Ceramic items from the dwelling 3 of the Osinovoye Ozero settlement

Expedition studied the dwelling 3 at the medieval settlement of Osinovoye Ozero in the Amur Region in 2012. On the floor of the dwelling, we found 10 concentrations of broken and complete ceramic vessels. The moulded ceramic pots, which had included the special forms - peal bowl, covers and vessels with oval bottom, and associated with Troitsk group of Mohe, were the products of home craft, or made by primary group, who specialized in its production within single settlement or neighboring area. It is possible that the pottery became to emerge from the workshop, when the settlement had been on the Osinovoye Lake, but it could not been introduce to their household, but requirement of it was high in view of high quality. A few ceramic fragments from the excavation area and vessels from the dwellings 2 and 3 evidenced that the local knew the pottery wheel and made the pots, similar to pottery according to composition of mixture and rotary work of the surface. They colored it in grey or dark grey color by different methods. However, the molding of such vessels did not differ from the traditional modeling of vessels. We get the radiocarbon date by charcoal from the dwelling 3: 1535±40 ya. It is closed to the date of snuff on the fragment of Troitsk vessel from the test pit on the lower bottom-land of the Osinovoye Lake (1495±45ya), but it does not correlate with series of dates from the dwelling 2 (last quarter of 8th - 9 th centuries).