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AMS, HISTORICAL, AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL DATING OF OPONICE CASTLE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 August 2023

Barbora Styková Open the ORCID record for Barbora Styková [Opens in a new window] ,
Matej Styk Open the ORCID record for Matej Styk [Opens in a new window] ,
Dominik Repka Open the ORCID record for Dominik Repka [Opens in a new window] ,
Ivo Světlík Open the ORCID record for Ivo Světlík [Opens in a new window] ,
Kateřina Pachnerová Brabcová Open the ORCID record for Kateřina Pachnerová Brabcová [Opens in a new window] ,
Markéta Petrová Open the ORCID record for Markéta Petrová [Opens in a new window]  and
Mária Hajnalová
Barbora Styková*
Affiliation:
CRL, Department of Radiation Dosimetry, Nuclear Physics Institute of the CAS, Na Truhlarce 39/64, CZ-180 86 Praha, Czech Republic
Matej Styk
Affiliation:
CRL, Department of Radiation Dosimetry, Nuclear Physics Institute of the CAS, Na Truhlarce 39/64, CZ-180 86 Praha, Czech Republic Department of Archaeology, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Hodzova 1, SK-949 01 Nitra, Slovak Republic
Dominik Repka
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Hodzova 1, SK-949 01 Nitra, Slovak Republic
Ivo Světlík
Affiliation:
CRL, Department of Radiation Dosimetry, Nuclear Physics Institute of the CAS, Na Truhlarce 39/64, CZ-180 86 Praha, Czech Republic
Kateřina Pachnerová Brabcová
Affiliation:
CRL, Department of Radiation Dosimetry, Nuclear Physics Institute of the CAS, Na Truhlarce 39/64, CZ-180 86 Praha, Czech Republic
Markéta Petrová
Affiliation:
CRL, Department of Radiation Dosimetry, Nuclear Physics Institute of the CAS, Na Truhlarce 39/64, CZ-180 86 Praha, Czech Republic Faculty of Nuclear Sciences and Physicsl Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Břehová 7, 115 19 Praha, Czech Republic
Mária Hajnalová
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Hodzova 1, SK-949 01 Nitra, Slovak Republic
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*Corresponding author. Email: barbora.stykova@gmail.com
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Abstract

The fifth season of excavations of Oponice Castle in 2020 was located in the lower castle’s courtyard. The research led to discovery of an original clay floor being heavily burned with charred plank and a rectangular stone-brick construction. The construction has collapsed upper part with a fallen low brick arch. The whole area was covered with numerous stove tiles and one clay mold for the production of stove tiles. The construction was identified as a pottery kiln dated to the second half of the 16th until the first half of the 17th century AD by the findings from excavated layer identified to the kiln destruction. Also, written sources mention a large fire in 1645 which destroyed the castle. The aim of this article is to use different methods of dating and refine the chronology of the context through microarchaeology and Bayesian modeling. For these purposes different types of samples were collected. The sampling focused on site formation process determination of pottery kiln use and the way of its destruction. Applying Bayesian analysis improved overall dating, through modeled time interval of the three individual sequences and helped recreated historical events during the period, when the calibration curve fluctuates.

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AMS radiocarbon datingBayesian modelingEarly Modern Agesouthwestern Slovakiastratigraphic sequence
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Radiocarbon , First View , pp. 1 - 13
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© The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of University of Arizona

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Selected Papers from the 24th Radiocarbon and 10th Radiocarbon & Archaeology International Conferences, Zurich, Switzerland, 11–16 Sept. 2022

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