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An archaeological investigation realized between 2002 and 2012 has re-interpreted the construction phases and spatial organization of the Javorník Castle in Czech Silesia. Its first phase, dating to the beginning of the 14th century, consisted of a bergfried-type castle with a rounded fortification ditch. This fortification was re-built at the end of the 15th and start of the16th centuries when the castle was divided into upper and lower portions. The Modern Age has seen a complex of constructions at the glacis, pictured also in historical vedutas. Between 2013 and 2014, certain data acquired earlier by archaeological prospecting and excavations were corroborated by electric resistivity tomography (ERT) and ground penetrating radar measurement (GPR); moreover an advanced siege fortification, probably related to a Hussite siege of the castle, was identified by 3D laser scanning south of the castle. IANSA 2015 ● VI/1 ● 83–92 Hana Dehnerová, Jan Martínek, Martin Moník, Pavel Šlézar: Archaeological and Geophysical Investigation and 3D Visualization at the Jánský Vrch Castle in Javorník (Czech Republic) 84 document from 1307, a castle manager is already mentioned (Kouřil et al. 2000). After 1348, duke Bolek II of Svídnice left his part of Javorník to the Bishop Przeclav of Pogarel and the castle became the property of the Wrocław diocese. Between 1428 and 1432, the castle was taken and occupied by the Hussites and partially destroyed after their departure (for details see Kouřil et al. 2000). The actual appearance of the castle is due to several reconstructions which took place mainly at the end of the 15th, and then the beginning of the 16th, and during the course of the 18th century. The bishops Jan Roth and Jan Thurzo had the castle, now called Jánský Vrch (Johannisberg), rebuilt between the 1480s and 1509 into a Late Gothic castle. Later Baroque reconstruction took place during the episcopacy of Filip Gothard Schaffgotsch and a Classicist stairway was constructed around the 1890s/1900s (the building’s construction history has been covered by Vítek 2000). 1.2 Overview of archaeological knowledge Archaeological finds were made at the site already in the 1930s but a systematic investigation only took place after 1990 in relation to construction history research of the chateaux (e.g. Brachtl 1998; 2000). An archaeological salvage excavation took place in 2001 and 2002 along with some sewer reconstruction at the eastern glacis (Figure 2; in greater detail in Dehnerová, Šlézar 2013). An up-to-date archaeological investigation has revealed that the oldest activities at the castle date from the 14th century, which is in accordance with its supposed foundation at the beginning of the 14th century. In the first phase (14th–15th century), a castle of a bergfried type was built, fortified by a curved ditch (for more details see Dehnerová, Šlézar, in press). In the northern part of the eastern glacis, outside of the ditch, buildings connected with the defence of the castle’s entrance have also been identified (Figures 2 and 7). A stone building had stood here, a part of which was unearthed close to the north-eastern corner of the castle (Figure 7), and to the north there had stood another wooden and earthen construction as indicated by a fire destruction layer there. Significant activities from the period of the castle’s reconstruction around 1500 were also identified. The fortification ditch had been filled with the debris of destroyed buildings from around the bergfried, and the terrain, including the ditch, was covered by a mortar layer. From out of the ditch, pottery from the end of the 15th and start of the 16th century was acquired. A new fortification 1.4 metres wide was built later, identified by excavations made in two places (Figures 2 and 7) – in the northern part close to the entrance gate and in the south close to the Classicist house where it had been supported by a tower (overbuilt later by a Modern Age wall). During this period, construction modifications also took place of the gate building and its vicinity. In the Modern Age (16th–18th century), the area of the eastern glacis was paved over several times, levelled by further landfills and partially overbuilt by buildings as indicated by both archaeological investigations and iconographic sources from the 18th century. After 2002, two major construction works took place in the castle area, both related to public utilities’ construction. The related trenches actually confirmed the knowledge acquired by earlier investigation. They cut into the layers of Modern Age landfills: in several places remnants of cobble pavements at a depth of 1.3 metres were identified. The rock bed, formed here by amphibolites and gneisses of the Orlice-Sněžník unit (Žáček 1995), was evidenced just exceptionally in the farmyard (Figure 7). The oldest identified pottery dates from the 14th–15th centuries, but comes from secondary contexts. A number of walls were identified as well, namely in the northern part of the glacis where a foundation stone wall 5.15 m in length and 1.2 m Figure 1. Location of Jánský Vrch castle (arrow) in Javorník.