Among the objects discovered were spinnerets and fragments of local Scythian ceramics. There are also a large number of arrowheads.
Employees of the Bilsk Historical and Cultural Reserve during work on the territory of the Kotelevsky community of the Poltava region discovered forty archaeological sites belonging to the Scythians. This was reported by Ukrinform.
According to the director of the reserve, Igor Korost, in the course of large-scale rescue archaeological work on the settlement of Kotelva II, an area of more than 360 square meters was explored. quarry operating in this area in recent years.
“The enormous amount of archaeological material dates back to the Scythian period, with successive boundaries of the end of the 6th – the first half of the 5th century BC. It is interesting that the fragments of the ancient ceramics were found in excavations (production centers – Klazomen, Chios, Thasos, Abder). Some fragments also occurred of Greek tableware (from Attica and Olbia),” said the head of the IKZ.
Today, sand mining in the quarry has been stopped, and the memo itself is included in the List of newly discovered objects of cultural heritage.
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Recall that last year, archaeologists conducted excavations in the city of Gorodok, Khmelnytsky region, and discovered a Scythian settlement there with the remains of a ruined stone castle.
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