Over 500 wooden stakes and ancient artifacts discovered in Lake Ohrid

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 Over 500 piles and ancient artifacts discovered in Vrbnik, experts suspect that houses could be found.

The underwater archaeological excavations will continue until September 2021 at the Vrbnik site, which is located on the west bank of Lake Ohrid at the exit of the city of Struga near the Kalishta settlement.

The excavation work began on August 12th, and so far over 500 piles have been discovered and an area of about 500 square meters has been documented, which on average corresponds to about a tenth of the entire settlement. Experts involved in the project stated that they expect to find several houses under water. It is only a matter of time, they say.


"The aim of this year's research is to take samples from the site in previously explored and documented parts of the settlement over a period of 20 days from August to September. Parallel to the underwater research, dendrochronological and carbon analyzes are being prepared in the premises of the Nikola Nezlobinski Natural Science Museum in Struga", informs the Archaeological Museum.

The first information about the site was collected in the 80s of the last century, and systematic archaeological excavations have been carried out continuously since 1998.


Previous excavations have uncovered an extremely rich movable archaeological material consisting of ceramic fragments, whole vessels, ceramic coils, biconic vertebrae, circular weights and various bronze objects: bracelets with folded ends, twisted feathers, double needles, iron blades and iron hooks. The objects were discovered in a layer of mud about 20 cm thick and were spread over the entire study area. Although most of the pottery is fragmented, they are shapes that have been in use for a long time. According to the archaeological finds, the age of this settlement is dated to the 7th and 6th centuries BC.

The project is supported by the National Institute "Archaeological Museum of the Republic of Macedonia" in cooperation with the Natural Science Museum Nikola Nezlobinski - Struga and the University of Bern, the Institute for Archaeological Sciences in Switzerland, where dendrochronological analyzes are carried out.


Involved in the project are Aleksandra Papazovska, project manager, Valentina Todoroska, project co-manager, Bojan Taneski, underwater archaeologist, Svetlana Vasilevska, archaeologist, Andrej Mackovski, doctoral student in dendrochronology and diver of the diving club "Norkach" and "Skaut" in Struga.

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