Summary (English)
AD PUTEA (Sonya Lazarova, Petar Banov – plevenmuseum@dir.bg) In Sector 1, the explorations continued in Room No. 4 where Chalcolithic sherds and burned fragmentary wattle-and-daub were found. Animal bones and Thracian sherds of the 5th – 1st centuries BC were also found. The explorations of the monumental structure built of roughly-cut stones bonded with mortar and identified as a temple of the 2nd – 3rd centuries AD continued to the south of the tower. Its foundations cut a stratum with Thracian sherds and fragmentary wattle-and-daub. The warehouse adjoining the southern side of the tower was built in rubble masonry. Fragmentary sun-dried bricks, bricks, roof-tiles and dolia with carbonized grain were discovered there. The building dated to the last decade of the 4th – beginning of the 5th centuries AD and was destroyed by fire. Room No. 5 was built during the 4th century AD and continued to function during the 5th century AD. Debris from houses of the end of the 4th – 5th centuries AD and of the Middle Ages were documented to the north of it. In sector 4, two domestic ovens were excavated and a quern, sherds and intact ceramic vessels of the 13th – 14th centuries were found around them. Late Antique finds were discovered beneath. A pile of fragmentary bricks, roof-tiles and sun-dried bricks from a destroyed building of the end of the 4th – 5th centuries AD was documented in the northwestern corner of the sector. In Sector 5, a warehouse was discovered, built of sun-dried bricks over foundations of stones and destroyed by fire. The finds dated to the 4th century AD.
- Sonya Lazarova - Regional Museum of History – Pleven  
- Petar Banov - Regional Museum of History – Pleven 
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- Regional Museum of History – Pleven