Archaeological excavations at the Kakaricka gora site were carried out by the Public Institution Museums and Galleries of Podgorica in the period May 20 – Jun 09. 2016.
Archaeological excavation was aimed at removing the first layer of stone from the entire surface of the tumulus, which is 15 m wide and up to 2 m high. It is a stone tumulus. On the west side, its outer rim, ie the ring, is defined, which consists of larger irregular boulders of living rock. After removing the first layer, the tumulus was pierced in the middle to reach the central tomb. At a depth of about 1 m from the highest point of the tumulus, a central cyst-type tomb was found, smaller in size, located between two living rocks. The construction of this tomb consisted of laterally placed stone slabs, as well as a cover panel 12 cm thick and 135 cm long. The panel was broken into two unequal parts. The orientation of the tomb is east-west. A part of the hand bone was found in the tomb, probably a fragmented ulna and a radius. There were no archeological finds.
About 1.3 m from the central tomb, another grave was found, the construction of which consisted of vertically placed slabs. The tomb, oriented north-south, placed on bedrock, measures 1.3 × 0.6 m, while the cover panel measures 1.65 × 0.8 × 0.5 m. Only part of the tooth was found in the grave.
Inside the tumulus ring, a layer of small stones was cleared, followed by a layer of earth in which silver Turkish coins dating to the 16th-17th centuries were found. Also found were 2 fragments of pottery, one red-baked and chronologically very sensitive, and the other part of the belly of the pot was roughly made, black-crossed, with visible impurities. In the same layer, a painted artifact was found (flint) the lower part of which served as a blade.
Mounds of stone or earth are a phenomenon that is linked to the burial of different groups of people during the Iron Age. On the territory of Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia and southwestern Serbia burials under tumuli took place from approximately, the middle eneolitìhic period until the end of the Iron Age. On Kakaricka gora are found a few stone tumuli, which may belong to the Bronze or Iron Age. Research has not gave accurate results. What we can assume based on the tomb constructions is that it is a tumulus from the Bronze Age. Unfortunately, like many tumulus already explored in the area, this one was robbed. Apart from the lack of osteological material, this is also indicated by the lack of archeological findings, of which only a few were found on the surface of the entire tumulus.