It is located in the north-western part of Kotelva Village Council, Kotelva district, Poltava region, 8.49 km to the north-southwest of the Kotelva Village Council building, 2.9 km to the south-southwest of the edge of Ukrainka village, Okhtyrka district, Sumy region, in forest massif of SE “Kotelevske forestry”, in Horodyshche natural landmark, near Zinkivshchyna natural landmark.
Kotelevske fortified settlement is known according to the testimony of Archbishop Filaret’s informants from the middle of the 19th c., the report of the local historian O.V. Tverdokhlebov in 1888. It was first surveyed in detail by O.B. Suprunenko in 2000, examined by V.V. Priimak in 2007 and together in 2014.
The fortified settlement is located on the sandy remains of the second terrace of the left bank of the Vorskla River and has a subtriangular shape.
The site area is 3.3 hectares. It is surrounded by breastworks 3-5 m at the base and 1.2 to 4.0 m height. The lowest south-western part of the fortifications in the whole fortified settlement is reinforced by a kurgan-like bank, its diameter is 14 m, and height is 2.6 m. The uphill can be considered as the basis of a tower-like fortification at one of the entrances.
In the course of research a small but clear collection of findings was obtained. It is represented mainly by fragments of ceramic products – fragments of light-clay Hellenistic amphorae, as well as grinding stones made of fine-grained sandstone.
Kotelevske fortified settlement was an additional element of strengthening the protection of the north-eastern direction on the approaches to the well-known Bilske fortified settlement and shelter for the local population, and belonged to the satellite fortifications of the grand proto-urban complex of the Scythian era.

Early Iron Age, Scythian and Late Scythian times, 6th – 4th cc. BC,
1st c. BC – 1st c. AD.