Summary (English)
In 2012, the researchers worked at the eastern part of ash hill 10 where 263 m2 was dug out. In total, three pit-houses were explored in this area.
Pit-house 4 measuring 3.65 × 4.1 m and 1.2 m deep, had an oval form. It was filled with numerous deposits of kitchen wares and also is distinguished by several skeletons of the sacrificial animals that were deposited at the different levels of this complex.
Pit-house 5 measuring 5 × 4.7 m and 1.4 m deep, had an oval form. The majority of the collected artefacts consists of handmade local pottery and scattered animal bones.
Pit-house 6 measuring 7.7 × 5.7 m and up to 1.75 m deep, had an oval form. An entrance was traced at the southern wall. Additional household pit 0.75 m deep was dug out in the centre of the dwelling. It was filled with a lot of daub fragments together with kitchen wares. Another interesting feature is a line of small postholes 5 cm in diameter that crossed the floor. Possibly, they remained from a light timber frame wall that divided the dwelling into two parts – for living and for husbandry utensils. The pit-house was filled with layers of ashy soil together with the debris of everyday life, mostly scattered pottery fragments. Several skeletons of the sacrificial animals were traced at the different horizons of the object. Possibly they mark certain stages of dumping the object.
A cultural layer up to 1.1 m thick was deposited above the described dwellings. It contained rich and numerous materials including local and Greek wares, different tools like spindle whorls, metal adornments such as bronze pins, bracelets, earrings, etc.
Objects and layers explored within ash hill 10 and beyond are lay within the wide chronological frames from the late 7th to early 5th c. BC.
- Shelekhan Oleksandr - Institute of Archaeology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine 
Director
- Iryna Shramko - V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
- Stanislav Zadnikov - V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
Team
- Vladislav Bondarenko - V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Museum of Archeology and Ethnography of Slobidska Ukraine
Research Body
- Музей археології і етнографії Слобідської України Харківського національного університету ім. В.Н. Каразіна / Museum of archeology and ethnography of Slobidska Ukraine, V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National University
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