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Excavation

  • Sexaginta Prista
  • Ruse
  • Sexaginta Prista
  • Bulgaria
  • Ruse

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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)

  • SEXAGINTA PRISTA (Varbin Varbanov – ramonearhaeology@abv.bg, Nikola Rusev, Deyan Dragoev) A stratum of a Thracian settlement was documented and a domestic oven, a pottery kiln and 26 pits of the 2nd century BC – 1st century AD were explored. The finds included sherds, 10 coins, 13 amphora stamps and five fibulae of the 5th century BC – 1st century AD. There were no strata and structures of the 2nd – 3rd centuries AD, but sherds and 54 coins, mostly of the 3rd century AD, were found, probably related to the sanctuary of Apollo and the Thracian Horseman situated nearby. Part of the southeastern fortification wall with a gate with towers and part of another U-like tower were discovered, built in the beginning of the 4th century AD, judging from folles that were found. The fortification wall was 3 m wide, built in opus vittatum, preserved up to 1 m in height. Part of a building of the 4th – 5th centuries AD was explored and eight pits of the 5th century AD were discovered, containing sherds, animal bones and 39 coins. A house of the 6th century AD adjoining the inner side of the fortification wall was explored, dated by coins of Justinian I and Justin II and Sophia. A stratum of the 10th – 11th centuries was explored, containing sherds, belt buckles, part of a cross-encolpion and five anonymous Byzantine folles of the Class A and B. Coins of the 13th – 14th centuries were found.

  • Varbin Varbanov - Regional Museum of History – Ruse 
  • Nikola Rusev - Museum of History – Popovo 
  • Deyan Dragoev - Regional Museum of History – Ruse 

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  • Regional Museum of History – Ruse

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