North of Dugopolje, near the hamlet of Kapela, in the karst area of Vučipolje, planted with grape-vines and fruit trees, at the place where the Split – Sinj road turns in the direction of Bisko, on the route of the future road Split – Dubrovnik, section Dugopolje – Bisko, there was a late medieval necropolis with 170 graves in which over 300 people were buried. The site where the graves were found is called Crkvine, so it is probable that there used to be a church nearby. Archaeological excavations began on October 1, 2004 and continued until March 23, 2005.
The necropolis most probably belonged to the settlement of Crisii (Križice), which was mentioned at the end of the 14th century and the beginning of the 15th century along with Dugopolje and Koprivno. It is assumed that the village of Križice was located north of the necropolis, and was abandoned most likely after the Turkish conquests. The Turks captured Klis in 1537 and ruled that part of Croatia for next 111 years. The site was best known in literature for a stećak tombstone with a human figure with raised arms and outstretched legs, built into a dry stone wall.
Seventy graves were covered with stone monoliths – stećak tombstones, of which only eight were decorated. Of the eight decorated stećak tombstones, two depict a praying human figure. Three tombstones differ in appearance. The first stećak was carved in the shape of half a loaf of bread, and was placed vertically above the grave. The second stećak was carved in the shape of a roof or a sarcophagus lid. The third stećak resembles an obelisk and is decorated with a praying human figure. Below the stećak tombstones were larger and smaller stones, and below them were the tomb covers. Stones under the covers were sometimes stacked into a regular grave oval wreath. Some tombs in the western part of the necropolis within that oval stone wreath had a headboard. In one case, a fragment of probably the lower part of the capital of the early Christian church was used as a headboard. All stećak tombstones were moved to Dugopolje for exhibition.
There were small finds in 46 graves: silver buttons (15 pieces), more than twenty coins from the 14th-16th c., four Turkish akča coins, needles, two knives, rings, remains of fabric with gold threads, a pair of three-beaded earrings with two beades and a pear-shaped pendant in the middle, three pairs of three-beaded perforated earrings, three individual three-beaded earrings, beads made of glass paste and belt yarns. Anthropological analysis of osteological material will be performed by Dr. Mario Šlaus and his team from the Department of Archeology of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (H. Gjurašin 2006, Hrvatski arheološki godišnjak 2/2005, 422–423).