Hârșova – extra muros East. The craft district of the early medieval fortified settlement.
Hârșova – extra muros East. The craft district of the early medieval fortified settlement.

Summary/Abstract: In the second half of 2020 for almost six months, a preventive archaeological research was carried out in Hârșova-Carsium for the realization of a restoration, conservation and cultural-tourist arrangement project. One of the target areas is located on the eastern side of the rocky promontory on which the fortress is located, in the extra muros area, near Dobruja Street. Archaeological excavations here have revealed, in the southern half of the investigated perimeter, an arrangement with a craft purpose, whose inventory revealed its use as a product workshop and repairment of metal objects. Its inventory also included an ax with side ‘fins’ at the glove hole. The new discoveries show that this area was organized in the early medieval period as a craft district of the fortress; the workshop is added to the two ceramic kilns researched in 1995. The organization of a special space appears as a result of the development of the settlement and reveals the presence of specialized craftsmen in Hârșova in the 10th-12th centuries.

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