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Pliska - Inner Town Timber Fortification
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- 2004 EARLY FORTIFICATION IN THE INNER TOWN OF PLISKA (Pavel Georgiev – pavel_g@gbg.bg, Yanko Dimitrov) The southeastern corner of the fortification was uncovered. A foundation pit of a wooden post containing sherds of the end of the 8th or beginning of the 9th ... Read More
- 2005 EARLY FORTIFICATION IN THE INNER TOWN OF PLISKA (Pavel Georgiev – pavel_g@gbg.bg, Radoslav Vasilev) The eastern gate of the early timber fortification was discovered. The passage is more than 6 m in length and 2.70 – 2.90 m in width. Its walls consist of t... Read More
- 2006 EXPLORATIONS IN PLISKA (Pavel Georgiev – pavel_g@gbg.bg, Radoslav Vasilev) Two parallel trenches from the foundations of the timber fortification wall were documented in Trench VII. The finds include pottery of the 8th – 9th centuries AD, belt decorations,... Read More
- 2007 ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS IN PLISKA (Pavel Georgiev – pavel_g@gbg.bg, Radoslav Vasilev) The explorations in the Small Timber Fortification, located in the northwestern sector of the Inner Town, continued. Trenches from fences, which adjoined the northeas... Read More
- 2008 EXPLORATIONS IN PLISKA (Pavel Georgiev – pavel_g@gbg.bg, Radoslav Vasilev) An area of c. 350 sq. m was explored. Three foundation trenches (two of them with a Г-like layout) from the northern line of the Large Fortification were discovered in sondage IX. T... Read More
- 2009 ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS IN PLISKA (Pavel Georgiev – pavel_g@gbg.bg, Radoslav Vasilev) The relationship between the Small Timber Fortification and the Large Timber Fortification was explored. It was found that an extension of the western wall of the Sma... Read More
- 2010 PLISKA (Pavel Georgiev – pavel_g@gbg.bg, Radoslav Vasilev, Tihomir Tihov) The Small Timber Fortification was explored in the northwestern part of the Inner Town. It was the predecessor of the Large Timber Fortification, which was explored from 1977 to 2006... Read More
- 2011 PLISKA (Pavel Georgiev – pavel_g@gbg.bg, Radoslav Vasilev, Tihomir Tihov, Gergana Ilieva) The explorations in Trench XX in the central part of the Small Timber Fortification continued. Different dug out structures were explored, situated under the debris o... Read More
- 2012 PLISKA (Pavel Georgiev – pavel_g@gbg.bg, Radoslav Vasilev, Tihomir Tihov, Gergana Ilieva) Debris from a stone structure dated by anonymous Byzantine folles Class A2 was discovered 40 cm deep in the central part of the fortification (Trench XX). The lower s... Read More
- 2013 PLISKA (Pavel Georgiev – pavel_g@gbg.bg, Radoslav Vasilev, Tihomir Tihov, Gergana Ilieva) Debris was discovered over an area of c. 20 sq. m located in Trench XX, in the middle of the Small Timber Fortification. The debris consisted fragmentary mortar, bric... Read More
- 2014 PLISKA (Pavel Georgiev – pavel_g@gbg.bg, Tihomir Tihov, Radoslav Vasilev) In Trench XX the dug out structure with a well faced with stones were explored. Sherds of the 10th – 11th centuries were found, including a sherd from an amphora with a stamp with th... Read More
- 2015 PLISKA (Pavel Georgiev – pavel_g@gbg.bg, Tihomir Tihov, Gergana Ilieva, Radoslav Vasilev) In Trench XXI, three strata were documented to the northwest of Baths No. 2. Trenches and postholes of timber structures were documented in the middle stratum and a d... Read More
- 2017 PLISKA (Pavel Georgiev – pavel_g@gbg.bg, Tihomir Tihov, Gergana Ilieva, Radoslav Vasilev) In Trench XXI, six sunken-floored houses (Nos. 15 – 20) were explored. Two ovens were discovered in House No. 15; an iron ax, a lead plate-amulet with a Cyrillic insc... Read More
- 2018 PLISKA (Pavel Georgiev – pavel_g@gbg.bg, Tihomir Tihov, Gergana Ilieva) In Trench XXI, the upper stratum of the 10th – 11th centuries AD was entirely excavated. A Christian burial of a young man was discovered. Querns were discovered in Houses Nos. 2, 3A a... Read More
- 2019 PLISKA (Pavel Georgiev – pavel_g@gbg.bg, Tihomir Tihov, Gergana Ilieva) The foundations of the Small Timber Fortification was 2.20 – 2.30 m wide and consisted of two parallel trenches. The outer trench accommodated a stone structure and the foundation of t... Read More

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