Evaluations of Iron Finds From the Fatsa Cıngırt Kayası Excavations (original) (raw)

2019, Settlements and Necropoleis of the Black Sea and its Hinterland in Antiquity. Select papers from the third international conference ‘The Black Sea in Antiquity and Tekkeköy: An Ancient Settlement on the Southern Black Sea Coast’, 27-29 October 2017, Tekkeköy, Samsun

This paper aims to present iron finds that were obtained during excavations conducted in Cıngırt Kayası, which is located in Yapraklı village, Fatsa/Ordu, in the Eastern Black Sea Region of Turkey. Cıngırt Kayası was part of the area where the Chalybes, a tribe famous for its ironworking, lived in antiquity. The iron finds have been categorised according to their function, and they have been evaluated in terms of their periodisation, typology and purpose using excavation data and parallel materials. One of the main goals of this paper is, in light of these finds, to contribute to the archaeological analysis of the Eastern Black Sea Region of Turkey, which has been relatively overlooked in archaeological studies.