The production center of metal art at the village of Nadarevo, Targovishte Municipality (advance notice)
The production center of metal art at the village of Nadarevo, Targovishte Municipality (advance notice)

Summary/Abstract: The site is located in the lands of the village of Nadarevo and the village of Dalgach, Targovishte region. Its localization was done during field visits and borehole surveys conducted in 1992. Movable monuments and recorded stationary facilities establish the presence of manufacturing activity at this location. The site is synchronous and identical to the other two art metal centers - near the village of Novosel, Shumen Municipality and the village of Zlatar, Preslav Municipality, whose research was completed in 2009 and 2020. The initiation of such a systematic archaeological survey of the third center in the vicinity of Preslav would contribute to the clarification of the production activity during the period of the early Middle Ages, the scale of which is, without a doubt, the result of a purposeful and well-considered policy of the central authority. The results of the conducted geophysical survey of the production center near Nadarevo shows a detailed survey using the geomagnetic method, the results of which should be confirmed by the archaeological survey. As a research in these sectors, four foundations of furnaces were revealed, heavily destroyed by the mechanized cultivation of the terrain. The two ovens are small, clay-bild, and stand a meter apart and are located to the north of the stone oven. A total of 64 finds were found during the investigations, mostly of bronze and less of iron, as well as numerous melts, slags and drops of oxidized metal. Most of the objects were found outside the survey sectors, in the plowed layer, which is due to the disturbance of the terrain by the continuous mechanized cultivation of the terrain and the spreading of the material over it.

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