The characteristics of the tumulus in Ivankivtsi are the following: it is 4.5 m in height, 56 m in diameter from the north to the south, and 60 m in diameter from the west to the east. The top is flat (14,5 × 17 m), the northern side is more steep, and the southern is smoother.
The highest layer of the mound is 2.5 – 3 m in depth in the center and 1.2 – 1.5 m in the depth on the slopes. It consists of the pure chernozem with some stones, which occurred there probably accidentally during robbing. Below this is an entire layer of stones which must have been a part of the stone bank that circled a wooden pillar tomb.
The bank and the site of the ossuary were partly cleared in 2007. The open areas of the bank enable us to suggest that it was more than 2 m in height, with a bank base 10 m in width, and 26 m diameter on the exterior perimeter. It consists of the stones of different sizes without any admixtures of soil.
The chamber was bedded in the earth 0.35 – 0.4 m below the ancient horizon. The construction was sustained by the pillars, for which 19 holeswere found. Some of the holes in the external line show that the pillars were leaned towards the internal line, hence they supported and held the structure together. The area of the ossuary by the external contours of the outer lines was 7.5 × 7.5 m. The distance between the holes in the parallel lines was 0.8 – 1 m. There were some remains of the decomposed oak pillars pressed by the stones in some of the holes. The floor was paved with flagstones and pugged within the internal column line. But the major part of the flagstones 4 × 2.5 m in size were removed in antiquity.
An iron bilobate laurel leaf shaped arrowhead and a bronze trilobate arrowhead were found on the Northern side from the chamber. A thick layer bright-red burned clay with some traces of charcoalcoal lay in the stone bank at four angles of the ossuary.
The excavation corridor was delimited by the dry- stone walls and leads through the bank at its southern side. The corridor converges to the vault up to 2 m and enlarges up to 6 m to the opposite site. There are some trenches on the floor that are the marks of the 20 – 25 cm wide wood chunk cover. Probably the cover turns into the stone platform which leads to the foot of the tumulus but this part has not yet been excavated.
The stone mound of the tumuluswas linked to the south-western angle of the ossuary. It was overlaid by the general mound. Here were found the remains of the burning of the body, covered by a thin layer of fine sand with pipe clay floor. There are reasons to believe that the tumulus appeared before the construction of the wooden ossuary described above.
Grave goods are represented by two black-polished pottery bowls with wide folded outward rim, made of elk horns, a unique tablemat, two wooden toilet spade-spoons, bone decorations of gorytos (clasp, 2 “nails”, and 10 “columns”) and other remains of bone objects.The tumulus in Ivankivtsi seems to belong to the end of the 7th – the beginning of the 6th century BC.