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We know that N. Vulić in the early thirty's performed preliminary
excavations outside the village of Gorenci with the task to find the
settlement of the inhabitants to whom the necropolis at Trebenishte
belonged, “Novi grobovi kod Trebeništa”, Spomenik, LXXVII, 1934. His
observation is referred in whole as follows: “The signed person was this
time also looking for a settlement where the inhabitants buried in the
necropolis at Trebenishte, used to live. According to the testimonies of
the local inhabitants, in the whole surrounding areas of the villages
of Orovnik, Gorenci and Trebenishte, underground walls can be found in
only one place, in front of Gorenci, approximately one kilometer away
from the necropolis. The signed person had dug several ditches, leading
to the subsoil. Wherever he would dig, he would really come up to walls.
These must have been foundations of buildings. Unfortunately, only
small parts of them had remained. In fact, there had never been more
than one row of stones. The walls are without mortar or cement. Any
conclusion regarding the period this settlement dated could not be made
from them. Small objects, (such as chips of earth dishes) were not found
at all, so that it could not be a basis for conclusion, either.
Therefore, the question regarding the location of the settlement to
which our necropolis belonged still cannot be answered”. In addition to
that, there are some other clues about location of the city of Lyncus
at the village of Gorenci. Lyncus, so called by Thucydides and Livy (59
BC – 17 AD) was situated to the east of the Dessaretii.
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It occupied the shores of the Ohrid Lake in direction of the river
Black Drim with the hilly surroundings up to the city of Debar where
Lyncestians also used to have some access to the silver mines of
Damastium, in the Valley of Radika River. From the Livy's history of the
first campaign of the Romans in Macedonia, which commenced apparently
with the invasion of Lyncestis, the consul Sulpicius entered that
territory from the country of the Dessaretii, and encamped on the river
Bevus, near Lyncus. At Octolophus, Philip V, the king of Macedon
challenged the Romans when many Macedonians were killed and some were
driven into bogs and were sucked down together with their horses in the
bottomless mud. Even the king Philip V was in danger, galloping round
the swamp until he reached his camp in safety. Doubtlessly, the whole
valley of Struga alongside the river Black Drim was waterlogged land and
impossible for road communication from Ohrid to Sruga. When the road
“Via Egnatia” was build, it must have followed a direction alongside the
slope of the hills surrounding the valley of Sruga and passing the
river Black Drim at Dobovjani, the place for the Pons Servilli. We also
know by Anna Comnena, daughter of Emperor Alexius I that “the river
Black Drymon runs down from the lake Lychnis through some hundred
channels, which we call bridges. For separate rivers amounting to one
hundred in number come out of this lake as if from different sources,
they never failand flow separately in this way until they join into one
river near Deure”.
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