In 2007 rescue excavations were conducted in the area of cellular communication tower in the natural boundary Shantsi. The excavation area is 14 × 10 m (140 m2), oriented west-east. Three features were recovered during the excavations.
Burial 1 (the early Iron Age). Located on the border of the squares В-Г/3. A cluster of small calcinated bones (more than 20 fragments) and fragments of the hand-made pottery (rims, walls) were found at 0.65 m depth. The diameter of the cluster was up to 1 m, no burial construction was found. Separate bones and fragments were found up to 0.75 m deep. In the south end of the burial there were two large calcinated bones – a fragment of the vault of skull (3.3 × 2.5 cm) and a fragment of a tubular bone (5 cm long; possibly a hand), a cluster of ceramics, as well as two large fragments of the lower part of a hand-made vessel nearby.This was made of clay with admixtures of gravel and sand., fired black, grey and yellow with an unevenly smoothed surface.. Under the rim, the vessel was decorated with a hand-made molding, triangular at the intersection and segmented with finger indentions. Along its bottom part there was a number of circular dimples which form flat \“pearls\” from the inside. Southwards of the burial 1 there were found a few fragments of human bones, a patella in particular. Another arthral bone (possibly foot) was found in a cultural layer, a bit above the burial 1.
Burial 2 (the period of the late Middle Ages 17th – 18th centuries). In the cultural layer there were found the remnants of a wooden coffin.
A Ditch (chronology is not clear). Along the eastern edge of the excavation (line of squares Ж) there was found a ditch more than 2 m wide, traced for 10 m. The ditch was oriented east-west, running in the direction of the precipice of the Kaniv storage reservoir. It was 2.5 m deep, the overhead contour was washed out in black earth. The walls were sloping, smoothly narrowing to the bottom. The filling was black, practically homogeneous. In it were found animal bones and several fragments of ceramics of different periods, particularly of Kyiv Rus and of the late Middle Ages.
Altogether, in the area of the excavation there were found 20 fragments of pottery of the early Iron Age (the end of 8th – the beginning of 6th centuries AD), 3 fragments of the vessels walls of the early Middle Age (6th c.), 8 fragments of the vessels of the Old Russian time and the late Middle Age (7th-8th and 17th – 18th c. AD), and also 10 animal bones.
The site thus consisted of a multi-layered settlement and cemeteries. The cremation urn burials of the early Iron Age belong to one of the early stages of the occupation of the territory, the settlement dated from the late Bronze to the early Iron Age. The next stage of the settlement of the sight belonged to the early Middle Age – 6th century.
The presence of an Old Russian cultural layer was also confirmed, the fragments of walls of pottery are dated within the limits of 12th – 13th c. The last historical period of the occupation was related to the cemetery of the 17th – 18th c., some findings of wooden coffins, human bones from inhumations and small fragments of grey-smoked funeral ceramics of the late Middle Age were associated with it. The traces of the remains of the late Middle Age burials were also found farther over, in the section of the storage reservoir 300-400 m from the excavation area.
The purpose and the chronology of the ditch remained unclear. It could be related both to the system of sites of ancient settlements of the early Iron Age or Old Russian outposts, as well as to the late Middle Age cemeteries.