Pod, Bosnia and Herzegovina explained

Pod
Native Name:Gradina Pod
Map Type:Bosnia and Herzegovina
Map Dot Label:Gradina Pod
Coordinates:44.0539°N 17.4239°W

Pod is an archeological site in the municipality of Bugojno, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is a prehistoric settlement and hill fort located about 40 m above the bed of the river, a tributary of the Vrbas, on a slope of Mountain Koprivnica above the main road leading from Bugojno to Gornji Vakuf, in the settlement of Čipuljić, today an integral part of Bugojno.

The fortified site was first inhabited in the early Bronze Age and even eneolithic (2500 to 1700 BC).After the Bronze Age it was uninhabited for four centuries, until repopulated in the early Iron Age (~700 BC) till the turn of the 4th and 3rd centuries BCE. Stratified materials from Pod defined Central Bosnian cultural group of the late Bronze Age. It was declared a National Monument of Bosnia and Herzegovina.[1]

Excavations

Archaeological excavation was undertaken there led by Branka Raunig in 1973.[2]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Commission to preserve national monuments. old.kons.gov.ba. 2020-02-09.
  2. Web site: Sjećanje na Branku Raunig (1935-2008). 2018-06-13. Zemaljski muzej Bosne i Hercegovine. bs. 2020-05-17.