Late Mediaeval Small Fortifications of Gradi？te Type (Motte) in the Wider Vicinity of Kri？evci: an Archaeological Contribution to the Knowledge about the Nobility of the Medieval Kri？evci County

Sa？etak The paper examines less known sites of gradi？te type (motte) in the area around Kri？evci, along the reaches of the Gliboki Stream and the Glogovnica River. An overview of the problems connected with typology and terminology, and the datation of this type of archaeological sites are given, with every examined site being considered separately in the context of available historical sources. Some sites were unknown until today, while a commentary on the function of the known ones as a fortified residence of noblemen from High or Late Middle Ages is given. The remnants of these forts manifest in space as lowland or highland forts of gradi？te or motte type with a prominent central elevation surrounded by a defensive system, that is a ditch and an earthen rampart (sometimes they can be surrounded with a system of ditches and ramparts). These are six sites that have the morphological features of a small fortifications of gradi？te type: on the north-eastern part of the examined area, along the Gliboki Stream and the Glogovnica River, we have Rasinja – Opoj-grad, Prkos – Gradina, Veliki Poganac – ？anac and Veliki Poganac – Gradina, while along the upper reaches of the River Glogovnica north of Kri？evci there are two sites, Osijek Vojakova？ki – Mihalj and the fort around the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Church in Donja Glogovnica. Information about Prkos – Gradina is published for the first time in this paper, while the other small fortifications of gradi？te type were more or less mentioned in literature. Information about the newly found site Cubinec – Gradina along the middle reaches of the Glogovnica River, which does not have all the elements of a small fortifications of gradi？te type due to missing a rampart and the ditch being very unemphasized, is also given