DE LA BORDEI LA PALAT. CELE MAI VECHI FORME DE LOCUIRE LA CURTEA VECHE
FROM DWELLING TO PALACE. THE OLDEST FORMS OF HABITATION AT THE OLD COURT

Summary/Abstract: In 2019 and 2020, having as main goal the clarification and completion of historical data insufficiently researched in areas from Old Court Palace we started to research the areas at the north side of the palace. The first phase of archaeological research revealed in the north-eastern area of the Palace (2019) a construction with adobe walls. Afterwards, in 2020, this time in the northwest, two ovens and a rectangular shape dwelling were discovered near the houses built by Gheorghe Duca in the 18th Century. From a museographic and historical point of view, the remains of these constructions are extremely important, not only for the fact that they were discovered inside the ruins of Old Court Palace, but also because they document important phases in the historical evolution of the city. Therefore, the research revealed a dwelling with the location of the oven on the northeast corner (6th-7th centuries AD) and two ovens, one being a pottery kiln and the other a bread oven (9th-10th centuries AD). Also, the discovery of the adobe structure dated at the end of the 16th and the beginning of the 17th Century, based on two Ottoman ceramic fragments, certify the presence of annex buildings in the area outside the palace walls. The archaeological features described and explained in this study were not destructively researched. They were documented through plans, drawings, and photographs made for each stage of archaeological work. Eventually, sacrificing the new data that an exhaustive archaeological excavation offers, these historical findings were preserved in situ in a preliminary stage, with the purpose of highlighting them as one of the multitudes of attractions that the Old Court Palace future museum will offer to visitors.

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