The contribution deals with the first archaeological notes and excavations that have been recorded inUpper Carniola up to World War II. In the period of humanism the researchers noted down themonuments of the Roman epigraphy. J. W. Valvasor and A. T. Linhart discovered archaeologicalmonuments by their own individual methods. The 19th century has bee fertile for the Slovenearchaeological past, which is valid for Upper Carniola as well as it gained its first detailed descriptionand a ground plan of an archaeological site (Ajdovski gradeč in Bohinj), first finds (Slatna, BohinjAjdna), and field researches (Mullner, Pečnik). In 1893 the first archaeological excavations weredocumented in Kranj. The excavations reached their peak with researching the fallow Lajh in the years1898-1905. The time between the two wars is poor as regarding the extent of archaeological researcheson Slovene territory, which we cannot say for Upper Carniola as Gradišče above Bašelj was discovered.