In area of 215 m² in size and 1.5 – 4.0 in depth was excavated during the rescue campaign in the territory of Ust’-Almins’k cemetery in 2007. There were found 32 burial constructions (2 ossuaries, 9 burials with undercuts, 16 ground burials with stone overlaps, 4 simple ground burials and one slabbed burial. There was also found a horse burial. The ossuary and 13 graves were fully or partially robbed in ancient times.
The most of the burials were found in excavation area 1. 16 burials and an ossuary were investigated in the area of 65 m². Nine of them were burials of children and juveniles. The burials were mostly oriented northeast — southwest. In some cases the burials overlapped. Some burials are an additional burials. Among the grave goods were recorded mainly beads, pendants, bronze bracelets, rings, fibulas, bells, mirrors, red-lacquered and hand-made wares. Judging from the finds the area was used for burial in the second half of the 1st — first half of the 3rd cent. AD.
The ossuary 944 with multilayer burials (no less than 24) and a wide chronological range (second half of the 1st — first half of the 3rd cent. AD) is of particular interest. The last three burials were made much later than the others. Almost all the dead were put into coffins which could be well identified due to the existence of the wooden remains. Among the grave goods were found golden eye-plates, leaves and parts of the funeral wreath, a pendant with garnet insertions, earrings, a bronze fibula-brooch without enamel, a disk-like mirror, a bronze plate, the set of faience figured pendants that indicated that quite prosperous people were buried in the ossuary. The grave goods were less expensive in the middle and upper layers, although for example an amphora, red-glazed and glass ware, bronze jewelry, an enamel fibula and a spear head were found.
Burial 957 with an undercut is also of particular interest, as it was used twice, the second time in the 5th century AD, for the burial of a Hun burial. The grave goods consisted of a bronze vase, the bone plates for a bow, the set of iron arrowheads, a dagger with the sheath decorated with golden plates and cornelian insertions, a set of iron bits, golden decorations of the bridle and the saddle, golden covers of animal figures, and a belt set. These goods were similar to the Hunnic antiquities of the Southern Ukraine and Northern Caucasus.
The most informative in the excavation area 2 is an ossuary, 940, with a trapezium shaped chamber. The ossuary was robbed in ancient times as well as in modern times. Some grave goods were found, such as fragments of hand-made censers, the handle of the bronze bowl, a bronze bell, a fragment of a mirror, metal fragments of the casket, a neck of the light-clay narrow-neck amphora, fragments of a sword. The date of the burials is the second half of the 1st cent. AD.
In the excavation 3 was found an infant burial (# 942) with a bronze hryvnya (necklet) and a set of jewelry: earrings, bracelets, rings, bead necklace, and a lunar pednant which is called lunnytsia. Judging from the glass balsamario the burial was considered to belong to the first part of the 2nd cent. AD.
Excavations 4—6 were located in the eastern part of the cemetery. Most of the objects there were robbed. Burial 965 with the remains of the child and fibula with enameled insertions dated back to the 2nd century AD is of some interest.