During 2019 the archaeological scientific and preservation surveys of the Scientific and Research Centre “Riativna Arkheolohichna Sluzhba” of the Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, jointly with the Municipal Institution of Poltava Regional Council “The Center for Preservation and Investigation of Archaeological Sites” took place at the sites of Kyiv – Kharkiv – Dovzhanskyi M03 Road reconstruction, mainly, along the lane from the city of Poltava to the village of Chutove (run by Bohdan Salo and Viacheslav Sherstiuk).
The square next to Kolomatske village, Poltava district, which used to be the part of kurgan group І. The part of the site was included into the strip allotted for the road, mainly, approximately the half of the embankment of the kurgan circular residual (its other half has not been surveyed).
The major burial site had been destroyed either in the Scythian time or by saltpeter production, but some admission burial sites were still preserved in the field: Catacomb Inhul culture (3rd millennium BC) and Babyn (multi-rolled) culture (1st half of 2nd millennium BC), which had been made on a log of wood. The latter one contained a bone belt buckle, typical for this community.
The burial site of the Scythian times had been completely destroyed by a large excavation pit of the saltpeter production area in 17th c. At its own times its presence demonstrated the similarities to the square construction: separate embankment, moulded and amphora ceramics in the pit filling and around the embankment. The excavation pit in the centre of the embankment had a diameter of more than 20 m. Its depth from the current surface is more than 5 m (which means that the original depth from the kurgan top was approximately 10 m or even more!).
6 hollows for poles on the bottom of the excavation pit also belong to the times of the square functioning. They, probably, were the details for raised platform structure for excavating the ground to the surface. Outside the area of the Scythian times embankment there are also interesting structures, constructed immediately at the kurgan foot edge. Their shallow-arch sectioning, straight positioning and slight deepening at the bottom towards the branches tend to make researchers believe that they were used as water supply ducts. The water was an important element for leaching out and graduation of saltpeter (soil draining).
These excavations were one of the first surveys of the kurgan and square saltpeter production complex in Poltava region.
During 2019 the archaeological scientific and preservation surveys of the Scientific and Research Centre “Riativna Arkheolohichna Sluzhba” of the Institute of Archaeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, jointly with the Municipal Institution of Poltava Regional Council “The Center for Preservation and Investigation of Archaeological Sites” took place at the sites of Kyiv – Kharkiv – Dovzhanskyi M03 Road reconstruction, mainly, along the lane from the city of Poltava to the village of Chutove (run by Bohdan Salo and Viacheslav Sherstiuk).
The square next to Kolomatske village, Poltava district, which used to be the part of kurgan group І. The part of the site was included into the strip allotted for the road, mainly, approximately the half of the embankment of the kurgan circular residual (its other half has not been surveyed).
The major burial site had been destroyed either in the Scythian time or by saltpeter production, but some admission burial sites were still preserved in the field: Catacomb Inhul culture (3rd millennium BC) and Babyn (multi-rolled) culture (1st half of 2nd millennium BC), which had been made on a log of wood. The latter one contained a bone belt buckle, typical for this community.
The burial site of the Scythian times had been completely destroyed by a large excavation pit of the saltpeter production area in 17th c. At its own times its presence demonstrated the similarities to the square construction: separate embankment, moulded and amphora ceramics in the pit filling and around the embankment. The excavation pit in the centre of the embankment had a diameter of more than 20 m. Its depth from the current surface is more than 5 m (which means that the original depth from the kurgan top was approximately 10 m or even more!).
6 hollows for poles on the bottom of the excavation pit also belong to the times of the square functioning. They, probably, were the details for raised platform structure for excavating the ground to the surface. Outside the area of the Scythian times embankment there are also interesting structures, constructed immediately at the kurgan foot edge. Their shallow-arch sectioning, straight positioning and slight deepening at the bottom towards the branches tend to make researchers believe that they were used as water supply ducts. The water was an important element for leaching out and graduation of saltpeter (soil draining).
These excavations were one of the first surveys of the kurgan and square saltpeter production complex in Poltava region.
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