<br /> CERAMICS FROM MIDDLE AGE SETTLEMENTS IN BRESTA LOCALITY NEAR THE VILLAGE OF ALTIMIR<br /> (BYALA SLATINA MUNICIPALITY, NORTH-WEST BULGARIA)<br />
Journal Title: Acta Terrae Septemcastrensis - Year 2009, Vol 8, Issue 1
Abstract
The article considers ceramics discovered in two Middle Age dwellings, studied in 2001 in Altimir-Bresta site (North-Western Bulgaria). For the time being these two semi-dugouts are the only constructions of this type, described in terms of stratigraphy on the territory of modern North-Western Bulgaria, which confers extraordinary informative value to materials excavated there. The technological, metric and morphological analyses of ceramics show that vessels with slightly pronounced high neck and non-profiled mouth rim drawn outwards prevail in the complex. The vessel silhouette is elongated with maximum widening in the middle of the body and the decoration consists of simple, shallow and irregularly spread motifs. All vessels, with no exception, are produced on slow-turning potter's wheel. Comparative analysis with materials from North and North-Eastern Bulgaria shows that the considered complex may be dated within the frames from the late 7th to the early 9th c. With these characteristics both dwellings and the material therefrom are a good evidence of existence of civil 8th c. settlement in the region of the well-know 'border' ramparts (Hayredin, Ostrov and Lom), accepted in the literature as military protection zone by the early 9th c.
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Luka Krassimira
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