Protection works in Taipak district

The detachment of the Ural Pedagogical Institute expedition conducted protection work on the left bank of the Urals in the Taipak district of the Ural region. The road destroyed the burial ground of Bazartobe. The mounds are randomly located along the north-south line. Seven kurgans were excavated, containing 11 burials dating back to the Sarmatian period in the Middle Ages.

In kurgan 4, burial in a grave pit was found - a rectangular shape with steps on three sides (except for the northern one). The buried is oriented with his head to the south. The inventory is represented by a stucco ornamented jug with a plum (at the head), a ceramic bowl (in the same place), in which there was a ram’s shoulder, an iron knife and a small wooden bowl, a stone amulet, an earring made of thick gold wire one and a half turns, and a bronze socketed arrowhead. The burial dates back to the 3rd-2nd centuries BC.

The Middle Sarmatian period (1st century BC - 1st century AD) includes burial 2, kurgan 8 and burial 2, mound 7, in rectangular tombs oriented south. In kurgan 8, an iron dagger with a ring-shaped pommel and arrowheads, a molded ornamented vessel with a spherical body and a funnel-shaped neck were found. A molded vessel with a flat bottom, a spherical body, a cylindrical neck and a zoomorphic handle was found in kurgan 7, ornamented up to the body with carved parallel vertical lines and five horizontal lines at the neck.

The inlet burial 1 of kurgan 8 dates back to the 12th-13th centuries. In a rectangular pit, the buried lay in an extended position, with his head to the west. In the legs are the bones of the horse's legs. Inventory: iron arrowheads and a knife. By the 14th-15th centuries, there was a burial without an inventory with a western orientation and a wooden ceiling in kurgan 2.