Early Saka burial from the Shagalaly 5
In the 2014 field season, a single mound, named Shagalaly V, was discovered and studied to the southeast of the Bronze Age settlement of Shagalaly II. The monument is located on a hill ridge north of Mount Koshkarbay (Zerenda district, Akmola region).The mound had a two-part stone-earth embankment elongated along the north-south line. According to the results of the study, it was determined that the southern part belonged to the burial of the Early Iron Age, and under the northern ring-shaped annex there was an early Middle Ages burial. The burial in the southern part was done in the side funerary niche. According to archaeological finds, it dates back to the 7th – 6th centuries BC. Materials from the study of the Shagalaly 5 mound show that the type of burials in the lateral burial niche appears in Northern Kazakhstan in the first half of the 1st millennium BC. at the first stage of existence of Ulybay-Tasmola archaeological culture.