KOŠTAK

Koštak is a hilltop a bit to the north of the Kozjak cliffs, it rises above the Konjsko field and it controls a large land area, but also a part of a mid-Adriatic Sea surface. It is a morphologically complex object whose core is fortified by an “acropolis” at the top of the hill, and the object is fortified by a rampart wall whose tumble is up to 30 meters high. In the north you can see two semi-circle rampart walls behind which terraces were stretching. In the south the hilltop was protected by a natural cliff, and below it there was a settlement which on the west was fortified by a short rampart wall. The top of the hilltop was destroyed during the World War II when machine gun nests were set up and a shelter was built. Koštak is a large hilltop with a long tradition which, in the past, was a unit with Klis and Markezinagreda forming a “limit” facing the north. The rampart walls were, in fact, dry walls and they had two faces with their width being 2.5-2.6 meters. They were built using roughly polished stone slabs ( the bigger slabs are around 1.5 meters long and around 0.8 meters high). This kind of construction (two-faced rampart walls using roughly polished stone slabs and a slight break in the direction of the defence wall) demanded certain static and constructive solutions.