Research of the Chizha-Dyurino detachment

A detachment of the Ural Pedagogical Institute conducted security research in the Kamensky district of the Ural region.

In the burial grounds of Bubentsy II (30 mounds) and Shaitan-Oba (13), 14 burial mounds (diameter 18–30 m, height 0.6-1.5 m) were excavated. The inventory belongs to the Sauromatian and Sarmatian cultures. All burials, except for four, were looted in antiquity. Two pits are represented by Sauromat catacombs, dug at an angle to the end of rectangular pits, in which the Sarmatians made repeated burials dating back to the 2nd-1st centuries BC. A multi-tiered burial was discovered: the lower one is the most ancient, belongs to the Bronze Age}; in the middle tier - the remains of the burial of the Sauromatian time; the upper burial dates back to the Sarmatian time.

In the Chizha 1st river valley, the burial grounds of Nogai-Chizha I-III and the medieval caravanserai Tort-Kul were discovered. The burial grounds consist of 20 or more mounds (diameter 15-80 m, height 0.4-4 m. Tort-Kul is a quadrangular structure (length up to 80 m) with a shaft-wall (width up to 8 m, height m). Oval ledges (remains of towers) are visible in the corners. Nine burial mounds with 20 burials of the Sauromatian-Sarmatian culture were explored in the burial grounds. One burial was discovered, according to the ritual related to the late Sarmatians, and according to the inventory (a small bronze mirror, iron scissors, bokka, leather shoes, bronze elbow pad) - to the nomads of the second half of the 1st millennium AD.

In the lower reaches of the Chizha 1st and Chizha 2nd rivers, the burial grounds of KalmakChaba I, II, Kalke I, Ayak I, Mayak I, II, each numbering more than 20 mounds, were investigated. Eight burial mounds with ten graves belonging to the Sauromato-Sarmatian culture have been excavated.

A stratigraphic cleaning was carried out in the cliff of two dugouts of the Baurzhanyak settlement on the Chizha River. A large collection of chips, knife-shaped plates, end scrapers made of quartzite, fragments of processed bone, Neolithic and Bronze Age ceramics has been collected.