Aнтични обекти в градската територия на Хераклея Синтика

Abstract

In 2020, an archaeological monitoring was carried out along the optical cable route between km 110+800–115+200. This route passes through several sites included in the Archaeological Map of Bulgaria. The information about them was updated. Between km 112+050 and km 112+150 we registered cultural layer and coins from the second half of the 1st c. and the first quarter of the 5th c. AD. The remains of two rooms of the Roman period were excavated at km 112+250. They are the part of a settlement falling within the urban territory of Heraclea Sintica. The materials found (pottery sherds, terracotta and coins) indicate that the site was inhabited from the second half of the 1st c. AD to the first quarter of the 5th c. AD. The chronology of the habitation corresponds to the second, third and fourth settlement periods of the development of the ancient city of Heraclea Sintica. At km 112+320 we registered a stratigraphic section with three stages of habitation from the Roman period. The study of the pottery from the two rooms at km 112+250 shed some light on the human development in southwest Bulgaria in Antiquity, and especially the districts within the urban territory of Heraclea Sintica.

Keywords

• Roman pottery
• Heraclea Sintica
• terra sigillata
• terracotta