Rescue excavations in Tallinn Vabaduse Square and Ingermanland bastion 2008-2009

Päästekaevamised Tallinnas Vabaduse väljakul ja Ingeri bastionil 2008-2009

Abstract

From March 2008 until July 2009 various large-scale rescue excavations took place in Tallinn Vabaduse Square and Ingermanland bastion 2008-2009. As a whole, it was the biggest archaeological urban one-year dig ever undertaken in Estonia, altogether ca. 13,000 m² was investigated. New information was got for both the flank of the bastion of Ingermanland and the tenaille in Vabaduse Square, which was not available from written records. A very large area by Tallinn’s standards – ca. 5,000 m² – of medieval and early modern suburb was studied with a historic road pavement and building remains attached to it. The article includes analysis of the collected fish bones, plant macrofossils and pollen samples.