Crimea: archaeologists have found ancient fortress on the Turkish Wall – REGNUM

Kerch, Crimea, 15 August 2016, 17:35 – REGNUM Expedition of the Institute of Archaeology RAS assembled “an impressive” collection of ancient artifacts on Uzunlar (Turkish) shaft in the Republic of Crimea. Told IA REGNUM According to the press service of the Institute.

According to archaeologists, they started digging in near the village Gornostaevka Kerch peninsula, where in the near future will take place trunk pipeline “Krasnodar region – Crimea».

Scientists have discovered at the top of the mound well-preserved ancient stone tower. “To the east of it was the economic yard with wells that contained numerous artifacts, – told the Academy of Sciences Institute of Archaeology. – To the west of the tower of the shaft line it was a large defensive ditch width and depth of a few meters. On the site, where the passage in the shaft line, the remains of a grandiose architectural constructions ( “gate”), draws on both sides of the old drive through the pit, and the shaft line. »

According to archaeologists, the width of the investigated them laying out processed limestone blocks up to three meters at a height of up to five. “The revealed structure is unique to the rural fortification of the Bosporus and the most extensive of its kind known in the northern Black Sea region”, – underlined the scientists

They are upset that the burial, located under the mound and represented by a ring of stone construction, it was looted. and contained only scattered bones and fragments of hand-made vessels of the bronze age. However, among the few open graves, admitted in the ditch line, found female tomb of ancient times, which contained ancient jug and bowl, a bronze mirror, beads and earrings.

All found items will join the collection of the East Crimean Museum.

Uzunlar (Turkish) shaft archeologists considered one of the oldest and most impressive excavation border fortifications on the south of Russia. He encloses the eastern part of the Kerch Peninsula and extends approximately 32-33 km from north to south, from the Sea of ​​Azov to the Black Sea. Archaeologists believe that Uzunlarskoye shaft was built in the first third of the III. BC and then in the middle of I in. BC. during the reign of the Bosporus king Asander further enhanced, including through the construction of watchtowers. At this time, the shaft may be the boundary between the founded by the ancient Greeks Bosporus kingdom with its capital in Panticapaeum (Kerch) and the Scythians -. Hosts the main part of the Crimea

As reported IA REGNUM , in June 2016 , archaeologists have begun to explore the coast of the waterlogged ancient city of Acre times Bosporus kingdom, located on the shore of the present Kerch Strait (from the Crimea)

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