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Site ID
Ar/Ts.057.02
Site Name
Tsaghkahovit BC 033
Site Type
Burial Cluster
Landscape
Tsaghkahovit
Periodization
Late Bronze, Iron 1
UTM Zone
38T
UTM Easting
436350
UTM Northing
4498349
Elevation
2,163m
Association

0.10km southwest of Ts BC 32, this cluster occupies the base of the southern slope of the same ridge and indeed may be part of the same concentration of burials. However, the unique topographical positioning of the cluster, the empty slope between it and Ts BC 32, and the distinct architecture suggested it would be worthwhile to distinguish the two sites.

Topography

The burials are set at the bottom of an east-west oriented ridge, on one edge of a small basin. None occupy the basin proper but instead hug the edges, gravitating toward the margins much as the fortresses of the plain hug the mountain slopes. As a result, they are distributed across a curving area on the north and northwest edges of the basin.

General Description

This cluster is quite sizable containing an estimated 50 cromlechs, primarily of the mounded and standard variety. On the southern edge of the cluster is a linear stone feature that appears too roughly shaped to be an associated wall and instead may well be the product of later field clearance in the basin. This also raises the possibility that cromlechs that had occupied the basin proper were destroyed by later agricultural activity.

Features & Materials

No surface materials.

Feature 1: is an unusually small cromlech for this cluster, only 3m in diameter. It is constructed of small, unworked blocks set in a ring around a central, unmounded area filled with small stone cobbles in between the small capstone blocks. This is either a mounded cromlech where the mound has been removed leaving only a few interspersed cobbles, or a variation on the paved cromlech where small cobbles fill the gaps between the stone blocks.

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