The Vyazma 'small town’ based on written and archaeological data

This paper summarizes data on the excavations performed in the Small Town (the Cathedral Hill) in Vyazma. It presents the results of pollen and anthropological analyses. Based on the 2017 excavations, it was established that in the 13th century there had been a cemetery on the Cathedral Hill which was confined in the south by a residential area. After the fire at the end of the 13th century this area was abandoned to be rebuilt in the 16th/17th centuries when a wooden castle, i.e. a wooden fortress with three towers and log walls filled up with earth (horodnya), was built.