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Excavations at El Merj (Ancient Barca) – A First Report on the 1990 Season

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2015

J. N. Dore  and
Derek Kennet
J. N. Dore
Affiliation:
Newcastle upon Tyne
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Abstract

Trench 330. Below recent structures the remains of two (possibly related) complexes of buildings were uncovered. Building I was a sunken, probably rectangular, courtyard bounded by a colonnade. Building II was mud brick. Seven major phases were identified. Pottery suggests a terminus post quem in the sixteenth or seventeenth centuries AD.

Trench 340. Below very recent features was a brick barrack block, which probably dates to the 1930s. Below this was a building constructed on mud brick, of at least two principal phases, probably of similar date to Buildings I and II in Trench 330.

The Finds. Twenty-three coins were recovered. Two are probably comparatively early in date (Abbasid or Fatimid). Considerable quantities of pottery were recovered (see Appendices I and II). Other finds of note were a glass weight, probably of Fatimid date, and a small head carved in bone.

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Libyan Studies , Volume 22 , 1991 , pp. 91 - 105
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Copyright © Society for Libyan Studies 1991

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