This medieval burial cluster (plate XVd) is located on the eastern edge of Tsaghkahovit village (map quad B4o).
Ts BC 71 is set at the base of a rocky terminal slope of Mt. Aragats.
This roughly triangular-shaped cemetery includes over 200 burials set in parallel lines. Three types of gravestones are visible: 1) flat elongated rectilinear tomb slabs, some with a single rounded end, made of basalt, often inscribed with one or more crosses, 2) barrel vault tombstones made of red tuff, often inscribed with the swirling eternity symbol, and 3) rectangular tombstones, also made of tuff. The burials are all oriented northeast-southwest. The rectangular tomb slabs comprise the largest group with barrel vault and rectangular tombstones amounting to less than 50 of the total corpus.
A small sherd scatter found on the cemetery's eastern edge included 36 medieval sherds. A small salvage excavation in the cemetery by Hamazasp Khachatrian (Shirak Museum) in the mid-1990s recovered four glazed bowls dated to the 9-10th centuries A.D. (plate XVI).
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