Vol. 3 No. 13 (2025)
Water Divides – Water Connects: Roman military, commercial and cultural contacts between the Middle Danube Region and the Black Sea

Evidence of fishing from the excavations of the Roman fortress of Sexaginta Prista (Ruse, Bulgaria)

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  • Varbin Varbanov
Varbin Varbanov
National Archaeological Institute with Museum, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17204/dissarch.2025.63

Published 2026-01-30

Keywords

  • fishing net-weights,
  • cast net sinkers,
  • Late Roman Period,
  • Sexaginta Prista

How to Cite

Varbanov, V. (2026). Evidence of fishing from the excavations of the Roman fortress of Sexaginta Prista (Ruse, Bulgaria). Dissertationes Archaeologicae, 3(13), 63–73. https://doi.org/10.17204/dissarch.2025.63

Abstract

The excavations of the Roman fortress of Sexaginta Prista (Ruse, Bulgaria) were carried out in 1976–1978, 2005–2010, and 2015–2022, respectively, revealing strata associated with the Late Hellenistic, Roman, Late Roman, Medieval and Modern periods. The subject of this paper is the 38 lead fishing net weights (sinkers) from the recovered find material, almost all of which were found in 4th–6th-century AD structures and layers.

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