AUTHORS: Costel ILIE, Paul CIOBOTARU
NEGRILEŞTI ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE, GALAŢI COUNTY. THE PREVENTIVE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH FROM 2022-2023
Danubius, XLII, Galati, 2024, pp. 7-52.
Abstract
The preventive archaeological research in 2022-2023 was carried out in several points of the site, namely in the topographic sector B6 (Gym), the topographic sector B7 (Schoolyard), the topographic sector C5-C6 (Schoolyard) and the topographic sector C3 (Pine Tree), where numerous archaeological complexes and structures from different historical periods were unearthed. The preventive research was determined by the need to achieve investment objectives by the Negrilesti City Hall, as well as by the need to save some complexes located in areas of the site damaged by unauthorized digging. In the area where the school gym will be built, research continued in the SSP area (34 m / 24 m), topographic sector B6, surveyed by extending the initial surface to the west by 10 m / 16 m (SSP-V), by 20 m / 4 m to the south (SSP-S) and by 12 m / 3 m to the N (SSP-N), the latter in order to accommodate the installation of a water pipe. To cover the entire route of this pipe, two other surfaces were also surveyed in the B7 topographic sector, south of the school, Sp.3 (10 m / 3 m) and Sp.4 (30 m / 1.2 m). Two other areas, STP.1 (5 m / 4 m) and STP.2 (6 m / 6 m), were also researched at the request of the Negrilesti City Hall, in the C5-C6 topographic sector, in order to change the location of two electricity poles in the school yard. Moreover, in the 2023 campaign, research has been conducted on two areas, Cas1/2023/P (8 m / 4 m), Cas.2/2023/P (4 m / 4 m), in the topographic sector C3 (Pine Tree), where unauthorized topsoil borrow pits were dug. In the researched areas, which covered a total surface of 445 sqm, 80 residential complexes, household pits, dwellings, domestic and ceramic kilns, as well as building structures, dated from the late Bronze Age to the modern era, were discovered. Two burial tombs were also discovered, one from the 3rd century AD and the other from the modern period.