Preliminary results of the excavations at the Naŭry II necropolis dating to the second half of the first millennium ad in the context of the studies of burial sites in the northern regions of the Republic of Belarus

The article examines the materials from the excavations of the necropolis Naŭry II (Miadziel district Minsk region), carried out in 2017–2020 by A. Plavinski, M. Plavinski and V. Tarasevich. During four years of excavations in the necropolis Naŭry II 733 sq. meters were studied. As a result of the research it was revealed that the necropolis consists of kurgan barrows with cremation burials and graves with cremations without kurgans. Two cultural and chronological horizons can be identified in the necropolis functioning. The first horizon includes kurgans dating back to the third quarter of I millennium AD. The second horizon includes burials without cremations, which can be attributed to the culture of the Smolensk-Polоtsk long barrows which falls within the broad range of the 8th – early / first half of the 11th centuries.