Archaeological monitoring of dredging works for the construction of “Gaztrade” SA port in Beloslav lake

Abstract

Between March and December 2019 an archaeological monitoring of the dredging works for the construction of “Gaztrade” SA port was carried out in Beloslav Lake, Varna district (fig. 1). According to the project, a passage (150 m wide, 195–322 m long and 10 m deep) was dug to make a deep water
connection with the navigable channel linking the Beloslav and Varna lakes (fig. 1.2). The objective of the archaeological monitoring was to make sure no archaeological structures would be affected by this large-scale underwater dredging. The main challenge was to effectively carry out the monitoring and fulfil its objectives while complying with the technology used for hydraulic dredging and pumping the extracted mass on the shore (fig. 1.3). No archaeological structures have been found to be affected by the port construction. Only some stray archaeological materials were recorded and documented: several pottery fragments from different ages, animal bones, pieces of processed wood. None of these archaeological materials could be linked to a specific archaeological site.

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ORCID for Pavel, Yordanov Georgiev: orcid.org/0000-0003-2744-2055

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