{"id":1626,"date":"2017-10-10T11:14:04","date_gmt":"2017-10-10T11:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archaeology.sa\/en\/?p=1626"},"modified":"2017-10-10T11:14:47","modified_gmt":"2017-10-10T11:14:47","slug":"mediaeval-ring-found-during-work-on-water-supply-in-bulgarias-assenovgrad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/?p=1626","title":{"rendered":"Mediaeval ring found during work on water supply in Bulgaria\u2019s Assenovgrad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1627\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/11.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"604\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/11.jpg 604w, wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/11-300x135.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 604px) 100vw, 604px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Work on the water supply in the Bulgarian town of Assenovgrad has led to the finding of a mediaeval ring and ceramics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Archaeologists called to the site, in the town about 20km from Bulgaria\u2019s second-largest city Plovdiv, found the ring and the ceramics after workers found a fortress wall while digging below a street in central Assenovgrad.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">The ring is made of copper with an inlaid stone, probably mountain crystal. Given the size of the ring, it was worn by a woman or a child, archaeologists believe. The ring will be restored.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">The ceramics were largely broken. It appears that when the original water pipes were laid in the 1960s, much the mediaeval archaeological objects were destroyed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1628\" src=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2.jpg 600w, wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/2-300x140.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Ivan Dukov, head of the history museum in Assenovgrad, said that the finds were mixed up in a way that suggested that earlier work at the site had mingled together objects from several different periods of history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">The fortress wall dates from the time that there was a village called Stamimanos at the site, between the 12th and 14th centuries CE.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">Following restoration, the finds will be exhibited at the Assenovgrad historical museum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\">(<i>Screenshots: BNT<\/i>)<\/p>\n<div id=\"ads-before-comments\">\u00a0The Sofia Globe<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Work on the water supply in the Bulgarian town of Assenovgrad has led to the finding of a mediaeval ring and ceramics. Archaeologists called to the site, in the town about 20km from Bulgaria\u2019s second-largest city Plovdiv, found the ring and the ceramics after workers found a fortress wall while digging below a street in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1627,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1626"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1630,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1626\/revisions\/1630"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.archaeology.sa\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}