New Class of the Rock-cut Wine-presses in the South-western Crimea
Journal: Materials in Archaeology History and Ethnography of Tauria
Year: 2024

There are more than 230 rock-cut wine-presses from the Early Mediaeval Period located in the south-western Taurica, at the local “cave towns” (Mangup, Eski-Kermen, Kachi-Kal’on, and others) or in their environs. This source base allows the one to develop a classification with four main classes of rock-cut wine-presses (named I–IV) identified. As the new devices for the primary processing of grapes in the Bakhchisarai administrative area, structurally different from the previously known monuments