The ritual hoard from barrow 1 of the burial mound Restumov II in the Rostov region

The paper presents the ritual complex, which was found during the excavation of barrow 1 of the burial mound Restumov II on the left bank of the river Severskiy Donets in the Rostov region in 2001.The complex consisted of a bronze cauldron with the following items: bits, rod-shaped cheek-pieces with flattened endings, phalerae with remnants of golden plating, three-bladed iron arrowheads with long petioles, a circular buckle with movable latch, a fragment of a mirror, spoon-shaped pendants - tips of belts, a fragment of an iron sleeve with a bronze ring. The complex was located in the eastern part of the barrow at a depth of about 1.5 m. The ritual hoard of the burial mound Restumov II can be dated back to the 2nd - 1st centuries BC. Three-bladed arrowheads with long faceted stalks allow specifying the date of the complex to the first half - the mid2nd century BC.The predominance of items peculiar of the Early Sarmatian culture of the Lower Don region in the complex allows the authors to suggest that the hoard was buried by Sarmatians...