Earlychristianity basilica Doci

At the Doci site in Gornja Vitina in 1956, D. Sergejevski excavated the remains of an early Christian church 13.10 x 11.37 m, oriented east-west. The church consisted of a nave with an apse and side rooms on the south and north sides. A double vaulted tomb was discovered in the southern part, and the remains of the altar base in the central part. The walls have been preserved with an average height of up to half a meter. They are built of local limestone, with mortar but no stone processing. No baptistery or elements of architectural decoration and church furniture were found at that stage of the excavation. In 2015, students of the Department of Archeology, Faculty of Philosophy in Mostar, under the leadership of B. Marijanović, carried out an audit of the basilica. A baptismal well was found in the northern room, a tomb in the central room and two late antique tombs on the south side. The central tomb has an entrance architecture in the opus mixtum technique, with alternating use of brick and stone blocks, which began to be used at the end of the imperial period. An impost capital with the motif of a cross and a peacock was also found, which according to its characteristics can be classified as a product of the Naronitan workshops 5-6. c. Five hundred meters west of the church in Doci, in a position then called Borasi, today Šipkova glavica, at the end of the 19th century. Truhelka discovered a small single-nave church (oratory) 8.20 x 5.70 m. It had an apse that was semicircular on the inside and polygonal on the outside. Inside the room, part of the architectural decoration of the altar was found. Later, several imposts and window columns were removed from the pile of materials next to the church. Subsequent audits during 2013 and 2014 revealed a late antique tomb, and below it two tombs from the outside of an older ancient building. Apparently, the oratorio found by Truhelka was part of a much larger late antique complex. Among the small material, roof tiles, fragments of amphorae, ceramic dishes and glass predominate.