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EXPLORATIONS IN PLISKA (Yanko Dimitrov – yanko_aim@mail.bg, Stanislav Ivanov) The explorations in the western part of the Small Palace (the Citadel) continued. Trenches from timber fences, pits for timber columns, water-conduits and drains of the 8th – 9th centuries AD were documented in Sector Central, between Building B4, the Palatial Church and the Large Cistern. Two places for stirring mortar of the end of the 10th – beginning of the 11th century were discovered. Midden pits were discovered below. The pits contained small wires from icon-lamps, fragmentary small glass vessels, a pair of iron scissors, an engraved glass gem showing a human head and a lead seal of Alexios, Spatarokandidatos and a Member of the Great Hetaireia, dated to the end of the 10th – 11th century. A pit situated under the foundation of the western wall of the Small Palace was explored. It contained a skeleton of a horse (or an ox), fragmentary bricks and marble veneers, and sherds of the second half of the 10th – 11th centuries. A pillar incorporated in the western building of the Small Palace was documented. In Sector South, a drain coming out from the sunken-floored room of the so-called winery and situated to the south of the baths was documented in Room G in the western wing of the T-like Building consisting of parallel rooms arranged in a line. Thirteen ceramic pipes placed in a trench over mortar pads were discovered. The walls of the sunken-floored room were constructed of bricks and its floor was plastered with hydrophobic mortar. The room was later than the baths and had an area of 60 sq. m and was 2 m deep. It was probably a cistern. Sectors from the so-called main water-conduit of the Inner Town of Pliska were explored. The water-conduit was placed over mortar pads and was covered with a pitched roof of bricks. A cistern for containing and cleaning the drinking water was discovered. It was dug out into the ground and was 1.25 m by 1.30 m in size and 1.40 m in depth. Its walls and bottom were faced with marble veneer and slabs. The cistern was built before the Large Pool.
- Yanko Dimitrov - Shumen Branch of the Archaeological Institute and Museum 
- Stanislav Ivanov - Shumen Branch of the Archaeological Institute and Museum 
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- Shumen Branch of the Archaeological Institute and Museum
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