The town on Mayat is a small Baltic and Slavic settlement [1] in the south-eastern Priilmenye .
The ancient settlement with a cultural layer of 40-60 cm is located near the village of Gorodok on the Mayat River in the Parthinsky district of the Novgorod region , near the village of Lazhiny .
According to excavations carried out by the East Priilmensky detachment of the Institute for the History of Material Culture of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2006-2008, the Town on Mayat appeared in the V century .
In 2008, studies were conducted in the eastern part of the site of the fortification and in an open settlement at the foot of the fortification wall.
The most valuable discovery was discovered in 2005, the remains of three buildings belonging to the pre-Slavic time [1] . On the site of the settlement, two square excavation pits of dwellings of the 5th - 7th centuries were studied. Another building dating back to about the same time was studied in the village - it is a round pit with the collapse of the stove-heater. V - VII centuries include a few finds: an iron ring-shaped brooch , a sickle, straight-back knives, a clay biconical spindle with a wide opening (including glazed ones ), fragments of molded weakly profiled vessels.
The “Mayat Town” during this period was not much different from hundreds of other settlements of the Tushemlinsky culture of the Upper Dnieper Baltic. A toponymic study of the surroundings of the settlement revealed an expressive range of names of ancient Baltic origin [2] .
The traces of the life of the 9th - early 10th centuries are more numerous in the settlement. From this time, numerous oval pits, which once served as underground underground log buildings, reached us. From the later layers there are glass beads and beads, fragments of bronze jewelry, fragments of stucco ceramics. An interesting find was a fragment of a spear, possibly testifying to the storming of the ancient settlement. Findings and stratigraphy suggest that the town existed throughout the 9th century and died in a fire no later than the middle of the 10th century .
See also
- George (hillfort)
- Princess Mountain
- Malyshevskoe settlement
- Rurikovo settlement
- Sergov Gorodok
- Kholopiy town on Volkhov
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Culture of the Novgorod Region and Veliky Novgorod | The earliest Slavic hillfort Priilmenye . // culture.natm.ru. Date of treatment October 15, 2011. Archived on April 5, 2012.
- ↑ Vasiliev V. L. On the problem of the ancient Baltic toponymic heritage in the Russian North-West // Questions of Linguistics . 2008. No. 3. P. 92.
Links
- Archaeological research in the Novgorod region in 2008. 8. Excavations of the ancient settlement Gorodok on Mayat . // region.adm.nov.ru. Date of treatment October 15, 2011. Archived on April 5, 2012.