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metallurgical production of the
beginning of our era in the Tula

Archaeologists found

region

Found samples

Archaeologists of the Kulikovo Pole carried out during 2019 on the sites of ancient
State Museum-Reserve discovered places settlements: in the ancient settlements of
of metal production and processing related Strakhovo, Ketri, near the village of Malaya
to the 1st-3rd centuries AD in the ancient Strekalovka. There were discovered iron
settlements in the Tula region. arrowheads, household items, jewelry, clay
This indicates that the traditions of horns for smelting metal.
metallurgy arose several centuries before The emergence of metallurgy,
it appeared in the region on an industrial according to Vorontsov, was facilitated by
scale. Alexey Vorontsov, Scientific Secretary the presence at a small depth of deposits of
of the Kulikovo Field Museum-Reserve: iron ore - brown ore, as well as the forest
“Exploring the monuments of archeology, from which coal was made for melting
we deliberately metal.
did not look for Archaeologists of the museum-reserve
any monuments have developed a three-year program to
оf metallurgy, but study the sites of ancient metallurgical
when examining production.
the territory of the
Tula settlements,
they began to
come across. We
are interested
and now we can
build a chain Alexey Vorontsov
of settlements
of artisan metallurgists, starting from the
I-III centuries. AD and up to the XIV-XV
centuries of the pre-urban time, when the
Tula Arms Settlement arose and metallurgy
became one of the important occupations
of the inhabitants, later metallurgical plants
appeared. Two modern metallurgical plants
are still operating in Tula,” TASS quoted Location on the map
Vorontsov.
Archaeological expeditions were TASS.RU

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