A Sub-Mountainous Barrow Featuring "Collective" Grave
This paper publishes the materials excavated from a barrow in 2017 by the team of the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Institute of Archaeology of the Crimea during the archaeological research along the Taurida Highway, in the Simferopol administrative district of the Republic of the Crimea, near the town of Zuia. The barrow of Dmitrovo-2 was located 21 km east of Simferopol, 30-50 m south of the current road from Simferopol o Belogorsk (fg. 1). The mound is heavily ploughed up. In result, its diameter reached 40-45 m, and the height decreased to 0.4-0.5 m. The barrow of Dmitrovo-2 contained a burial vault of stone, from the Scythian age, containing collective burials and a few horse’s graves from the same period. The wide chronology of the site is from the second half of the forth to the third century BC.