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  • Pliska - Western Fortification Wall
  • Pliska
  • Pliska

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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 OF THE WESTERN FORTIFICATION WALL OF PLISKA (Lyudmila Doncheva–Petkova – ldoncheva_petkova@abv.bg) The excavations of the southern sector of the western fortification wall were resumed. An area of 125 sq. m was explored. Two side walls beginning from the fortification wall were traced out. They are preserved up to 60 cm in height and are 60 – 65 cm in width. The walls were built of broken marls with a bonding medium of mud. The bottoms of three small furnaces (Nos. 59, 60, 61) for iron metallurgy were discovered close to the northern side wall and below it. They stand from 11.30 to 14 m to the east of the fortification wall and were dug at 1 m depth into the loess. Two bigger patches of charcoals and ash, 80 cm by 1 m and 1 m by 1.20 m in diameters, most likely remains of forge hearths, were found to the south and to the northeast of the furnaces. Many pieces of slag with high concentration of iron, corroded iron objects (chisels, nails, a horseshoe) and fragmentary big pots used for the iron metallurgy were discovered around. Sherds of the 10th century AD are rare at 80 cm – 1 m in depth. Fragments of thin-wall and glazed pots, jugs, pitchers and amphorae, typical in Pliska during the end of the 10th – first half of the 11th centuries, were often found at 40 cm – 60 cm in depth. The anonymous Byzantine folles discovered during the excavations testify to the intensive life in the southwestern part of the inner town of Pliska during the end of the 10th – first half of the 11th centuries.

    Director

    • Lyudmila Doncheva–Petkova - Archaeological Institute and Museum

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    Research Body

    • Archaeological Institute with Museum

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