The Sarmatian Graves from the Cemetery of Beisuzhek 36 in the Vicinity of the Town of Korenovsk
In 2012-2013, a team of the State Autonomous Cultural Institution of the Rostov Oblast' Donskoe Nasledie investigated two secondary Sarmatian graves from the second and first centuries BC in barrow 2 of the cemetery of Beisuzhek 36 in the vicinity of the town of Korenovsk. These burial structures were narrow rectangular pits. The dead persons were supine, with the head oriented to the west-north-west. The grave goods comprised an iron helmet, iron socketed arrowheads, a quiver hook, fragments of a sword, an iron buckle, wheel-made vessel and bowl, bones of sheep and goats, an iron knife, and so on. Imported iron helmet does not belong to any known type. There are images of similar helmets at Bosporan tombstones and on the figures of bowmen on Trajan's Column. Grave 3 with the helmet confirmed a few trends: helmet graves gravitated towards the Kuban area and Central Ciscaucasia, and the helmets were found mostly in ordinary graves.