Makarov N.A., Krasnikova A.M., Zaitseva I.Ye.

The article publishes the fi rst results of archeological investigations at the Bolshoe Davydovskoe 2 ground cemetery in Suzdal Opolye. Fourteen burials, dating to the second half of the 3d – the 5th cc., have been investigated. Bolshoe Davydovskoe 2 cemetery is the furthest northwestern point on the map of Finnic inhumation burials of the 3d – 5th cc. The artifact assemblage is on the whole similar to the assemblages from Ryazan-Oka cemeteries, which are encountered in about 250 km to the south of the excavation site.