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Excavation

  • St. Forty Martyrs Church
  • Veliko Tarnovo
  • Tarnovo

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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)

    • TARNOVO (Konstantin Totev – konstantin_totev@abv.bg, Evgeni Dermendzhiev, Plamen Karailiev) An area of 70 sq. m was explored to the south of the Mediaeval church that was transformed into baths during the Ottoman period. Layers containing mixed Thracian, Early Byzantine and Mediaeval sherds and fragmentary roof-tiles were documented. The layers were spread in the 13th century to level the terrain. Two burials of a child and an adult, belonging to the cemetery of the 16th – 17th centuries, were discovered near the Mediaeval church that was transformed into baths. So far, almost 80 graves were explored in that cemetery. The finds from the excavations included a copper coin, sherds from sgraffito bowls with graffiti, terracotta tobacco pipes and a stone mould.

    • Konstantin Totev - Veliko Tarnovo Branch of the Archaeological Institute and Museum 
    • Evgeni Dermendzhiev - Regional Museum of History – Veliko Tarnovo 
    • Plamen Karailiev - Archaeological Museum ‘Maritsa – East’ 

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    Research Body

    • Regional Museum of History - Veliko Tarnovo
    • Veliko Tarnovo Branch of the Archaeological Institute and Museum

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