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Excavation

  • Preslav - Monastery of Mostich
  • Veliki Preslav
  • Preslav
  • Bulgaria
  • Shumen
  • Veliki Preslav

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Credits

  • 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)

  • PRESLAV (Rossina Kostova – korina68bg@yahoo.com, Kazimir Popkonstantinov) The walls of the Northern Building were 75 – 80 cm wide, built of roughly-cut stones bonded with clay. Two rooms were discovered in the building, one of them with traces from fire. The finds included sherds of the 10th – 11th centuries, iron nails, a hammer-chisel, lead weights, lead bars, bronze belt appliqués, two lead and one bronze crosses. Tegulae and imbrices were discovered in front of the southern wall of the building and three folles were found minted by Leo VI the Wise, Constantine VIII and Romanos III Argyros. The finds from the excavations included also a coin of Constantine the Great, a follis of Leo VI the Wise, a follis of Nikephoros II Phokas, a Byzantine anonymous follis of the Class A1 and two coins of 1220 – 1250.

  • Kazimir Popkonstantinov - Department of Archaeology, Veliko Tarnovo University St. Cyril and St. Methodius 

Director

  • Rossina Kostova - Department of Archaeology, Veliko Tarnovo University St. Cyril and St. Methodius

Team

Research Body

  • Veliko Tarnovo University St. Cyril and St. Methodius

Funding Body

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