RUSSIAN ARCHAEOLOGY - SETTLEMENT OF THE 10th CENTURY ON THE FORTIFIED SITE NEAR LOBYNSKOYE IN THE UPA RIVER REGION

Aleksandr M. Kolokolov

State Museum-Reserve “Kulikovo Pole”, Tula, Russia

Keywords: Tula Region, the Oka-Don watershed, the Romny archaeological culture, fortified settlement, the second half of the 10th century AD.

The article presents the results of studies on a 10th-century settlement located on the site of a multi-layered fortified settlement near the village of Lobynskoye (8th–5th centuries BC, 1st century BC – 1st century AD, 10th century AD, 12th–13th and 14th–15th centuries AD). The fortified settlement is situated on the bank of the Lobynsky ravine, a left tributary of the Upa River, within the limits of the modern city of Tula. Excavations at the site were conducted in 2003 and 2022. During the excavations in 2003, individual finds from the late 1st – early 2nd millennium were recorded. As a result of the 2022 activities, the remains of two residential structures dating back to the considered period of the site’s functioning were studied. The totality of materials makes it possible to confine the existence of a Slavic settlement on the site of the fortified settlement to the second half of the 10th century AD. Until recently, this period represented a chronological gap in the scale of antiquities of the 8th–11th centuries AD on the territory of the Oka-Don watershed.

DOI: 10.31857/S0869606324040127, EDN: KHWFDU