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The burial ground of late BC — early AD near the village of Mutyn (Krolevets Rayon, Sumy Oblast) was explored in 2010. This compact burial ground consists of 14 urn cremations of the men-at-arms. The burials went with the impressive set of weaponry (bent swords and spearheads, shield bosses, helmets, etc., as well as with the warrior’s equipment (spurs, fragments of sword belts, fibulas). Several ceremonial ceramic urn vessels look like tableware from the local sites of the Khar’yevka type, combining Zarubyntsy Culture and Central European features. Imported metal vessels were also used as urns: 8 situlas (including Eggers 20 and 22 types), 2 low basins Eggers 67 and an Eggers 5 caldron. Most probably this “dinner service” for shared meals belonged to the men-at-arms and later on their vessels were used as urns.
Analogies to the burial ceremony and the whole set of artefacts may be found in such Latenized cultures, as Przeworsk and Oksywie on the territory of Poland. The uniqueness of Mutyn is determined at the same time by the fact that it is an exclusively men-at-arms burial ground of the final pre-Roman times, located, ironically enough, at the Eastern outskirts of the Latenized cultures' area.

Keywords: Zarubyntsy culture, Przeworsk culture, Oksywie culture, cremation, weapon, situlae, Roman import

Information about authors:

Rostislav Terpilovskij (Kiev, Ukraine). Doctor of Historical Sciences. Taras Shevchenko National University of Kiev, Vladimirskaya St., 64, Kiev, 01601, Ukraine 
E-mail: [email protected]
Genadiy Zharov (Chernigov, Ukraine). Guarding Archaeological Service of Ukraine, Archaeology Institute, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Pirogov St., 5, Chernigov, 14005, Ukraine
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