Hn BC 14 is 0.54km northeast (bearing 52°) of Hnaberd fortress and 0.36km northeast of Hn BC 04 of which it may in fact be a part. Hn stela 1 was found in this cluster (map quad B3i).
The terrain on which Hn BC 14 rests is a rocky terminal slope of Mt. Aragats, directly overlooking the base of the mountain. The area is littered with boulders and eroding natural bedrock. Flat areas have been cleared and are now under cultivation.
Due to intervening building projects and other forms of disturbance, Hn BC 14 is separated from its much larger neighbor, Hn BC 04. And yet the burials are in many respects quite similar suggesting that they may once have been part of a single vast necropolis that stretched eastward from the foot of Hnaberd fortress. Visible styles of burials include standard and mounded cromlechs as well as several kurgans. The cromlechs are quite large, ranging from 6 to 12m in diameter and built of medium to large worked and unworked basalt blocks. The three kurgans noted in the cluster ranged in diameter from 6 to 12m. All three were constructed of tuff and basalt cobbles, although one also showed signs of basalt blocks integrated into the mound.
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Feature 1: is a modest-sized oblong cromlech, 6m in diameter north-south and 5m east-west. It is built of small tuff and basalt cobbles and rises 0.30m above the level of the surrounding ground surface. Despite the possible evidence for disturbance suggested by the burial's irregular dimensions, there was no visible sign of an encircling ring.
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