The object of the research were the accidentally found remnants of religious buildings in the land of Koritengrad westwards and rear to the so-called “Golemi ritli” - a sheer cliff parallel to each other, cliff in high of about 60-80 meters.
Pagan holy place (?). We can see only parts of the walls of a building in quadrangle plan.
Small Basilica. The greater part of it is destroyed before our digging. The rest shows that it might be a church of an average type under whose narthex there had been a tomb. It is dated back to IVc.A.D.
Basilica. A huge representative building built as a threekonhi basilica (A). Later it had been transformed to a three-nave basilica (B). Both buildings had been erected one after the other over the place of a supposed pagan holy place.
Basilica (A) in its plan has the form of a latin cross. As the two walls in length at their western end are damage, we can suppose that has been indented by colonnade or a few pillars in three naves - a middle one wide round 8,60 and two alongside by 1,80 to 2,00 meters. The constructure is of crumble stones soldered by white mortal and the roof had been probably of wood.
Basilica (B) is reconstructed too as a three-nave in the measurements of Basilica A. The collapsed konhi had been abandoned while on the west and is erected portico by which the problem of an yard or narthex on the west is decided in favour of a yard. The width of the middle nave is narrowed - 7 m on account of the sides - 2,80 and 3,00 m. Besides this there is a third cross line of three columns which had been a berried to the western part of the main nave. In this way we find here a rectangular place named for the narthex.
The columns had been connected among themselves by arches steppen on capitels.
Essential moment in the constructive history of the Basilica is the erection on the north of a baptisterium.
The construction is the same as of basilica A. The inside of the walls had been covered by gray white mortal plaster over which we find spots of red, black and blue paints. The roof had been wooden.
The facades had been smooth. Only the apse is decorated by under roof cornices together with an inscription in the middle. Greater attention had been given to the decoration of inner room by architectural decoration.
During this excavation we found 11 Ionik capitals. In earlier excavations there had been found three more. Their decoration is of plant geometric and animal ornaments. The relief decoration is done in low relief only over one of the narrow sides of the facade.
Further more there had been found columns, under roof and fragmentarian tiles used as a barrier. Part of the columns and the tiles had been secondary used for the basilica. A witness to this are the broken inscriptions used for the construction.
In the narthex we found a stone sarcophagus, probably of a high clergyman, may be a bishop.
The erection of the Basilica A is bated back to the Vc.A.D. It has been ruined at the beginning of VIc.A.D., while reconstructed as a three-nave basilica it got a narthex and a baptisterium. A century later the ruins had been used for other purpose.
Among the most interesting finds are: a votive tablet of Zeus and a torso of a woman’s statue.
The ceramics is represented by some remnants of vessels, dated of different epochs. Some fragments of glass vessels, windows and 3 coins.
The settlement is identified with the fortress Valve.