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Site ID
Ar/Ma.58.04
Site Name
Mantash BC 27
Site Type
Burial Cluster
Landscape
Mantash
Periodization
Late Bronze, Iron 1, Iron 3, Iron 4
UTM Zone
38T
UTM Easting
421589
UTM Northing
4496303
Elevation
2,248m
Association

Ma BC 27 was found 0.52m due north of Mantash BC 24, 3.08km southeast (bearing 145°) of Mets Mantash village (map quadrant B1j).

Topography

Ma BC 27 sprawls across the lower western flank of an extended north-south oriented ridge.

General Description

This large burial cluster contains more than 40 kurgan, standard cromlech, and cist mortuary installations. Many of the burials are disturbed by fallen rock, bedrock outcrops, and erosion making a more accurate count difficult. The kurgans tend to be quite small--1.5 to 2.0m in diameter--and only slightly mounded above ground surface. In this sense they are morphologically quite close to mounded cromlechs, but no surrounding ring of stones is visible. Indeed, the smallest kurgans are similar to large cist burials in their construction (although not in their shape), pointing to the difficulty in some instances of accurately identifying burial types from surface remains alone.

Features & Materials

No surface materials.

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