Горны на курганах (открытие средневекового металлургического квартала в Пскове при раскопках 2016—2019 гг.)
Metallurgical Furnaces on the Burial Mounds (discovery of the medieval metallurgy district in Pskov during excavations in 2016—2019)

Author(s): Elena V. Salmina, Sergey A. Salmin
Subject(s): History, Archaeology, Economic history, Middle Ages, 13th to 14th Centuries, 15th Century, 16th Century
Published by: Издательский дом Stratum, Университет «Высшая антропологическая школа»
Keywords: Medieval Rus; Pskov; metalworking; industrial district; metallurgical furnace; metallurgical hearth;jewelry;
Summary/Abstract: The rescue archaeological excavations, held on the territory of the former thermal electric power plant in Pskov prior to its renovation, revealed a medieval “metallurgy quarters” which existed on this territory in the 13th—16th centuries beyond the fortification walls. The manufacturing center occurred on the site of the burial grounds of the 10th — first half of the 11th cc. thus having destroyed many burial mounds. It is indicative that the raw materials used by the local metallurgists contained a significant amount of fragmented and deformed jewelry, some of which may have highly likely come from the destroyed burials. To date, no clusters of industrial complexes that occupied such an area in the absence of residential development have been found on the territory of Medieval Pskov. The discovery of such a production quarter in Pskov allows us to revise both the history of urban development and the organization of production processes in one of the largest urban centers of North-Western Russia.

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