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Site ID
Ar/Ts.159.06
Site Name
Tsaghkahovit BC 062
Site Type
Burial Cluster
Landscape
Tsaghkahovit
Periodization
Late Bronze, Iron 1
UTM Zone
38T
UTM Easting
437650
UTM Northing
4498672
Elevation
2,195m
Association

This small cluster of cromlechs is 0.94km southeast (bearing 128°) of Tsaghkahovit Settlement 1.

Topography

The burials of this cluster are set on the lower reaches of a highly eroded east-facing slope adjacent to a small marsh or bog.

General Description

This cluster of standard and mounded cromlechs is poorly preserved, leaving only fragments of 8-12 burials visible from the surface. Most appear to be moderately sized ranging from 3 to 5m in diameter. One exception, however, is an extremely large mounded cromlech (feature 1).

Features & Materials

No surface materials.

Feature 1: is one of the largest burials recorded by the ArAGATS survey and it is in relative isolation, surrounded only by much smaller standard cromlechs. The burial is a mounded cromlech 38.9m in diameter. The stones that define the outer ring of stones are very large worked blocks, ranging from 1 to 2m on their longest side. The interior of the burial is paved with small basalt and tuff cobbles. It is quite possible, perhaps even likely given its extraordinary size and relative isolation, that this burial was originally a very large kurgan which slowly lost the outer extremity of its cobble "breastplate" to reveal the underlying interior stone ring.

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