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Excavation

  • Pamuk Tepe Settlement
  • Krastevich
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  • Bulgaria
  • Plovdiv
  • Hisarya
  • Krustevich

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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)

  • EXPLORATIONS NEAR THE VILLAGE OF KRASTEVICH (Mitko Madzharov – m_madjarov@abv.bg, Dimitrinka Tancheva) Building A has three parallel rooms interconnected with entrances and another room in the northeastern corner, measuring 3.25 m by 4.77 m. Its walls were constructed of stones bonded with mud and are 50 cm in width, preserved up to 50 cm in height. The floor of this room is covered with stone slabs. Its western side is open towards the main room. The central room was explored. The floor is covered with trampled stones. The northern wall is 90 cm in width. There is an entrance, 1 m in width, on the eastern wall of the central room, which is leading to the eastern room. There is a second entrance, 1 m in width, with a burned threshold, which connects the central and the eastern rooms. The western wall of the central room is 1.10 m in width. There is a drain constructed of stone slabs in the middle of the western wall. An entrance, 1 m in width, connects the western and the central rooms. A dolium dug into the ground was discovered in the western room. The outer wall of the eastern room was explored. It is constructed of stones bonded with mud. Both faces of the wall were built of cut stones, while its filling consists of small stones. The wall is preserved up to 35 cm in height. A hearth was explored in the eastern room, and bronze and iron slag and bronze melts were found. The building was two-storey. The lower part of the walls was built of stones bonded with mud and the upper part of the walls was constructed of sun-dried brick. An eschara was explored from the outer side of the eastern room and seven terracotta loom weights were found. The finds from the excavations date from the beginning of the 5th to the mid 4th centuries BC and include fragmentary bronze vessels, a trihemiobol of the mid 4th century BC, an iron arrowhead, nails, hooks, terracotta loom weights and fragmentary pottery, including Greek black-gloss vessels and amphorae.

Director

  • Dimitrinka Tancheva - Archaeological Museum – Hisar
  • Mitko Madzharov - Archaeological Museum – Hisar

Team

Research Body

  • Archaeological Museum – Hisar

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