Kolgat Settlement 1 is located 5.51km southwest (bearing 205°) of Lernapar Fortress and 0.91km southeast (bearing 111°) of Kolgat Reservoir 1 (map quad D2n).
The settlement is located atop a terrace on the eastern slope of Mt. Kolgat's small northern secondary peak. The terrace itself is flat and broad but slopes steeply down to the east and up to the west.
Kolgat Settlement 1 is a complex of more than 15 room blocks built of medium basalt and tuff blocks. The stones have worked faces set into irregular courses. The walls are double faced with an interior rubble core and some still rise up to 0.5m above the surface. The masonry appears to be dry, with no evidence of mortar. The rooms are rectilinear with right-angled corners and well-carpentered lines. On the southern end of the settlement, the room blocks are distinct but closely packed. On the northern end of the settlement, the buildings are more widely spaced. Overall the complex is arranged laterally along the terrace, extending 350m north-south and a maximum of 50m east-west. While the buildings range in size from 6.5 to 30m on a side, most of the rooms are approximately 4m x 6m in size. Several segments of a circumscribing wall are visible at points around the settlement; however this appears more likely to be a terrace wall than a fortification as only an exterior face is visible.
No surface materials, but the preservation of the architecture suggests it dates to the Medieval period or later.
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