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- 2004 ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPLORATION OF THE LYUTITSA FORTRESS (Boni Petrunova – boni_boon@abv.bg) The Lyutitsa fortress is situated in the eastern Rhodope Mountains near the town of Ivailovgrad. The fortification walls are preserved up to 10 m in height and protect ... Read More
- 2005 ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPLORATION OF THE LYUTITSA FORTRESS (Boni Petrunova – boni_boon@abv.bg) The area of the fortress is 2.2 ha and it measures 217 m (east – west) by 154 m (north – south). Explorations were carried out in two sectors. Almost all walls of the t... Read More
- 2006 ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS OF THE LYUTITSA FORTRESS (Boni Petrunova – boni_boon@abv.bg) Twenty Christian graves built of stone slabs, surrounding and covering the burial pits, were explored. The grave goods are small in number and include predominantly pe... Read More
- 2011 LYUTITSA FORTRESS (Boni Petrunova – boni_boon@abv.bg, Elena Vasileva, Yana Dimitrova) Two sondages were carried out in the southwestern part of the fortress. A building of the 10th – 12th centuries was documented. It was burned and another building was con... Read More
- 2013 LYUTITSA FORTRESS (Boni Petrunova – boni_boon@abv.bg, Elena Vasileva, Yana Dimitrova) The building in Sondage 1 was burned and another ramshackle building with an oven was constructed over its ruins. It existed until the end of the 12th – beginning of the ... Read More
- 2014 LYUTITSA FORTRESS (Boni Petrunova – boni_boon@abv.bg) The explorations continued in Sondage 2 in Trench A1 situated in the southwestern part of the fortress at 10 m from the fortification gate. A layer of debris was documented there in 2013. In 2014, walls... Read More
- 2015 LYUTITSA FORTRESS (Philip Petrunov – fili4@abv.bg) Eight Christian burials were explored to the east of the church of the 14th century. The burial pits were surrounded with vertical stone slabs and some of them were covered with horizontal slabs. Six child... Read More
- 2016 LYUTITSA FORTRESS (Philip Petrunov – fili4@abv.bg) The exploration of the building situated to the south of the fortification gate continued. The finds included sherds of the 11th – 13th centuries, a terracotta pendant showing Christ Pantokrator, a bronze ... Read More
- 2016 LYUTITSA FORTRESS (Philip Petrunov – fili4@abv.bg) Explorations were carried out to the northeast of the fortress, close to the burials explored in 2005. Finds without any archaeological context were discovered: sherds from sgraffito pottery of the 11th – ... Read More
- 2017 LYUTITSA FORTRESS (Boni Petrunova – boni_boon@abv.bg, Philip Petrunov) The explorations of the Large Building continued. The southern, western and northern walls were excavated, built of ashlars bonded with mortar, 80 cm wide and preserved up to 1.20 m in ... Read More
- 2017 LYUTITSA FORTRESS (Philip Petrunov – fili4@abv.bg) The explorations of the Large Building situated to the south of the fortification gate, continued. The southwestern corner of the building was excavated. The finds from the excavations included Mediaeval s... Read More
- 2018 LYUTITSA FORTRESS (Boni Petrunova – boni_boon@abv.bg, Philip Petrunov, Violina Kiryakova) The excavations continued to the east of the fortification wall and to the west of the Large Building, in the sector close to the fortification gate in the southweste... Read More
- 2019 LYUTITSA FORTRESS (Boni Petrunova – boni_boon@abv.bg, Philip Petrunov, Violina Kiryakova) The fortification walls were preserved up to 13 m in height. The excavations continued at the inner side of the western fortification wall. During the 13th – 14th cen... Read More

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