Pages: 265-293

The article is dedicated to the 2014 field season results of Crimean piedmont archaeological expedition, during which three new ground necropolises of the 3rd — 4th centuries AD in Submountain Crimea in the Zuya, Burulcha, Karasu interfluve were investigated. Investigations had a character of rescue works, all inspected objects in past 10 years were systematically plundered. A total of ten ground T-form vaults and one ground grave were investigated completely. As a result, the geographical line of funerary sites like Neusatz-Druzhnoe was continued and completed in the east direction, new types of funerary structures were discovered and their chronological position determined in general system of antiquities on Crimean peninsula.

Keywords: Crimean Scythia, Late Antiquity, ground necropolises, funerary rite, grave goods

Information about authors:

Andrey Churkin (Simferopol, Crimea). Historical and Archaeological Museum-Reserve “Scythian Neapolis”. Arkheologicheskaya St., 1, Simferopol, 295043, Crimea
E-mail: [email protected]
Iryna Shkribliak (Simferopol, Crimea). Historical and Archaeological Museum-Reserve “Scythian Neapolis”. Arkheologicheskaya St., 1, Simferopol, 295043, Crimea
E-mail: [email protected]