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Excavation

  • Pliska - Palace
  • Pliska
  • Pliska
  • Bulgaria
  • Shumen
  • Novi Pazar

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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 PLISKA (Rasho Rashev, Yanko Dimitrov – yanko_aim@mail.bg, Stanislav Ivanov) The explorations under the pavement of stone slabs in the yard, located in the southwestern part of the Citadel, continued over an area of c. 320 sq. m. During the excavations in 1899 and 1937, a surrounding wall of bricks with an entrance had been discovered. A sunken rectangular kiln, built of stones and fragmentary bricks bonded with clay, was discovered after the pavement of stone slabs was dismantled. A fragmentary pot of the first half of the 11th century was found there. Probably, the kiln stood under a shelter covered with roof tiles. Room “A” was excavated again. The pavement of stone slabs in the room’s interior and to the west of it is most likely synchronous to the first stage of its existence. The occupation layer under the pavement of stone slabs in the yard is 15 – 20 cm thick. A fragmentary pot with signs: |Y| and X, dated to the second half of the 10th century, was found. A pavement of bricks and three water conduits of terracotta pipes were discovered. Postholes and trenches, containing sherds of the 8th – 9th centuries AD, were explored. They were related to timber buildings and constructions: a room-shelter and a rectangular room measuring 3.50 m by 3 m located near the postern in the southern wall of the Citadel, a shelter along the southern and the western walls of the Citadel or a path at the level of the pinnacles, a wall of the earlier timber Citadel and a gate in the western palisade, and wooden fences. There was continuity in the architectural plan of the earlier timber and the later bricks-built Citadel.

  • Rasho Rashev - Archaeological Institute with Museum 
  • Yanko Dimitrov - Shumen Branch of the Archaeological Institute and Museum 
  • Stanislav Ivanov - Shumen Branch of the Archaeological Institute and Museum 

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  • Archaeological Institute with Museum
  • Shumen Branch of the Archaeological Institute and Museum

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