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The Alestuy homestead site is located nine kilometers north-east from the Khirkhira Mongolian medieval town in East Baikal region. It consisted of a 1.5 m high filled-up platform with dimensions 17×28—32 m extended along the north-south line. The platform was surrounded by a low rectangular bank (0.3 m) with dimensions 71×71 m. The bank was oriented almost by the cardinal points. We have conventionally marked it as the main yard. Another 64×33 m rectangular banked area was annexed to the northern bank. We studied the northern and western parts of the homestead and the neighboring territory of the yard up to the bank. The total excavation area was 400 sq. m. Among the finds there were a large number of iron nails of various sizes, fragments of different iron and bronze goods, a flat arrowhead, a stone smoother, a fragment of a plowshare, bits of slag, fragments of a crucible, an iron lock, wheel hub liners, the rim and pieces of the walls of iron cauldrons, birch bark fragments with holes, dice made from tiles and some items made from rectangular tiles with holes. We also found 16 whole bricks. The most commonly spread material was the roof tiles. Typologically the tiles from the Alestuy homestead were compatible to the tiles from the Khirkhira town, Konduisky town, and had many features in common with the Narsatuy homestead from Buryatia and Den-Terek town from Tuva and Avarga from Mongolia.

Keywords: Transbaikalia, Middle Ages, Mongols, homestead, structures, structural design of dwellings, tile

Information about authors:

Nikolay N. Kradin. Doctor of Historical Sciences, Corresponding Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography of the Peoples of the Far East of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Address: Pushkinskaya St., 89, Vladivostok, 690001, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
Svetlana E. Baksheeva. Candidate of Historical Sciences. Institute of History, Archaeology and Ethnography of the Peoples of the Far East of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Address: Pushkinskaya St., 89, Vladivostok, 690001, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
Evgeny V. Kovychev. Candidate of Historical Sciences. Transbaikal State University. Address: Aleksandro-Zavodskaya St., 30, Chita, 672039, Russian Federation 
E-mail: [email protected]; к[email protected]
Artur V. Kharinsky. Doctor of Historical Sciences. Irkutsk National Research State University. Address: Lermontov St., 83, Irkutsk, 664074, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]