Yenukov V.V.

Key words: Romny culture, Siveria, Seim region, hillforts, fortification, oblique palisades.
The issue addressed in the article is the existence in Romny culture of oblique palisades, a type of fortifications known from late medieval descriptions. The author argues against Yu.Yu. Morgunov’s critique of the hypothesis. The source base for the author’s argumentation comprises data from Rat’ hillfort as well as from Bolshoye Gornalskoye and Kapystichi. Rat’ revealed three obligatory elements of oblique palisade fortifications: rampart, fighting-platform and oblique palisade at the outer foot of the rampart. Only two of the above elements, the rampart and the palisade, can be indubitably identified at Gornal’ and Kapystichi.