Archaeological observations in the Guryev region

The Volga-Ural expedition of the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR continued observations of the ancient settlement Saraychik (13th-15th centuries) eroded by the floodwaters of the Ural River. In the coastal outcrops of the cultural layer, a new area was found that burned in the middle of the 14th-century. It is located 100 m downstream from the burnt house, excavated in 1985. The fact of the destruction of Saraychik is probably linked to the destruction of the city of Laeti (the settlement of Aktobe) at the mouth of the Ural River. After the devastation, the Laeti did not revive and was soon flooded by the waters of the New Caspian transgression.

At the site of Saraychik, among the usual lifting material of the 13th-14th centuries, a kashii amulet-pendant was found, the analogies of which are unknown.