摘要：In a field survey of part of the village Sotin, the sites known from the literature (Ilkić 1999; Ilkić 2003) were inspected, some of which were registered earlier. Besides several small-scale rescue excavations (digs of house foundations, etc.) in the Sotin area in the 1970s, conducted by the curator of the Vukovar City Museum, A. Dorn, there were no archaeological excavations in this area before. In view of the periods to which the finds belong (prehistory, Antiquity, Middle Ages) and their significance, Sotin needs to be sorted out in the archaeological map of Croatia. Besides finds from the Neolithic and the Eneolithic periods, the Middle Bronze Age, the Late Bronze Age, and the Iron Age, Sotin was a military fortress on the limes of the Roman Empire. Individual finds from the Migration Period and the Middle Ages are also known. Regarding the return of the population after the 1990s Homeland War, and the reconstruction and development of the presentday settlement on the territory of past settlements and cemeteries, it is necessary to preserve the entire archaeological zone of the Sotin area, and to conduct trial excavations in order to confirm the individual micro-locations.
