Summary (English)
SEXAGINTA PRISTA (Nikola Rusev – nikola_rusev@hotmail.com, Varbin Varbanov, Deyan Dragoev) A hearth and 17 pits of the 2nd century BC – 1st century AD were explored, containing sherds, including three amphora handles with stamps, and fibulae. Two pits of the 2nd – 3rd centuries AD were explored, one of them containing a human skull of a young individual. Part of the southeastern fortification wall with a tower of the beginning of the 4th century AD was explored. A large dugout and a pile of debris from building ceramics of the 5th – 6th centuries AD were explored. A dugout of the 11th century was discovered; mediaeval sherds and an anonymous Byzantine follis of the Class C were found there. The finds from the excavations included coins: one of the 2nd century AD, eight of the 3rd century AD, 55 of the 4th – beginning of the 5th centuries AD, three of the 6th century AD, four of the 11th century and one of the 13th century, and mostly Thracian and Late Antique sherds.
- Nikola Rusev - Museum of History – Popovo 
- Varbin Varbanov - Regional Museum of History – Ruse 
- Deyan Dragoev - Regional Museum of History – Ruse 
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- Museum of History – Popovo
- Regional Museum of History – Ruse