OCRA
The gateway between the Mediterranean and Central Europe

CONTENTS

View of the northwest part of the Pivka basin. In the background Nanos and the Trnovo plateau, to the far left lies the Razdrto pass, to the far right Hrušica. Photo: F. Novak.

• Abbreviations
• Foreword
• Geographic and historic representation of Razdrto and the Pivka basin
• Literary sources on Ocra
• Archaeological sites in Razdrto and its vicinity
• 1989 rescue archaeological excavation
• Goli vrh
  • Fieldwork method
  • Fieldwork results
    • Ditch
    • Surface
  • Chronology of the objects
  • Conclusions
• Mandrga
  • Fieldwork methods
  • Fieldwork results
  • Ditch
  • Surface
  • Analysis of structures
  • Small finds analysis
  • Relative chronology for 2nd and 1st century BC
  • Metal objects
  • Pottery
    • Black-slip pottery
    • Oil lamps
    • Thin-walled pottery
    • Coarse tableware
    • Italian kitchenware
    • Celtic pottery
    • Prehistoric pottery
    • Circular discs
    • Amphorae
  • Interpretation
• Preval
  • Fieldwork methods
  • Fieldwork results
    • Burnt surface in quadrant D11
    • The road
    • Destruction layer
    • Ditch 1
    • Pit 1
    • Pit 2
    • Pit 3
    • Pit 4
    • Drainage
    • Ditch 2
    • Modern period building
    • Surface finds
  • Analysis of structures
  • Small finds analysis
    • Burnt surface in quadrant D11
    • Destruction layer
    • Ditch 1
    • Drainage
    • Surface finds
  • Interpretation
• Conclusions: Razdrto, Ocra and routes leading across the Alps
  • The Bronze and Early Iron Age in the Notranjska region
  • Late Iron Age in the Notranjska region
  • Romans at the foothills of the southeastern Alps
  • Roman traces in the Notranjska region
    • 2nd century BC
    • Late La Tène period
    • Razdrto in the La Tène period
  • Routes across the southeast Alps in the 2nd and 1st centuries BC
    • Roman roads in the Friuli Plain
    • The routes across the Carnic Alps
    • The route along the Nadiža and Soča rivers
    • The routes across the Alps and Razdrto
  • Razdrto in the Early Imperial period
  • The new road network from the Augustan period onwards
  • Razdrto in the Late Roman period
• Bibliogaphy
• Catalogue
  • Introduction
  • Ceramic fabrics
  • Black-slip pottery
  • Terra sigillata
  • Sarius cups
  • Thin-walled pottery
  • Oil lamps
  • Coarse tableware
  • Kitchenware
  • Ceramic rings
  • Amphorae
  • Description of the objects
    • Translations
    • Abbreviations
    • Goli vrh
    • Mandrga
    • Preval
• Plates
• Appendix

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2009, (Opera Instituti Archaeologici Sloveniae, 17), 248 pgs., 64 colour photos, 66 b-w drawings, photos, graphs and maps,13 tables, 52 plates, 20 x 29 cm, hardback, ISBN 978-961-254-163-7.

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