Late Antiquity Depot in Gojava in Hvar

Sa？etak In the course of the preliminary works for the ？Park“ hotel restauration in 2004, a small but rich late Antiquity ceramics discovery was found between two sterile clay layers in the garden in front of the hotel. It mostly consisted of amphorae fragments, bigger utensils and tegulas. As a rule, the fragments are of sharp edges, which means that they have neither been rolled over nor exposed to atmosphere for a long time. The found coins date the layer to the second half of the 4thc. The remnants were not accompanied by the architectural remains. However, it does not exclude the possibility that they might be found at the upper elevation of the site, on the premises of the ？Park“ hotel itself, or somewhat eastward on the place of the ？Palace“ hotel. On the contrary, the relatively large number of tegulas, imbrexes and floor tiles, fragments of suspensions, tubulae and mortar, unquestionably indicate traces of object in close vicinity. On the whole, it is a Late Antiquity depot from the 4th to the 5th. c., which had been buried either by natural phenomena or human hand, probably in the same late Antiquity time, and covered by a sterile clay layer. It is significant that the depot corresponds in time with the earliest Late Antiquity layer in Hvar, that was identified during archaeological exploring of Hvar Arsenal in 1994 and 1996. These archaeologic findings in Gojava additionally support the thesis of the Late Antiquity town of Hvar (Lysina?), and discovering the coins it affirmatively dates its appearance to the second half of the 4th c