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The settlement is situated on the Black Sea coast in north-western Crimea. Its area is not identified, the three excavations during 1991-1995 having uncovered 2,100 sq. m. (fig. 1;2). By the time the settlement emerged, the coastal area represented an even plot covered by a layer of sand 0.35 – 0.65 m thick. Beneath it there was a layer of solid chernozyom (black soil) as thick as almost 0.2 m; the latter lies on a layer of detritus-containing loam overlying a coquina rock. The first huts were let in chernozyom from the sand level and reached at places the detritus-containing loam. The cultural remains accumulated during all the periods of settlement lie in the grey sand. The thickness of the cultural deposition on the areas without any constructions is 0.2 – 0.5 m (fig. 9,1-3). The earliest constructions are stretched in a row and oriented from north-west to the south-east. Typical for the later construction periods is both reconstruction of earlier dwellings and erection of new ones either instead of the former or close to them (fig. 3-8). The constructions are of almost rectangular shape and oriented from north to south, most often with a deviation to the axe NNE-SSW. Narrow long corridors stretch on the southern side. The foundation ditches of constructions and corridors were tiled with ragged plates of limestone and coquina. Totally not less than 4 construction periods are observed here. The useful area of dwellings during the first three construction periods equals 34 to 56 sq. m., while it is only 10 to 20 sq. m. in the last one. The reconstruction of the structures yields huts with hip- or pyramidal roof with pitches touching the edge of the foundation pit (fig. 9,4,5). Pottery and other findings (fig. 10-19) suggest attribution of the settlement to the sites of Sabatinovka-Belozerka circle and allow dating it by XII-XI BC.