This locus is the western chamber of Kurgan 2 and is the continuation of Locus 8 from the 2013 season.
In this locus, we have Loci 24, 25, and 26 from the 2013 season. In addition, there is a vessel below Locus 25 that is a walnut-shaped vessel and is Locus 105. There are various animal bones on top of the vessel, they appear to be medium mammal ribs, a possible medium mammal vertebral body, and a medium mammal humerus. The soil around the vessel has a lot of white mold. Just north of Locus 105 (walnut-shaped vessel), there is a proximal femur (med. mammal, probably pig) and a distal femur (med. mammal).
In the eastern half of the western chamber, we came down up what appears to be the bottom of the pit, a tan clay matrix like the one lining the sides of the pit. The matrix in Locus 103 is very mottled with tan and dark brown clayey soils, and there is a lot of white mold. The edges of the chamber are much softer than the matrix of the locus itself. The sides of the pit seem to be very roughly cut. The soil around the neck of the walnut-shaped vessel (Locus 105) is more sandy than the surrounding matrix. The is a small lens of loose medium brown silty-clayey matrix around the sherd near Locus 24.
In the western chamber, along the northern edge, we found and collected a small piece of charcoal (Ar/Ge.K2.103.C14.01). Underneath Locus 24 (black censer) there is a small cup (Locus 106).
). South of Locus 26, we uncovered a crushed small bovid skull (probably a sheep or goat), as well as an medium mammal articulated scapula and proximal humerus, and what appears to be a medium mammal metapodial and carpals/tarsals.