At the end of 1st century B.C. Romans have conquered Pannonia, but the real process of romanisation of this area didn’t begin until 1st century after the Romans’ conquest of some areas. They gave priority to the infrastructure which allowed faster movement of the army and trade development. While the new roads have been built, the old autochthon road network was often used. One of the important roads through Pannonia was the mansion Incero – the travel station which was presumably situated on the area of the today’s village Tekić.
In the locality of Treštanovačka gradina near Tekić a lot of findings from the period of the Late Antique have been found, although this settlement probably came into existence earlier. The remains of the architecture suggest existence of the rustic roman villa and thermal spas which dated back to the period since the beginning of the 2nd century till the end of the 4th century.
Along with remains of the architecture all sorts of ceramic materials were found- cooking and table utensils and considerable part of bone materials-pencils, hair pins and needles-which were usual and popular because of the fast and cheap manufacturing. Found pencils looks like a simple needle with a slightly sharp head, by its shape looks like a needle that was used for mixing paint and putting on make-up. Hair pins beside, for modelling, supporting and decoration were also used for butting up clothes or for cosmetic purposes. They could stay in the same shape for the entire antique period. Beside numerous metal objects for every day use-keys, nails, hooks, knives, scrapers, parts of two scales, bronze needles. Bronze needles with one lug were used for sewing clothing and other textile products, and they belong to the fundamental everlasting forms.
Exceptional finding represents the bronze scale. The object is very rear amongst archaeological discoveries. The scale from locality Tekić belongs to the group of bilingual scale for accurate measurement. It has across bar with equal arms with openings in the endings on which were hanged measurement dishes and the element for hanging the scale in the middle of the cross bar. Scales like this were used in pharmacy and for money trade and were estimated for manual weighing hanged on the thumb.
Alongside the settlement there was also a cemetery, and till now there were examined 118 bone burials and in 71 graves were found rich exhibits, mainly glass and metal objects. Dead people were buried in plane earthen grave and tombs. Objects that were put into the graves have more symbolic than material value. There were found two glint surface ceramic pots, all sort of glass objects, glasses, mugs, bowls. In men’s graves were found objects that belong to men’s clothing, parts of belt equipment-clutches, chains, tabs, fibulas- showing the position of the deceased person and jewellery- rings, seldom necklaces and bracelets. In women’s and children’s graves there were all sorts of the jewellery- necklaces, earrings, bracelets and rings.
From the 5th century the Roman government in Pannonia has only a symbolic role- regulation was taken over by Ostrogotes, Gepids, Langobardes, Avars and Slavs. Romanised-barbaric population survived these turbulent times and subsisted in different circumstances. At the end of the 8th century this area was overtaken by the Francs and at the beginning of the 9th century they established the Lower Pannonia principality with the representative of domestic Slavic elite as its head. This principality probably came to the end when the Hungarian attacked this area in the beginning of the 10th century.
In the first half of the 13th century in the Požega County monastic orders, Templars, Benedictines and Cistercians had their feudal properties and the oldest sacral building in the area of medieval Požega County is the armed constitution of Benedictines abbey on Rudina. Rudina-as a settlement- is mentioned for the fist time in written documents in 1210 and the monastery is mentioned for the first time in 1279.
Armed constitution on Rudina is made of the large Romanic Church of St. Michael consisting of three naves, and the monastery which is next to the church from the north side and it frames the cloister in which the reservoir is embedded. On the west side of the plateau the base of a smaller Romanic church (one nave), which probably older than the monastery, was saved. Rudina has the continuity of colonisation from the Prehistoric period. Fragments of Prehistoric ceramics show the existence of a Prehistoric fortified town. Numerous finds of roman bricks that have been used to make tombs and to pave the ground of the monastery church hint at the existence of Roman locality but without a settled centre. One important discovery of the tomb with flip-out panel on which is engraved a stylized drawing of fish, shows that Rudina at the time of the late Roman Empire had a sacral character. The finding of Slavic pottery fragments mostly indicate the use of this place during the early Middle Ages. From the period of the high and late Middle Ages archaeological researchers collected a large amount of archaeological materials- pottery, fragments of stone sculpture, metal objects with different purposes and stoves that belonged to clay and tile stoves. Different types are represented– clay stoves in the form of cups and bulbs, the type of semi-cylindrical plate stoves and stoves with decorative front panel decorated with various motifs in relief (the emblem of Gorjani, representation of an eagle with outstretched wings, a rosette). Among the most important discoveries of Rudina are the heads of Rudina, or the stone consoles with carved human faces and total human figures.