Zagradie Prehistoric Settlement in Lin Village
Fshati: Lin, Njësia Administrative: Udënisht, Bashkia: Pogradec
The prehistoric settlement of Zagradie lies on the lakeshore, on the eastern side of the Lin peninsula, at a spot the villagers call “Zagraqe”. It was discovered at the end of the 1960s during a survey expedition by staff of the local Pogradec museum. Evidence of its existence survives today in a group of 7 Copper Age stone tools kept in the Pogradec Museum: two chisels, three axe-hammers, one axe and one unfinished perforated tool. In the Iron Age the settlement was abandoned by its inhabitants, who moved to the upper part of the peninsula, to what local people now call the hill of “Shën Thanas” (St Athanasius). This is attested by archaeological finds from this part of the peninsula, such as clay vessels and vessel fragments in ash-grey and in brown to glossy black, as well as fragments of “Devoll” pottery dating from the first half of the 1st millennium BC – in other words, the Illyrian Pre-Urban period.
Monument record
- Ownership
- State-owned
- Current use
- Cultural site
- Original use
- Settlement
- Dating
- 2nd millennium BC
- Declared a monument
- Ministry of Education and Culture, Decision no. 1886, dated 10/06/1973
- Monument category
- I – First
- Current condition
- The settlement cannot be visited today, as it is now covered by the waters of the lake
- Distance from Pogradec city centre
- 20 km to the north.
What it offers
- Cultural Monument
