Post-Hunnic burial on the left bank of the Lower Dniester

Abstract

The paper publishes for the first time the results of excavations of barrow 6 of the “DOT” group, which was studied near the Glinoe village, Slobodzeya district, on the left bank of the Lower Dniester in 2021. A single grave in the undercut was investigated under the mound. Finds from the burial (an iron and bronze buckle, two bronze leaf-shaped clips, a handmade whorl, a fragment of an iron knife, a glass bead) make it possible to attribute the grave to the early medieval sites. Two leaf-shaped clips are elements of fastening shoes. A bronze buckle with a proboscis-shaped tongue protruding strongly beyond the round frame allows us to attribute the appearance of such items to the 5th century. The features of the rite and the composition of the grave goods make it possible to include the burial in the Likhachevka group of the post-Hunnic time. The intervals of calibrated radiocarbon dates obtained from human and dog bones intersect (436—596) and coincide with the general dating of the Likhachevka group — the second half of the 5th — the first half of the 6th century. Thus, the published grave fills with concrete content one of the “blank spots” in the archaeology of early medieval nomads of the Eastern Europe.

Keywords

• left bank on the lower dniester region
• barrow
• grave
• likhachevka group
• the second half of the 5th — the first half of the 6th century