The Busharino hillfort on the Setun river and its resource area

The paper presents results of recent studies at the Busharino hillfort in the Moscow region as well as results of paleobotanical studies in its vicinities. The chronology of finds originating from the hillfort was specified, the attribution of the Roman copper coin found back in 1957 was clarified. A high precision plan of the site was performed. The site is attributed to a special type of three-rampart hillforts not adapted to the terrain. Some discrepancies in the chronology of mass finds (3rd century BC – 3rd century AD) and the date of the Roman coin (4th century AD) were identified. The study of buried soils under the Medieval Russia kurgans situated two kilometers away from the hillfort as well as peat deposits in the nearest marsh (1,5 km) were undertaken. These made it possible to establish that these areas had gone through several slash-andburn agricultural cycles in I mill. BC – first centuries AD providing, therefore, reliable evidence of agricultural activities.