Near by 15 km southeastern direction to Harmanli , between the villages Cherna mogila, Belasica and Biser is the big elevation ” Gradishte”. During the 1986 with financial support by the town council at this place has been started examines of Thracian stronghold and two early Byzantine and Mиddle Age Christiandom temples. Big treasure hunters excavations are fact for this object also..
Some of the finds from the Middle age are fine red ceramic, fragments of glass bracelets, Middle age ceramic from the ХІ century, 4 count of small iron gads of arrows and ceramic from the early Byzantine epoch (V-VІІ c.)
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The main reason of the archaeological excavations at the Middle Age town Cherven is taking much more clean notion for the erect buildings and division into periods of the inhabitance at the saddle back between the two parts of the external town- the fortified and the unfortified, has told the director of the studies Stoyan Jordanov.
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