In 2007 an expedition of Uzhgorod National University continued excavation at the Mala Kopanya hillfort.
An investigation of the north-west periphery of the hillfort (at the tract Chellenytsya) was initiated. 6487 trenches and 1 excavation were carried out, over a total area of 648 m2. Here were found sherds of Dacian pottery, iron buckles, knives, and bits with cheek-pieces.
The excavation I, 36 ×16m in size, was close to rampart 6. Much material was found at a depth of 0,05 – 0, 7 m. No stratigraphic divisions were obvious. Six graves were excavated, five of the in an east-west row separated by 3,2–4,4 m.
Burial a:The bones were placed in a dipper-urn in the pit at a depth of 0,4 m. There was an iron fibula near the urn.
Burial 2: Two dippers-urns were found at 0, 3 m depth. In one of them were four bones.
Burial 3 wasa cremation in a pit, 0,75 m in diameter, 0, 6 m deep. Besides the bones there were bits with cheek-pieces, an iron buckle, and bronze wire.
Burial 4 was a cremation in a pit, 0,45 m in diameter at 0,35–0,45 mdeep. There were 40 bones and an iron fibula.
Burial 5. The dipper-urn was at the bottom of a pit, 0,7mdeep. An unidentified iron object was also found..
Burial 6.A dense cluster of bones was found at a depth of 0,3m. There was also an unidentified iron object.
The specialty of thisburial mound is the presence of large numbers of two pottery forms – dippers andurns.
This year’s excavation at the tract Chellenytsya (natural boundary) helped to confirm the early date of Mala Kopanya to the beginning of the 1st cent. B.C.