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Site ID
Ar/Ts.270.01
Site Name
Tsaghkahovit BC 085
Site Type
Burial Cluster
Landscape
Tsaghkahovit
Periodization
Middle Bronze, Late Bronze
UTM Zone
38T
UTM Easting
434162
UTM Northing
4496540
Elevation
2,158m
Association

This group of kurgans is located 1.70km south (bearing 188°) of Tsaghkahovit Fortress, one ridgeline west of Ts Canal 2, behind an abandoned soviet era building (map quad B4k).

Topography

The kurgans of this cluster are located on slightly inclined terrain, near the base of a west-facing slope.

General Description

Just three kurgans make up this cluster. Initial identification was uncertain given the adjacent construction and irregular shape of one burial. However, further inspection does support listing the features as kurgans.

Features & Materials

No surface materials.

Feature 1: is a 10m diameter kurgan constructed of a low mound of basalt and tuff cobbles piled 0.8m above the contemporary ground surface.

Feature 2: is more elliptical in shape, 9.5m down slope (roughly southwest-northeast) and 7.7m across. This feature is also constructed of tuff and basalt cobbles. Despite the disturbance which presumably is responsible for the kurgan's irregular shape, there are no surface indications of a stone ring underneath the pile of stones.

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