Novye Duboviki is an early medieval fortification on the right bank of the Volkhov River , near the village of the same name on the outskirts of the city of Volkhov in the Leningrad Region , where excavations have been ongoing since 1952.
In the early Middle Ages, the settlement was a craft center, since the main finds are associated with metallurgy and pottery. The complex of early medieval monuments at the former village of New Duboviki includes, besides the settlement, a village and 10 hills. The village of Novye Duboviks was 300 × 200 m in size. There are a few traces of burials (hill mounds with cremated remains of people with high social status) [1] . Meanwhile, traces of land cultivation and fishing have also been preserved (fishing for sturgeon, bream , pike perch , burbot , pike, catfish and perch [2] ). A number of artifacts (bronze bottle-shaped pendants) indicate a connection with the Finno-Ugric population of the Volga-Oka region ( Dyakovo culture ). There are finds related to the Khazars ( Saltovsky ring, mint dirham of 746) and Slavs (temporal rings).
The earliest dating of the settlement dates back to the 9th century. The settlement existed synchronously in Staraya Ladoga [3] . Like other fortified settlements of the Volga region, it is confined to the most difficult sections of the waterway - in this case, to Gostinopolsky rapids. At such points, the alien courts were most at risk from the autochthons.
See also
- Gorodets near Luga
Notes
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| Photo from the excavation of the hill in New Duboviky, 1990 . | |
- ↑ Hills of the Lower Volga Region: a look at the problem at the end of the 20th century
- ↑ About the nature of fishing in the Lower Volga region in the second half of the 1st millennium e. (inaccessible link)
- ↑ Dubov I.V. The Great Volga Way (Unavailable link) . Date of treatment December 18, 2011. Archived on September 6, 2013.