Graves from the Certosa Phase in Early Iron Age Barrow 48 at Sticna

In his study on the Hallstatt barrows from Sticna published in the monograph Sticna II/2 (Ljubljana 2010), Stane Gabrovec presented in Figure 21 a table and in Figure 23 a ground plan with typical graves from four chronological phases in barrow 48. He assigned only twelve graves, all but one female, to the fourth phase, which should correspond to the Certosa phase of the Dolenjska group of the Hallstatt culture. Four of these, however, are in reality earlier. On the other hand, at least twenty-eight other Certosa phase graves from barrow 48, both female and male, should be added to the eight correctly dated graves from the fourth phase. Some of them are very rich, and have high potential for a new typological and chronological analysis of this phase.