Archaeological works on the territory of the Assumption Trifon monastery
The paper is devoted to the description of the archaeological supervision work carried out by the Kirov regional Museum in the territory of the Vyatka assumption Trifonov monastery. In 1580, the city on the ground outside the walls of the policeman based men Uspensky Trifonov monastery. In the early 1930s the monastery was finally closed. Since the mid-1980s, systematic and large-scale restoration of the ensemble of the assumption Trifonov monastery began. During the restoration work carried out on the territory of the monastery, in 1989-1991. employees of the sector of archeology of the Kirov regional Museum under The leadership of L. A. Sennikova carried out archaeological observations of earthworks. In the process of archaeological supervision 6 trenches for underground communications and pits along the walls of the fraternal corps were examined. The authors considers on archaeological material confirm the presence of the town cemetery XV- XVI centuries to define its boundaries. Just over 60 burials were found in the trenches. A feature of the burials are widespread mutual violations of the burial pits. Layers which are traces of the fires which destroyed constructions of a monastery in 1674 and 1679 were revealed.Besides, two burial constructions (crypt) connected with activity of a monastery in Modern time were revealed, it was succeeded to define the personality of one of buried, to fix funeral rites of hierarchs of Russian Orthodox Church in the XIX century on the basis of the morphological analysis with application of natural science methods some features of elements of material culture of a monastery farmstead, production technology and chronological frames of the found subjects were revealed.