Sixteenth and seventeenth century wooden pavement remains found during extensive roadwork on Tverskaya Street will become a part of the open-air museum in the center of Moscow. The pavement is made of logs 15 centimeters in diameter, which were put in several layers. According to the city's official website, the head of the Moscow Department of Cultural Heritage, Alexey Emelyanov, said that the pavement samples will undergo an accurate examination for dendrochronological dating.
A fence fragment of the female Strastnoy Monastery was also discovered not far from the pavement remains. Archaeologists found out that the fence of the Monastery, which was set up in 1654 and demolished in 1937 during the reconstruction of the street, runs along Pushkin Square for about 90 meters.
Archaeologists have also found a number of other interesting relics: stove tiles, pottery fragments, coins and crucifixes that will also appear in window cases at the open-air museum.
