Grave - Zlatitrap village

Overview

The Mechkyur (Proslavska), "Flat" settlement mound is located west of today's district of Plovdiv - Proslav, on the right side of the road to the village of Zlatitrap. It is the best preserved settlement mound and plays a decisive role in the formation of the settlement center Kendrisos - Evpolpiada - Pulpudeva - Plovdiv. The ecological situation is favorable - southeast of the prehistoric settlement and mound the Parvenetska River passes, and to the north the navigable and high-water Maritsa River, to the west is the village of Zlati Trap, to which land is now. According to K. Irichek, the origin of the name is explained by the gold mining of the two rivers of the Rhodopes, Parvenetska and Vacha, whose deposits are located in the land of the Neolithic roads. 60-70 m north of the "Flat Mound" was discovered part of a billion-dollar column erected by the administration of Philippopolis. The first excavations of the Mechkyur Mound in today's Proslav district were made by French archaeologists in 1899-1902 and the archeological finds were collected in the Louvre Museum. From the excavations conducted in 1946, P. Detev concluded that "we should date the origin of this mound to the Stone Age." . After 24 years, he corrected this dating - "the village was inhabited from the late Neolithic to the end of the Bronze Age." South of the settlement mound there is a huge prehistoric settlement, 700 m - north south and 500 m - east west /, which is crossed by today's asphalt road. North of the Flat Mound, there are traces of an old settlement and a necropolis of three mounds. Everywhere in the Plovdiv sunny and fertile field small and large traces of settlements, settlement mounds, burial mounds are found, which shows a continuous life from the Neolithic / 7th millennium BC / to the present day. Nowadays, the settlement mound has a preserved height of 10 m, diameter 130 m and an approximate area of ​​10 acres. When compiling an archeological map for the Maritsa Valley and the Rhodopes in the 1970s, Bozhidar Chaparov found in the inventory books of the Archaeological Institute and Museum materials from this mound or surrounding settlements. They would be useful in future research: inv.№2460 - 2462, clay and glass vessels /inv.№3005 - 3096, flint knives, glass bracelets /, inv.№ 2822 - stone with grooves /, inv.№3595 - jar /, inv. № 3596 - sacristy. Due to the different research interests, there is a lack of more detailed information on these. Probably these materials are from the archeological excavations of the French at the beginning of the last century, from the prehistoric V. Mikov or other isolated finds. They are important because they are from a significant suburb of ancient Kendrisos (Plovdiv).