On the rugged Velebit heads and prominent ridges, the Bronze and Iron Age were built defensive fortifications in the dry (a stone, without binding material) - RUINS. They could serve as a shelter the population from the surrounding hamlets opsanosti case, and some may have been permanent settlements in which the seat of local strongmen. Today they are demolished, but sometimes it is possible to see the ring of high levees in some places up to several meters.
Near the fort are often burial lots - clusters of large round stones under which, in the burial chests made of stone slabs, were buried at the time strongmen. Most of them have been dug and robbed graves, but they can still occasionally be seen, as the area above the hamlet Ljubotić Tribanj-Kruščica.
The Velebit passes, hills and open areas, with mountain paths, are located Miriam, funeral memorial signs made of stone. Emerged in an era when people lived and died in the Velebit villages (17th - 20th century), and survived, mostly from stock.
They preserve the memory of the deceased died on the mountain slopes, which had to be transferred to the village church and the cemetery where they were buried. On this difficult path were allowed to stop, relax and drop dead on the ground at only one place - the place of the dead last greeting to the sun.
On this site was created Miriam - a measure (of peace) of the deceased marked headstone and foot stone tilings between them, and symbols in shallow relief headstone engraved stone. Are revered and visited more than the grave in which only the body, no soul that was left on Mirilo.
The mystical art uzglavnicama views on, among which are the most common cross and the solar circle, pointing to the continuity of artistic decoration of prehistoric cultures, through early Christianity and the iconography of tombstones, and inscriptions are rare and belong to the later time. As a stone marks the single funeral cult, Miriam transmitted to us the customs, lifestyles and the creation of an entire time.
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