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Excavation

  • Cherven
  • Cherven
  • Cherven
  • Bulgaria
  • Ruse
  • Ivanovo
  • Cherven

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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)

  • ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS IN CHERVEN (Stoyan Iordanov – stojan_jo@abv.bg) A sector in the northern periphery of the saddle that divides the Inner Town of Cherven was explored. The saddle was fortified from the north and the south where it was accessible. The ditch in front of the fortification wall of the Citadel is situated in the eastern part of the saddle. The excavations were carried out in eight trenches and separate sectors around the northern fortification wall. Three parallel walls, oriented east – west, were explored at up to 9.50 m in length. They were built of uneven stones bonded with mud and are 60 cm thick. Traces of fire were found and burned parallel wooden beams, arranged over the clay floor, were discovered. The finds date to the 13th – 15th centuries and include sherds, ceramic vessels, coins, iron tools, nails and a fragment of a ceramic melting pot. A wall oriented north – south, built of ashlars bonded with mortar, was discovered to the east of the three parallel walls. Sherds of the 13th – 14th centuries were found. The northern periphery of the saddle in the Inner Town was occupied during the Second Bulgarian Kingdom and the Early Ottoman period (15th – 16th centuries).

  • Stoyan Iordanov - Regional Museum of History – Ruse 

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  • Regional Museum of History – Ruse

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