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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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    • ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS NEAR SEVLIEVO (Iordan Aleksiev – yordan_aleksiev@abv.bg) A surrounding wall was discovered in the sector at elevation 18. The wall is 35 m long and 18 m wide and closes an area of 1100 – 1200 sq. m. The inner area was set to fir... Read More
    • ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS NEAR SEVLIEVO (Iordan Aleksiev – yordan_aleksiev@abv.bg) The excavations were carried out at the Western Gate of the fortress. In 1989 – 1990, parts of houses were discovered there. Room No. 1 was explored. It had a rectangular ... Read More
    • ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS NEAR SEVLIEVO (Iordan Aleksiev – yordan_aleksiev@abv.bg, Nadezhda Boteva) Six graves had been discovered in the Christian necropolis at the Western gate of the fortress in 1992 and seven graves in 2007. Three graves were discove... Read More
    • HOTALICH FORTRESS (Nadezhda Boteva – nadejda_boteva@abv.bg) The first archaeological explorations of the Early Byzantine and Mediaeval fortress began in 1979. Fortification walls of the citadel were discovered, preserved up to 3 m in height, with four gate... Read More
    • HOTALICH FORTRESS (Nadezhda Boteva – nadejda_boteva@abv.bg) The explorations of the postern on the western fortification wall, 1.75 – 1.80 m wide, continued. The entrance was 2.30 m wide, situated on a section of the wall that was 9 m long and located betw... Read More
    • HOTALICH FORTRESS (Nadezhda Boteva – nadejda_boteva@abv.bg) Three churches were situated on the slope below the fortress. In 1979 and 1980, two of them were partly explored and 60 graves of the 9th – 14th centuries were excavated in a cemetery located clos... Read More
    • HOTALICH FORTRESS (Nadezhda Boteva – nadejda_boteva@abv.bg) A room, 5.80/6 m by 3.50/4.20 m in size was discovered, partly dug into the slope. An oven was explored in the room and two burned animal skeletons were found. The finds comprised over 50 loom wei... Read More
    • HOTALICH FORTRESS (Nadezhda Boteva – nadejda_boteva@abv.bg) The excavations were carried out in the northwestern part of the citadel, between the western and the northern fortification gates discovered in 1989 and in 1993, respectively. The northern fortif... Read More
    • HOTALICH FORTRESS (Nadezhda Boteva – nadejda_boteva@abv.bg) Houses Nos. 1 and 2 of the 6th century AD were explored. The fortification wall in that area was built at the end of the 5th century AD. House No. 2 was built of roughly-cut stones bonded with cla... Read More
    • HOTALICH FORTRESS (Nadezhda Boteva – nadejda_boteva@abv.bg) The explorations continued to the east of Church No. 3 with the adjacent cemetery, discovered in the beginning of the 1980s. Church No. 3 was built around the middle of the 13th century over the r... Read More
    • HOTALICH FORTRESS (Nadezhda Boteva – nadejda_boteva@abv.bg) The explorations of the Christian cemetery around Church No. 3 in the eastern part of the town, continued. During the last two seasons 42 graves were explored. The funerary pits were surrounded wi... Read More
    • HOTALICH FORTRESS (Nadezhda Boteva – nadejda_boteva@abv.bg) Four churches of the 12th – 14th centuries are discovered so far on the site. An Early Byzantine stratum was documented to the north of Church No. 3 and six graves of the second half of the 13th c... Read More
    • HOTALICH FORTRESS (Nadezhda Boteva – nadejda_boteva@abv.bg) Eight burials of the 13th century were explored in the cemetery around Church No. 3. Wooden coffins were documented. A woman, 25 – 26 years old and 1.55 m in height, was buried in Grave No. 51. A ... Read More
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