided  in a lower town with storehouses, and a upper town with the acropolis. Outside the northern gate there is a natural cave.

In various parts  of the settlement are boards with pictures and descriptions.

Name: Monkadonja

Place: Rovinj