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Excavation

  • Laguna Tumuli
  • Tvarditsa
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  • Bulgaria
  • Sliven
  • Tvarditsa

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  • The Italian Database is the result of a collaboration between:

    MIBAC (Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali - Direzione Generale per i Beni Archeologici),

    ICCD (Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione) and

    AIAC (Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica).

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Summary (English)

  • ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS NEAR TVARDITSA (Krasimir Velkov – dakras@abv.bg, Tatyana Kancheva–Ruseva) The explorations in the southeastern quarter of Tumulus No. 1 continued. Ten secondary inhumation burials were discovered and the total number of the burials found in the tumulus reached 123. The dead were laid supine with heads to the west / northwest. Pieces of charcoal were found in the graves. The grave goods comprised silver and bronze earrings of the 4th – 5th centuries AD, a necklace of glass beads, two bronze bracelets, a finger-ring and a bronze belt buckle (Grave No. 115). The burials were Christian and dated to the 4th – 5th centuries AD.

  • Krasimir Velkov - Museum of History – Nova Zagora 
  • Tatyana Kancheva–Ruseva - Archaeological Museum ‘Maritsa – East’ 

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  • Museum of History – Nova Zagora

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