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Excavation

  • Pliska – Outer Town Site 41
  • Pliska
  • Pliska
  • Bulgaria
  • Shumen
  • Kaspichan
  • 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)

  • PLISKA (Stoyan Vitlyanov – stoyan@shu-bg.net, Konstantin Konstantinov) The explorations of the architectural complex of the 10th – 11th centuries continued. Over 10 rooms (living rooms and stores) were discovered so far and pottery and metal objects were found. Room F2 was situated to the west of the room explored in 2010 and measured 3.80 m by 3.90 m. Its walls were constructed of roughly-cut stones bonded with mud and were 75 cm wide, preserved up to 40 cm in height. Traces from fire were documented and roof tiles, sherds, belt appliqués, coins, jewelry and animal bones were found. Room F3 measured 6 m by 3.90 m and was the largest one in Building F consisting of parallel rooms arranged in a line. Its construction was identical to the other rooms. Sherds, pieces of slag, a lead spindle whorl, iron nails and animal bones were found inside the room. The exploration of the pavement of ashlars, located to the east of Room A1 continued in Trenches 40 and 41. The finds in the room included tegulae, imbrices, sherds, an iron hook for a door, an iron ring and animal bones. A room, 3 m by 2.80 m in size, was discovered at the inner corner of the pavement. Fragmentary roof tiles, bricks and fragmentary burned plaster were found in the room. A dome-like kiln, 85 cm by 85 cm in size, was discovered in the southeastern corner of the room. Explorations were launched at 40 m to the south of Room A8 in the area of the outer surrounding wall of the architectural complex. A neck of a jug with a graffito IYI, which is a proto-Bulgarian symbol, and a bronze earring were found. A wall, 70 cm wide, was documented.

  • Stoyan Vitlyanov - Department of History and Archaeology, Shumen University Bishop Constantine Preslavski 
  • Konstantin Konstantinov - Department of History and Archaeology, Shumen University Bishop Constantine Preslavski 

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  • Shumen University Bishop Constantine Preslavski

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