Vassily D. Berezutsky*, Pavel M. Zolotarev**

*Voronezh State Pedagogical University, Russia (berezytski1@rambler.ru)
**I.N. Kramskoy History and Art Museum in Ostrogozhsk, Voronezh oblast’, Russia (zolotarev_pavel@mail.ru)

Keywords: Middle Don, Scythian period, barrows, burials, grave goods.

The article publishes the results of investigations at barrows 9–12 of the barrow cemetery near Dubovoy khutor in Ostrogozhsk region of Voronezh oblast’ (right bank of the Don). The excavations were carried out by the Return to the Source expedition of Voronezh State Pedagogical University in 2005. The paper considers the funeral rite, the grave goods and the chronological boundaries of the burials.