About one group of funeral monuments of the second half of 1st thousand AD in the Northwest of the Novgorod land
Sergey L. Kuzmin
The community in construction, an arrangement and finds from three groups of barrows of different groups of the population (culture of long barrows and culture of hills) in the territory of the Northwest of the Novgorod earth is considered. The conclusion of interpenetrate of these cultures in the specified territory during coexistence is drawn.
A study of sites of culture of long barrows near the village Berezitsy between the lakes Schir and Chernoe
Elena R. Mikhaylova
This article is devoted to 1991 excavations of several sites of PLB culture in village Berezitsy surroundings, Strugi Krasnye district of Pskov region (Berezitsy I, IV and V). These barrows have been known since 1900, when N.F. Arepiev excavated a high burial mound.
The burial mounds group Berezitsy I is situated to the North-West of the village Berezitsy, on the left valley side of the river Bochitsa. The site is located in a mixed forest and consists of a number of very high mounds among others. Not less than 16 barrows amounted in the group in 1991; the 4 least damaged mounds (№7—10) were excavated.
The burial mound group Berezitsy IV is situated in 0,5 km to the North-West from the village Berezitsy, on a hill on the right valley side of the river Bochitsa, in the mixed forest. It consisted of the 3 circular in plan mounds. Two burial mounds were excavated here (№1 and 3).
The barrow group Berezitsy V is located in 1 km to the South-East of the village Berezitsy, near the road from the village Berezisty to the railway passing place «197 km», the site is situated in a pinewood. In 1991 there were 5 circular in plan mounds in a group, mounds stretched out in chain order on a top of low level stain hilly surface. The most Northern in the group burial mound was excavated here (№3).
The burial mounds located near village Berezitsy and studied in 1991 are typical for PLB culture. It is notorious that the mounds inner structure is complicated, it is clear that they were constructed step by step, and the cremated remains were put into the mound in diverse variety of ways. The burials in ground holes outside of ditches encircling the mounds are relatively numerous.
The finds gathered during the 1991 excavations are not numerous and generally are not very informative. The ceramics is presented by can shaped forms. Among the found artefacts the most significant are: wiry bronze ring with a blue bead and square shaped stamped plate-hoop. This finds are also interesting: the ornamented bone hollow artefacts, probably needle-cases.