A R C H E O L O G Y
The township is located in the western part of the Liptov basin at the mouth of the stream Lupcianka. The first habitants settled in Liptovský Michal already in the Eneolithic Period. In 1930 at the locality of Kecka there was found during ploughing an eneolithic stone hatchet. In 1947 during the road building from Ružomberok to Vlašky there were dug out at the bank of Lupcianka at the location of Lány not only objects from the later period of the Baden culture but also from the period of the Lusatian culture and from the Early Middle Ages. In the nearby surroundings of the township there is located an important habitation of the Baden culture in Bešenová. Further settlement is connected to the Bronze Age and the Lusatian culture that spread during the Middle and Late Bronze Age into the vast area of the central Europe. To the oldest settlements of the so called Slovak branch of the Lusatian culture belong also the findings from Liptovský Michal. In the second half of the 19th century saved the priest Š. N. Hýroš from the terrace of his church five urns, bronze pins and a fraction of a ring. In 1956 in the parish garden it is said to be found a grave of a bended man. At the present time there is no evidence about the settlement of this locality in the time period extending from the end of the Bronze Age up to the period of the Early Middle Ages. This locality was again settled in the 9th century. Ceramic fragments from this time period were found at several locations in Liptovský Michal. In 1973 at the location of Lažtek a rescue archeological investigation took place that was connected to the motorway building. During this investigation a dugout home of a rectangular shape with rounded corners was uncovered. To the east of the township at the southwestern bank of the Bešenová reservoir there is located the gord - Gord/Šibenice/Saint Dur - that was built sometime in the 11th-12th century. In 1978 the whole area of the gord was devastated by an extensive soil exploitation. In spite of the devastation on the basis of the findings there was identified a palisade fort of the Gord coming from the 15th century. Ceramic fragments originate in the same century. An introductory miniquiz to the lecture
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