Survey of the medieval cemetery at Mašeta in Fazlići, Travnik

Abstract

Fazlići village is placed in the narrow area which was very populated in the Middle Ages. That is proved by many medieval cemeteries. However we don’t find this settlement in late medieval or in the early Ottoman historical sources. In southeastern part of the village at one of the hills in the site of Mašeta there is a cemetery with stećci about 140 meters long and 20 meters wide. About this cemetery scientific literature brought different information regarding their destruction and abandonment. There are 23 stećci on this site today. It can be presumed that even more tombstones were here considering its size. Remained monuments at the cemetery are partly destroyed, but the number of 14 big ridge tombstones shows that population of this area was capable to erect these monuments. By the documenting of stećci 7 graves and three burials in the stone coffins were revealed in the wide area between stećci. Their placement and burial rite are typical for late medieval cemeteries.