Rat Hillfort Archaeological Site, Ložišća

The Rat hillfort is located in the western part of the island of Brač, above the village of Ložišća in the municipality of Milna. Visitors value it as one of the best-preserved hillfort settlements on the central Dalmatian islands.

The first archaeological investigations were carried out in 1957 by the Archaeological Museum in Split, and systematic investigations began in 2007 as part of a scientific project of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences in Split. Dwellings from the late Bronze Age were uncovered, built of interwoven branches plastered with clay. Among the locally made ceramic vessels were also found fragments of fine ware imported from the Greek and Italic world during the last millennium BC. The inhabitants had their access to the sea from the Vičja luka valley, where in 1908 Iron Age tombs of members of the higher social classes were found, with rich metal and ceramic finds.

The site is a protected cultural property, entered in the Register of Cultural Goods of the Republic of Croatia under the code Z-5891, in Split-Dalmatia County.

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