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The medieval fortress /beginning of 9th – beginning of 11th c./ near the village of Okorsh, Silistra province

  • TITLU în română: Fortăreaţa medievală (începutul secolului al IX-lea - începutul secolului al XI-lea) de lângă satul Okorsh, regiunea Silistra
  • Subiect: The fortress near the village of Okorsh is situated on an tongue-shaped hill on the right shore of the dry valley Senebir, about 45 km south-west of Drastar (Silistra), 10 km south of the fortresses near Ruino and about 25 km west of the fortresses near Skala and Tsar Asen /Fig. 1/. It has the shape of an irregular pentagon, covering an area of over 45 decares. During archaeological excavations in the period 1997-1999 it was found that originally after the beginning of the 9th c. an earth fortification was situated here, defended from north-east with two ramparts with ditches in front of them. An Avar belt ornamentation, rings, adornments and a coin of imperator Basil I /Fig. 11, 18-20/ are evidence for inhabitation during the 9th c. After the beginning of the 10th c. the earth fortification is replaced by a stone fortress. Some ten dug-outs are investigated and dozens of adornments, crosses and ceramics from 10th c. are found in it /Fig. 12-13, 15-17/. The stone fortress is destroyed and burned down at the end of the 10th c. Dwellings, ceramics, a Pecheneg cauldron, crosses, adornments and coins – follises class A-2 /Fig. 14/ shows that at the beginning of the 11th c. it is sparsely populated. The fortress is finally abandoned after the Pecheneg invasion in 1036.
  • Limba de redactare: engleză
  • Vezi publicația: Cultură şi civilizaţie la Dunărea de Jos
  • Editura: Muzeul Dunării de Jos
  • Loc publicare: Călăraşi
  • Anul publicaţiei: 2011
  • Referinţă bibliografică pentru nr. revistă: XXVIII; anul 2011; subtitlu: Orient şi Occident
  • Paginaţia: 220-239
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