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Major excavations will take place in the spring. So far, only exploratory excavations will be carried out.
“Our goal this year is to determine the boundaries of the cemetery, an area where remains can still be found and where they probably no longer exist. The road will be able to continue work to the place where we will no longer find the remains, and where they will be found, the repairs. they will have to stop for a while, ”says Karolis Duderis, an archaeologist from Biržai.
According to him, after the exploration flyovers are unveiled and possible burial boundaries are established, a plan for a more detailed investigation will be drawn up next spring. The remains will need to be removed from this area before the street reconstruction can continue.
“We will try to determine the preliminary area of the cemetery on the road to the street to see how much they will have to dig next year. In the absence of such investigations, it is likely that the graves will be dug up again when the roadside returns to Vasario Street 16. Starting the excavator with a light hand would destroy them, ”explains K. Duderis.
The old plans would be revealed Dovilas Petrulis, an archaeologist from the Panevėžys Museum of Local Customs who will carry out exploratory excavations on the sidewalk, has already discovered destroyed remains at this location.
In his opinion, the cemetery, which had been built in this place for more than a century, was mixed with the terrain during the Soviet era during the construction of this area, especially the construction of the district municipal building, which was completed in 1947 .
In the reconstructed 16-osios Vasario Street, near the Panevėžys district municipality, human bones were excavated in September. The area between the 16 streets A. Smetona and Vasario was already explored in 2008-2010, then 14 graves were discovered, two more were found last year. There are those who believe that the victims of Soviet terror are buried here, because the former headquarters of the KGB is nearby.
However, archaeologists have not confirmed those assumptions. According to D. Petrulis, the tombs extend towards Calle 16 de Febrero and it can be seen that there is a much older time. It is believed that they can even reach the 17th-18th centuries.
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