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Site ID
Ar/Ts.273.04
Site Name
Tsaghkahovit BC 088
Site Type
Burial Cluster
Landscape
Tsaghkahovit
Periodization
Late Bronze, Iron 1
UTM Zone
38T
UTM Easting
433643
UTM Northing
4496507
Elevation
2,233m
Association

Ts BC 88 is located 0.17km southwest (bearing 198°) of Ts BC 84, across a small ravine with a trickling watercourse (map quad B4j).

Topography

The burials are focused in an overgrown area near the base of a rocky slope, on the west bank of a small ravine and watercourse.

General Description

Approximately 24 burials were noted in this cluster. They vary widely in size ranging from 2 to 8m in diameter, but the heavy overgrowth makes it difficult to discriminate different construction styles (most appear to be standard or mounded cromlechs).

Features & Materials

No surface materials.

Feature 1: is a small standard cromlech, 2.3m in diameter circumscribed by just 4 large, lightly-worked basalt blocks. The capstones are submerged under the sod and overgrowth.

Feature 2: is an elliptical mounded cromlech, 8m diameter north-south and 5m east-west. The interior mound appears to be made only of earth (no visible cobbles). The cromlech rests on an inclined slope and so while the interior mound rises a remarkable 1m above the lower ground surface, it merges into the slope of the hillside at the upper end.

Feature 3: was found on the northwestern edge of the cluster. It is a more typical mounded cromlech, encircled by a ring 6m in diameter, with a central mound constructed of tuff and basalt cobbles.

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