REPORT ABOUT THE ARCHAELOGICAL SUPERVISION ON THE SITE OF PAVLINSKI TRG IN SENJ (NOVEMBER 2019 - JUNE 2020)

Arheološki nadzor nad građevinskim radovima uređenja Pavlinskog trga u Senju proveo je Gradski muzej Senj. Stručna voditeljica predmetnoga nadzora bila je Blaženka Ljubović, mag. educ. hist. i mag. archeol. uz konzervatorski nadzor Vinka Madirace, dipl. arheolog iz Konzervatorskog odjela u Gospiću. Navedeni građevinski radovi provedeni su u razdoblju od studenog 2019. do kraja lipnja 2020. godine. U prošlosti, prema povijesnim izvorima, Pavlinski trg u Senju je lokacija na kojoj se nalazio dominikanski, a potom i pavlinski samostan s crkvom sv. Nikole, koji je zbog trošnosti porušen 1874. godine s dijelom gradskog bedema u predjelu starih morskih vrata. Predmet ovog rada arheološki je nadzor na zaštiti lokaliteta Pavlinski trg (prostora nekadašnje pavlinske crkve sv. Nikole i samostana u Senju) tijekom građevinskih radova na uređenju Trga. Nadzor se vršio u svrhu prikupljanja svih bitnih informacija o kulturnim slojevima i arheološkim nalazima, posebice zato što je tijekom ranijih arheoloških istraživanja evidentiran arheološki materijal (grobni nalazi) iz pojedinih povijesnih razdoblja crkveno-samostanskog kompleksa, kao i nepokretna arhitektonska struktura, arheološki zanimljiva, na određenim dubinama od razine pločnika Pavlinskog trga. Cilj arheološkog nadzora bilo je utvrđivanje gabarita crkve i samostana te zaštita eventualnih grobova unutar crkve od moguće devastacije.
The archaeological supervision of the construction works on Pavlinski trg (Pauline Square) in Senj was carried out by Senj Town Museum. The specialist leader of the supervision concerned was Blaženka Ljubović, MSc. Education (History) and MSc. Archaeology, along with the conservation supervision of Vinko Madiraca, BSc. an archaeologist from the Conservation Department in Gospić. The mentioned construction works were carried out in the period from November 2019 to the end of June 2020. In the past, according to historical sources, Pavlinski trg in Senj was the location of a Dominican and then Pauline monastery with the Church of St Nicholas, which due to its state of disrepair was demolished in 1874 with part of the city wall in the area of the old sea gate. The subject of this paper is the archaeological supervision of the protection of the Pavlinski trg site (the area of the former Pauline Church of St Nicholas and the monastery in Senj) during the construction works of the landscaping of the square. Supervision was carried out in order to collect all the relevant information about the cultural strata and archaeological finds, especially because during earlier archaeological research archaeological material (grave finds) was documented from certain historical periods of the church-monastery complex, as well as immovable architectural structure, archaeologically interesting, at certain depths from the level of the pavement of Pavlinski trg. The aim of the archaeological supervision was to determine the dimensions of the church and monastery and to protect any possible graves inside the church from possible destruction.