Stone-Mining and Stone-Working in the Mediaeval Town atop of the Plateau of Eski-Kermen
Journal: Materials in Archaeology History and Ethnography of Tauria
Year: 2023

Archaeological researches at the plateau of Eski-Kermen has recorded the traces of large-scale construction works carried out when the castle was built in the late sixth century and later, in the tenth and eleventh centuries, when several homesteads in the town quarters were demolished and small aisleless churches were erected at their places. The urban building was directly connected with stone-mining and stone-working. The most noticeable traces of ashlar-mining on the plateau appear in the si