Abstract
The Stroyno Excavation Project (SEP) takes place in the Yambol Region, Elhovo municipality, in close vicinity to a village Stroyno, on a site called Yurta. The project runs under the supervision of Stefan Bakardzhiev, the director of the Regional Historical Museum in Yambol (RIM) and in cooperation with PhD students of Charles University in Prague, Petra Tušlová and Barbora Weissová.
The site of Yurta was described for the first time in 1978 in 'Archaeological monuments of the Yambol Region' and excavated in years 2006 and 2007 by RIM in short rescue excavation. More than 50 exceptional finds with no definite context were found on the site during past decades , including a depot of 29 silver coins; marble roman-doric capital; a part of bronze military diploma of Moesian fleet veteran, or a part of a marble slab with a depiction of a Thracian horsemen.
Based on the previous excavation and findings, Yurta was identified as a roman vicus, unfortified settlement of veteran soldiers, permanently inhabited from the 1st till the 4th c. AD.
In 2014 cooperation between RIM and SEP started resulting in three years excavation project. Outcomes of the first year will be discussed in the presentation.