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Excavation

  • Yurenya Tumuli
  • Elenovo
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  • Bulgaria
  • Sliven
  • Nova Zagora
  • Elenovo

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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 THE VILLAGE OF ELENOVO (Veselin Ignatov – ignatov_v@abv.bg, Tatyana Kancheva–Ruseva, Krasimir Velkov) The explorations of the tumuli began in 1998. Almost the entire embankment of tumulus No. 1 was explored during the previous six archaeological campaigns. A burial construction of the Late Iron Age, eight graves from the second half of the 4th century AD and 53 mediaeval Christian burials of the 11th – 14th centuries were discovered. A mound of stones in the center of the tumulus, a krepis, a construction of stones inside the krepis, a layer of stones enclosing the embankment, 14.50 m in diameter and 0.80 – 1.15 m in height, four circles of stones and the tumulus center surrounded by the inner circle of stones were explored. In 2008, the explorations were concentrated in the area outside the circles of stones, in the southeastern sector of the tumulus. Sherds from the Late Iron Age and fragmentary burned plaster were found in the tumular embankment. A mediaeval grave was explored. A pot placed on the pelvis of the deceased was found. The excavations of tumulus No. 2 continued. Three secondary mediaeval Christian graves, a pile of stones of the Late Iron Age and a platform of burned plaster of the Early Iron Age were explored in the southeastern sector until now. In 2008, the excavations were concentrated in the southern half of the tumulus. A mediaeval grave was explored. The explorations of the platform of burned plaster continued. The plaster extends into the southwestern part of the tumulus. Sherds from the end of the first and the second phase of the Early Iron Age (9th – 6th centuries BC) were found. The burned plaster belonged to a ramshackle building that was set to fire. The pile of stones in the center of the tumulus was explored. Sherds from imported Greek red-figure pottery, small pieces of cremated bones and small pieces of charcoal were found in the structure destroyed by the treasure-hunters.

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

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  • Museum of History – Nova Zagora

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