OTTOMAN POTTERY DISCOVERED IN HÂRȘOVA FORTRESS IN YEAR 2020
OTTOMAN POTTERY DISCOVERED IN HÂRȘOVA FORTRESS IN YEAR 2020

Summary/Abstract: During the preventive archeological research carried out in 2020, for Restoration, Conservation, Arrangement and Cultural Tourism Capitalization Project of Carsium fortress, Hâşova city, Constanţa County, two sections were drawn near Turnul Comandant (Commander’s Tower) that started from the current level of treading. The researches followed the foundations of the tower, occasion which in SIB and CAS IB was discovered levels of habitation that can be dated very clearly to the XVIIIth century after the ceramic and metallic material and only destroyed levels from XV–XVII centuries, found mixed in pits. Thus Kutahya pottery, cups, bowls and small plates could be included in this dwelling, but in the case of vessels of Iznik and Damascus or Miletus it could be established that they were dislocated by the subsequent arrangements that the fortress suffers, without being able to say clearly whether it is housing or trade in these objects.

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