Tanais, Russia. Excavations in 2011

Abstract

Fieldwork carried out in 2011 (27 June – 24 July) involved a team of 26 participants including students (from the University of Warsaw and the Jagiellonian University), volunteers from Poland and academics from Poland, Russia and Italy. 1 There were two main areas of excavations: the defensive ditch, where the fill of the ditch was removed, and the so-called Turkish rampart (Fig. 1). on the Turkish rampart the test trench from 2010 at the entrance to the town was completed and another trial pit was dug in the Street b–N. Wall 13 was cleared in Squares 103 and 110, testing a hypothesisabout the existence of an entrance to Locus B.