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  • Kyiv (Desyatynna tserkva)
  • misto Kyiv., vul. Volodymyrivs’ka, 2
  • Desyatynna tserkva
  • Ukraine
  • Kyiv City

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  • The Italian Database is the result of a collaboration between:

    MIBAC (Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali - Direzione Generale per i Beni Archeologici),

    ICCD (Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione) and

    AIAC (Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica).

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Summary (English)

  • At the excavation VII was investigated area 80 m2 . The layer of black humus included fragments of wheel-made pottery of the end of 10th, small pieces hand-made pottery, colored metal bell, animal bones, coals, burned clay and burned bones. Very important was find dwelling with hearth, which was oriented along cardinal direction. The foundation trench was deepened by 0, 8 m (by 0,4 m in virgin soil). In northwest corner was situated hearth. It was cutted in loamy soil. Hearth’s length was 0, 9 m. There were brown and red-brown hand-made pottery in construction of the hearth. Previously dwelling dates to the 8th. It is the most ancient build, which was situated from the floor side of Starokyivs’ke Horodyshche (hillfort).
    There were remains of three burials dated to the 10th in excavation VII. In the south side of excavation were revealed objects, which had been earlier, than Desiatynna Tserkva. Among them were found burials 76 and 80, dwelling of the 8th. There was a pagan burial near the central church’s building. Width of grave’s pit was 0, 38 m. There were two clusters of beads, which consist of 44 beads (42 glass, 2 cornelian), four bells, borer of bronze and some iron items.
    In Autumn was continued work at excavation IV. Workplace was on 6 m to the west of western elevation of Church of 10th.. There was undefeated stratigraphy, were revealed construction layers of reconstruction of the 12th and that time, when the church was built. There were pieces of fresco(s) in the layer of reconstruction. The layer of the time of Church building consisted of pieces of lime. Cultural layer has 0, 4 m in thickness. There were hand-made pottery and wheel-made pottery of the end of the 10th. Also were found some pits at the level of the virgin soil. It is a part of a fence, which consisted of thirteen pits. It was above a corner of a rectangular building. This building was deepened in virgin soil to 0,4 m. Filling of building consisted of hand-made wares and polished pottery
    During 2005 — 2009 on the territory of Desiatynna Tserkva were found 22 burials pre-Christian time, crossing the ditch, and objects of earlier time — Trypillya culture and Zarubyntsi culture.

Director

  • Івакін Гліб Юрійович — член-кореспондент НАН України, професор, заступник директора, заввідділом / Ivakin Glib Yuriyovich — Member of the NASU, Professor, Deputy Director, head of the department - Національна академія Наук України, Інститут Археології/ The National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Institute of Archaeology

Team

  • Козюба Віталій Костянтинович — молодший науковий співробітник / Kozyuba Vitaliy Kostyantynovych — Associate Research Fellow - Інститут археології НАН України / Institute of Archaeology NAS of Ukraine
  • Комар Олексій Вікторович — кандидат історичних наук, науковий співробітник відділу / Komar Oleksiy Viktorovych — Ph.D. in History, researcher - Відділ давньоруської і середньовічної археології Інституту археології НАН України / Ancient and medieval Archaeology department of Institute of Archaeology NAS of Ukraine
  • Манігда Ольга Володимирівна — аспірантка / Manihda Ol’ha Volodymyrivna — postgraduate student - Інститут археології НАН України / Institute of Archaeology NAS of Ukraine

Research Body

  • Institute of Archaeology, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
  • Інститут українознавства ім. І. Крип’якевича НАН України / Ivan Krypyakevych Institute of Ukrainian Studies of the National Academy of Science
  • Державний Ермітаж / The state Hermitage

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