Kichilkossky I burial ground

Materials of burials with coins from Kichilkossky I burial ground are analyzed. The burial ground is located in the upper courses of the river Vym', the right tributary of the river Vychegda. The burial ground refers to Vym' culture of the Vychegda Perm (XI-XIV centuries), ancestors of the Komi-Zyryans. 217 burials were studied, in twenty of which coins were found, that makes 9,2 % out of the excavated burials. There are presented more than 76 West European coins of X- XI centuries - Czech, German, Danish, Dutch, and one Samanid dirham of X century. Burials with coins are localized in the southern part of the burial ground. From 1 to 20 coins are found in the burials. Among burials with coins, by grave goods, eight were referred to man's (40 % out of burials with coins), 12 female (60 %). By quantity of coins man's and female's burials do not much differ. The majority of burials contain rich and diverse implements. The developed, on the basis of coins and analogies, chronology of objects of grave goods allows to refer these burials to the early stage of the Vym' culture and to chronological frames of XI - first half of XII century. For burials with coins of Kichilkossky I burial ground characteristic is the prevalence of the ceremony of dead body position (in 18 out of 20 burials). Two female burials are made by way of cremation in the log-cabin. In ware implements Bulgarian and Old Russian articles are singled out. Bulgarian, bronze and silver adornments and objects of belt decorations are analogous for the Early Rodanovo sites and, possibly, have got to the territory of the Vychegda Permians from the Rodanovians. The Old Russian articles and West European denariums (half-copeck coins) testify to the initial stage of contacts of local population with the Novgorod merchants- bodyguards making incidental military-trading expeditions to the European Northeast, not accompanied by their settling in the lands of the Vychegda Permians in XI - first half of XII century. The earliest Old Russian settlements appear on Vychegda, Vym' and Sysola in the second half of XII century.