Plakun - a tract on the right bank of the Volkhov River in the Volkhov district of the Leningrad Region [1] . Located near Staraya Ladoga opposite the Staroladozhsky fortress .
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| The breeder | |
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| A country |  Russia |
| Village | Chernavino |
On the banks of the Volkhov River are the remains of mounds of the 9th-10th centuries. During the excavation of one of the hills, archaeologists discovered a horse skeleton with a rich bridle of the Lithuanian type and fragments of an ancient amphora. The closest analogues to the burial of a warrior in a ship with a horse come from the Hedebyu region (Haithhabu) in Jutland [2] . In the burial in the chamber of Ts-171 mound in Gnezdovo , a rite was noted where the coffin, knocked down by nails and containing the remains of a woman, was placed in a pillar-shaped chamber, which is typical of the South Baltic and the Old Ladoga Plakun. In the Birka burial ground there are no burials according to the rite of burial close to Plakun mound No. 11 [3] . Barrow 11 is the only among the other burial mounds of the burial ground, where corpse has been identified. Anne Stalsberg combined the quadrangular rods of the rook rivets from Gnezdov with rivets from the old Ladoga Plakun, citing Jan Bill that the quadrangular rods of the rivets from Plakun and Gnezdov are closer to the Baltic and Slavic tradition with the Slavic tradition of Negev rivets [4] . For the mound-like embankment near Plakun tract, the foundation for the erection was a mound containing three burials of the 9th century according to the ritual burnt ceremony on the side [5] . The burial chamber of the sapiform necropolis Plakun is associated with the activities of Rurik [6] . In it, as A. N. Kirpichnikov put it, “the guard and the court of the king ” are buried. A separate cemetery (13 mounds in 1940) of Norman aliens with a poor funeral rite uncharacteristic of the Scandinavians functioned in the Plakun tract from about 850 to 950 [7] [8] . K. A. Mikhailov believes that the Plakunsky burial ground began to function at the beginning of the 10th century [9] .
Notes
- ↑ Cultural Heritage Archive - 4700000066
- ↑ Mikhailov K.A. The burial place of a warrior with horses on top of the Plakunsky hill-shaped embankment in the light of the burial traditions of the Viking Age. // Novgorod and Novgorod Land. / issue 9. - Novgorod, 1995.
- ↑ Mikhailov K.A. South Scandinavian features in the funeral rite of the Plakunsky burial ground // Novgorod and Novgorod Land. History and archeology. Vol. 10. - Novgorod, 1996.S. 52-60.
- ↑ Stalsberg A. On the Scandinavian burials with boats of the Viking era in the territory of Ancient Russia // Historical Archeology, 1998. S. 279–281, 284–285.
- ↑ Petrov N.I. Sopkovidnaya mound near the Plakun tract in Staraya Ladoga: sociocultural position in the “block” of funerary traditions of the Northern Volga region
- ↑ Nazarenko V.A. Burial ground in Plakun tract. // Medieval Ladoga. - L., 1985 .-- S. 156-169.
- ↑ Kirpichnikov A.N. Ladoga and the Ladoga land of the VIII — XIII centuries
- ↑ Kirpichnikov A.N. Early Medieval Ladoga (results of archaeological research). // Medieval Ladoga. New archaeological discoveries and research. - L., 1985.
- ↑ Mikhailov K.A. Scandinavian burial ground in Plakun tract (notes on chronology and topography) , 2002
Literature
- Nosov EH Mound-shaped embankment near Plakun tract in Staraya Ladoga
- Korzukhina G.F., Davidan O. I. Excavations at Plakun tract near Staraya Ladoga. // AO 1968. M., 1969. S. 16-17; Nazarenko V. A. The burial ground in the tract Plakun. // Medieval Ladoga. L., 1985.S. 156, 162, 168.
Links
- Nazarenko V. A. Burial ground in Plakun tract
- Excavations at the Plakun tract near Staraya Ladoga (G.F. Korzukhina, O. I. Davidan // Archaeological discoveries. 1968 / p. 16 - 17)