"Preliminary Report on the Training Excavations at the Balagrae Settlement During the Spring Seasons of 2018 and 2019."

Abstract

This report deals with the archaeological training excavations at the Balaghrai site during the spring 2018 and spring 2019 seasons, the purpose of which was to train the students of the Department of Archaeology on scientific archaeological detection, and how to document the archaeological objects and architectural structures revealed by the excavation work, according to the methodology of single-content excavation, and to train them on documentation by writing, drawing and photographing, which resulted in Writing these two reports documenting the architectural structures, archaeological deposits, collecting finds such as pottery and coins, trying to date them, and linking them with the revealed walls and architectural structures and the stratigraphic sequence represented in Trench H2, and comparing them with what was found in previous excavations, especially the excavations of Sidi Akhrebesh, we concluded from this that the site of these excavations reflects the historical periods from the beginning of the first century BC to the fifth century AD. This site also shows the stages of recovery during the first century to the middle of the second century AD, and the relapse by monitoring the natural disasters represented by the earthquake of 262 AD and the devastating earthquake that occurred in 365 AD, then the continuation of settlement after the middle of the fourth century until the middle of the seventh century AD.