This large burial cluster was discovered 1.03km south (bearing 177°) of Sahakaberd fortress (map quad B3g).
The burials of Sk BC 19 spread across the summit and eastern slope of a north-south oriented ridge. The summit is wide and flat with occasional eruptions of exposed bedrock. The slope is gentle and well-covered with soil deposits that have submerged some of the burials.
Sk BC 19 extends along the ridge approximately 250m north-south and 85m east-west. Its large population and elongated shape is typical of many Sahakaberd quadrant burial clusters, such as Sk BC 16 and 17. A wide variety of cromlech styles was recorded in the cluster, including standard, mounded, and paved. On the slope, site formation process have submerged a number of burials giving the superficial impression of widely spaced standard and paved cromlechs. The visible standard cromlechs average 3m in diameter and are built of medium, unworked basalt blocks encircling 1-3 elongated basalt capstones. The paved cromlechs on the slope are more elliptical in shape with diameters ranging between 2.5 and 3.5m. Atop the ridge, the burials appear to be more densely packed (although this may be an effect of differential colluviation/erosion from ridge to slope). Several mounded cromlechs, some surmounted by a single cyclopean capstone, were recorded in addition to standard and paved burials.
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Feature 1: is a mounded burial, 6.3m in diameter, constructed of small basalt and tuff cobbles. The encircling cromlech is visible only on the western edge where two worked basalt blocks appear to define one arc of the outer ring. One of these blocks, interestingly, appears to have been placed on end giving it the conspicuous appearance of a headstone.
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