AUTHOR: Costel ILIE, Adrian-Ionuț ADAMESCU, Tudor MANDACHE
NEGRILEȘTI ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE. PREVENTIVE RESEARCHES CARRIED AT THE POINT „KINDERGARTEN”
Danubius, XXXVII, Galaţi, 2019, pp. 69-84.
Abstract
The preventive archaeological research undertaken at the Negrilești site, Galați county, was carried as a result of the imminence of potential disruption of the archaeological strata by the construction of a new kindergarten in the B4-B5 topographic sector (The Schoolyard) of the archaeological site.
The archaeological research, which began in 2018, led to the excavation of a total area of 700 square meters, divided into 16 areas, SG1-SG16, of various dimensions. 97 archaeological complexes dating from the Bronze Age (dwellings, sewage pits, pottery kilns), the 4th century AD (dwellings, pits, fire installations), the 9th-10th centuries (five dwellings, four stonemason’s hearths), as well as Modern Era structures, have been discovered. The research also uncovered 34 funeral complexes, one from the 4th century AD, two from the 9th-10th century and 31 belonging to the medieval necropolis of the village of Negrilești, dating from the 16th-17th centuries.