Located 0.13 km east (bearing 83°) of Tsaghkahovit Burial Cluster 22, Tsaghkahovit Burial Cluster 21 is part of a constellation of burial clusters 1.07 km east of Tsaghkahovit Fortress (map quadrant C4d).
These burials are set within a shallow basin that slopes north to the terminus of the Aragats massif. They are separated from Ts BC 21 by a narrow drainage.
This rather indistinct group of burials, an area roughly 20m x 25m, includes 10 standard cromlechs and a single moderately sized kurgan. The cromlechs are generally small to medium-sized. On the eastern edge of the cluster is a stone masonry wall built of at least one line of large basalt blocks. Only one face is visible, suggesting that, like Ts BC 12, the burials may have been built atop a stone reinforced terrace. However, it is also possible that the wall and the burials are not contemporaneous.
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Feature 1: is the single large kurgan on the western end of the cluster. The kurgan is 8.5m in diameter, constructed of tuff and basalt cobbles forming a mound that rises 0.45m above the level of the surrounding terrain.
Feature 2: is a rather unremarkable standard cromlech, 5m in diameter north-south and 5.5m east-west. Only the outer ring of stones, built of small, largely unworked basalt blocks, is visible. What is unique about this construction, however, is its incorporation of a single, large basalt stone containing a basin cut into its upper surface into the eastern arc of the outer ring. Such basins are well-documented from LB settlement contexts at Tsaghkahovit Fortress, but it is only rarely that they appear as elements of mortuary installations.
Feature 3: is a moderate-sized cromlech, 4.3m in diameter north-south and 4.0m east-west. It is difficult to assess the style of the cromlech as few of the construction blocks are consecutively visible. However, the basalt blocks are quite large--some stretch 1m along one axis--and their tops are slightly raised above the level of the sloping terrain.
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