Hn AR 01 was found 1.12km southwest (bearing 245°) of Gekhadzor fortress and 0.88km north (bearing 6°) of Hnaberd fortress (map quad B3m).
Set next to a swiftly flowing, small creek, these constructions were built on the flatland of the Tsaghkahovit plain, half a kilometer from the foot of Mt. Aragats.
The primary architecture extant at this site consists of two parallel stone walls, 12m long and 1.9m wide. Adjacent is a pit, 7m in diameter, now largely infilled. The masonry of the walls appears to be stone on stone with no visible intervening core. The stones do appear to have been faced and the lines are well-carpentered. An intriguing secondary feature is a stone lined channel, 100m to the southeast, that may have been associated. The channel is 2-2.5m in width and lined with cut basalt slabs.
Although no surface materials were recovered here, the combination of the stream and the built water channel, filled by snow melt from Mt. Aragats, hints that this may have been a medieval era flour mill. But this is at present only speculation as no materials were recovered to confirm either the date or function of the construction.
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