К вопросу о северных границах распространения памятников скифского круга в Yкраинской лесостепи (курган у с. Ладыжичи в низовьях р. Припять)
On the issue of the northern boundaries of the Scythian circle sites distribution in the Ukrainian forest-steppe (a burial mound near the Ladyzhichi Village in the lower reaches of the Prypiat River)

Summary/Abstract: The north of the Dnieper forest-steppe in the Scythian time was a zone of contacts between Scythoid tribes and Mylohrad culture bearers. The spread of sites shows that there was no clear border between these two cultural areas, and in a strip of more than 100 km these tribes lived together and had left typical settlements and burials. The northernmost burial of the Scythian type in the region is a burial mound near the Ladyzhychi village in the lower reaches of the Prypiat River. The complex was excavated in 1886 by a local landowner Zhelinsky, who handed over the finds to the Ukrainian historian and archaeologist V.B. Antonovich. Nowadays, the survived part of them is kept in the National Museum of History of Ukraine. The burial mound was located in a group of three embankments 2 km southwest from the village. It was “average in size” with a height of 2.5 arshins (about 1.77 m). The research was carried out from the top of the mound with a rectangular pit 2.16×1.42 m in size. In the lower part of the embankment or at the level of the ancient horizon, at a depth of more than 2 arshins, a burnt heap of “ash and coal” was found, possibly representing the remains of cremation on the side. On either side of it there were laid a crumbling wooden “shield”, an iron dagger and an ax, 18 or 19 bronze arrowheads, some with partially survived shafts. Bridle objects were found with them: an iron bit, a bronze noseband, a buckle of a circle and a trapezoid shapes and parts of other such buckles, four plaques – round and in the shape of a human face, a pair of “strict” bushings. And also – a fragment of a bronze pin (?). According to the set of arrowheads, the monument can be dated to the 4th century BC. Judging by the cremation rite, a representative of the local forest-steppe tribes could have been buried here.

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