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Market Square Town Excavations in Turku, Finland, in 2018-2022 (2023)
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This is an abstract from the session entitled "Poverty And Plenty In The North", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Large scale (c. 2 hectare) town excavations were carried out at the Market Square in Turku in 2018-2022. The excavations in revealed well preserved layers and structures more than 20 different town plots inhabited by mainly merchants, craftsmen and military and civil officers. The excavation area is mainly moist clay and organic material is...