In the period from 18th August to 5th September 2005, the Križevci Municipal Museum continued systematic excavations of the Brezovljani Neolithic site at the Mihajlica location, which it has been carrying out since 2002. The 132 m² area has been excavated with three trenches. The excavation was carried out on a field located east of the settlement Mihajlici, at the very top of the hill, just south of the road Šofići – Brezovljani, which passes through its ridge. The cultural layer with pits appeared at a depth of 30 cm from today’s soil level, and during 2005 excavations, seven pit objects were explored in whole or in part. The most common of the archaeological artefacts is pottery. In addition to pottery material with features of the Brezovljani type of Sopot culture, late medieval pottery was also collected.
The most important pottery find is an abstract figurine of a woman that was probably made as part of a vessel. The figurine indicates a cult purpose, as well as the architecture of the dugout SJ 217, with stepped benches on four levels, which represents a place for social gatherings or a place of a cult purpose. Lithic material is also largely represented by polished stone tools (axes, wedges), as well as knapped stone tools (scrapers, blades). Late medieval pottery was made on a fast-rotating potter’s wheel. Pots with curved and thickened rims appear as the most common pottery forms. The bottoms of the vessels, the lid and fragments of a squared oven with vegetable motifs were found. The decoration is done by grooving the waves and horizontal lines. Pottery belongs to the period of the late Middle Ages (15th – 17th centuries).
During the excavations, the cult part of the settlement of the Brezovljani type of Sopot culture (4900 – 4700/4600 BCE) was explored, which is indicated by the finding of an abstract figure of a woman (Great Mother Goddess or part of a vessel used in the fertility cult), as well as the architecture of the dugout SJ 217 with stepped benches on four levels that could accommodate a larger number of people and was probably a place of social gatherings, i.e. a place of worship. The late medieval building SJ 220, which can be roughly dated from the 15th to the 17th century, was buried into this stratigraphic unit. After the excavation, the site was buried (L. Okroša Rožić 2006, Hrvatski arheološki godišnjak 2/2005, 109-110).