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Поселение Каменево-2 под Курском
The Settlement Kamenevo-2 in the Environs of the City of Kursk

Author(s): Erast A. Symonovich
Subject(s): History, Archaeology, Ancient World, Middle Ages, 6th to 12th Centuries
Published by: Издательский дом Stratum, Университет «Высшая антропологическая школа»

Summary/Abstract: The complete material publication of the author’s excavations in 1978 of the settlement Kamenevo-2 (the Tuskar river basin, the Zolotukhino district, the Kursk region) is offered. The area of the settlement equal to 200 by 70 – 80 meters was excavated (fig. 1). The dwelling and household constructions on the excavated plot were ring-shaped. Such a configuration is found in a number of Dnieper settlements dated by the late first millennium B.C. (the Pilipenkova hill) and the first millennium A.D. The studied constructions were partially deepened into the earth and had a squared shape and, in one case, a rounded one. Open hearths and, in the central part, post hole slumps were found in almost every construction. The greater part of the household pits is rounded or oval in plan, their average depth is 15 – 20 cm. All of these constructions have some correspondence to the Kolochin culture sites.The main part of the findings is hand-made pottery which is analogous to the Kolochin culture forms in the Sejm river basin (fig. 8), both with the settlement similar to the published material chronologically (the right column of the Table) and partly with the sites of the 7th century (fig. 8, column 2 and 3). Small amount of ceramics (about 2%) was made on the potter’s wheel, its forms are typical of the Cherniakhov culture. The oval frame of the buckle (fig. 6, 8) finds also parallels among the Cherniakhov culture materials. The fragment of a corrugated amphora and a glass vessel having analogs in the second half of the 3rd to the middle of the 4th centuries (Table) belong to the Black Sea imports. Two iron fibulae (fig. 6,6; 4,8) according to Lithuanian analogies are dated by the 5th – 6th centuries. The whole complex of finds suggests dating of the settlement by the end of the 4th to the 5th centuries, and perhaps, the beginning of the 6th century A.D. All the peculiarities of the given settlement continue the local traditions of the Roman period which were examinated, for example, on the Kiev culture settlement of Bukreevka (the 3rd – 4th centuries) with the distinct Cherniakhov influence. The materials of the settlement Kamenevo-2 allow to place it among the earliest sites of the forming Kolochin culture which are important for studies of its origin, ethnic and cultural attribution.

  • Issue Year: 2002
  • Issue No: 4
  • Page Range: 370-383
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: Russian