Week 5, Day 5. Today was focused on Berdi Chairner, north of Aragats village. We revisited the citadel area and began an informal excavation within an existing pit in the center of the flat plateau inside the citadel wall. Several ceramic sherds were immediately found but they are anything but diagnostic except for 2 base sherds, and as of now the periodization is not possible. We also brought the GNSS data collector around the site and recorded yesterday's spray-painted points.
The afternoon was dedicated to locating and documenting a recently restored church within Aragats as well as 2 medieval and/or early modern cemeteries nearby.