The thesis analyses Late Iron and Early Roman phases of a multi-period site, discovered in 2021 and 2022 under the old sports of the Elementary School Mengeš at the foothill of Gobavica hill. We present the stratigraphic picture and typology of finds, which mainly consists of local cooking pottery. One phase of a Late La Téne settlement was recognized and dated to the second half of the 1st cent. BC. After a relatively brief hiatus, the site was inhabited again, presumably around the beginningo of the 1st cent. AD. Three phases belong to the Roman period; the first is dated to the first half of the 1st cent. AD and the second to the second half of the 1st or first half of the 2nd cent., while the third phase remains undated. Presumably older forms of Lamboglia 2 type amphorae and a shard of black-slipped ware point to trade exchanges between the inhabitants of the La Téne settlement. Possible remains of metallurgic activities were recognized; these were, according to finds of slag, performed in both periods. Some individual finds also point to fishing and weaving.
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