In the area of Gornji Radišići (hamlet Marići) near Ljubuški, there is the locality Mrljanovac, where the remains of graves from the developed Iron and Hellenistic periods (5th-1st century BC) were discovered. Through the Mrljanovac gorge, the fortifications of Sitomir (394 m above sea level) and Obala (369 m above sea level) were approached, which are located in prominent positions of the Butorovica mountain massif. Remains of a necropolis from the late Hellenistic period were discovered in the southern part of the Mrljanovac gorge, in the micro-locality of Grebina. The necropolis consists of a series of mass graves bordered by roughly worked monumental blocks of limestone. Individual tombs form an irregular shape of a rectangle, square, or circle, with one or more rings of architecture. The outer and inner edges are built of monumental partially worked stone blocks, while the interspace is filled with crushed / collected stone.

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