Banjani - Cultural Heritage in Banjani

Cultural Heritage in Banjani

Cultural heritage includes a variety of subjects and objects of the human hand in the past sought to perpetuate the spiritual reasons. And more broadly, the fact remains and objects from the past that were created from practical life reasons may also be counted among the monuments. Therefore, the millstone of the Crvena Stijena (Red rock) dating from the Bronze Age, more broadly, also the subject of the monumental nature. Heritage value are those of the ancient water - ublovi, which has more space to Banjani, and date back to antiquity, but were built later.

Traces of circular stone structures on the tops of some hills, so-called fort, are scattered throughout Banjani, a date from the late Bronze and early Iron Age. Shares their purpose is not to date been clarified, but claim that they did not have housing. Probably it comes to religious works, although they do not exclude the defensive character.

Ancient grave lined with piles of old roads through Banjani and its environment. Science are related to the early Iron Age Hallstatt, but some are created, it is claimed, before, and there are those who natale later. Many of them, one less, for centuries are the ruined. Yet many of them survived. Some are big, real small stone hills, four or five meters high, and perhaps more in diameter on the ground and one hundred meters. Their purpose is defined: to the ancestral grave-tribal leader and ancient Balkan epihors, and Encheleans. In fact, usually attributed to the Illyrians. Those that were searched in neighboring Herzegovina shows that in each of them has at least one grave, facing in different directions, whereas in a larger and more graves. Beside the skeleton were found bronze and iron objects - weapons of warriors, women and jewellery.

People have noticed that in this region has a few character in stone. For some, it is quite clear that it is in the distant past, wrote out the human hand, while the second dilemma: signs that the hand of a man entering the line or in rocks formed by nature. Archaeologists have found a Latin inscription in stones in the village of Riječani (castrum Saltua) from Roman times.