ACTIVITIES OF THE SECTOR FOR PREVENTION AND INSPECTION SUPERVISION

Acting on the received reports for illegal digs, the Inspection service within the Office for Protection of Cultural Heritage has inspected several archaeological sites, namely:

- The St. Ilija site in Stip where it determined the damages on the concrete batch at the entrance corridor on the west side of the site.

- The archaeological site “Mogila” in the area of the village Umlena-Pehcevo and it concluded that a dig has been carried out on a natural rock in which no cultural layers have been recorded. Moreover the extracted material from the dig has not shown any remaining objects.

- The archaeological site “Gradista”, the village Lozani in the Municipality of Mogila – Bitola , where it concluded the damages on the upper cultural layers in which fragments of settlement ceramics from the early roman period were recorded. Moreover, the inspection concluded and recorded two fragments with archaeological elements, with ionic order base.

Considering that these are illegal digs which are detrimental to archaeological sites, the Office for Protection of Cultural Heritage in cooperation with the competent services of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, is implementing the necessary activities for tracing and sanctioning the perpetrators.

„Ormankov Tomb” the village of Tremnik, Negotino

After receiving a report from the people in the village of Tremnik in the region of Negotino regarding the valuable archaeological objects from the time in which Phillip II and Alexander III of Macedonia ruled which were accidently discovered, the inspection services within the Office for Protection of Cultural Heritage and the Museum in Negotino inspected and organised a spot survey in the area called „Ormankov Tomb”, where archaeological objects were discovered for the purposes of additional research of the site and its cultural and chronological defining. The following findings were discovered in the area that was subject to the research, namely: fibulae, applications, pendants and coins with the images of Phillip II and Alexander III of Macedonia , which chronologically belong to the IV BC. The artefacts that were inadvertently discovered which indicate that this is another significant archaeological site on the territory of the Republic of Macedonia were called in by the inhabitants of the village of Tremnik in the area of Negotino to the Negotino Museum without any financial compensation for the inadvertent discovery.