Excavations of the burial ground near the village of Izmailovka

The detachment of the Shulba expedition of the Institute of History, Archeology and Ethnography of the Academy of Sciences of the Kazakh SSR continued excavations of the burial ground near the Izmailovka village, on the left bank of the Irtysh (East Kazakhstan region). 13 funerary and three ritual constructions have been excavated. The monuments of the transitional period from the Bronze Age to the Early Iron Age include burials in under-square boxes made of large massive granite slabs inside fences made of granite and quartz stones, laid flat or dug on edge. The position of the buried could not be established. The inventory is mainly represented by Karasuk type pottery and bronze items (four socketed two-bladed arrowheads, a four-sided awl with two ledges, a wire earring), a small gold earring with a half-turn, and a carved bone craft with a broken end. In one fence near the box, two sets of bronze bridles were found: a bit with stirrup-shaped ends, one of which has an additional large hole; two-hole horn-shaped and three-hole spoon-shaped cheek-pieces; Torch buckles, threads, belt tip.

The kurgan with three graves belongs to the Turkic period. The burial of a woman was made under a massive granite slab, laid with stones on top, with an eastern orientation. In the east half of the grave, a bronze earring and a crystal whorl were found, in the western half - a saddle with preserved wooden planks and a pommel, figure-of-eight stirrups with a wide footboard, a round iron girth buckle and 22 plaques from two belts, iron bits with large rings and two single-bladed knives. The remains of a round wooden vessel have been cleared in the southwestern corner. In the stone-filled grave of a teenager, behind the skull was an earthenware vessel with a narrow neck, to the right of the skull lay a trihedral iron arrowhead, to the left - the sacrum of a ram, and on the pelvic bones - an iron single-edged knife with a wooden handle and a ram's astragalus. No skeletal bones were found in the third grave. A small birch bark quiver represents the grave goods with iron triangular and three-bladed arrowheads and iron ringed bits.

Ritual rings made of white quartz and an early nomad barrow with a low mound and a stone belt around the tombstone were located apart from the main accumulation of burials of the burial ground. At a depth of about 2 m, a box of seven slabs was cleared, oriented with a long axis from north to south. The burial has been robbed. Ceramics of the early nomadic type and a fragment of an iron knife were found in it. In the eastern field of the mound, details of a bridle were found: two bronze burrs with an ornament on the shield and protrusions along the edge and two threaded plaques.