Sarmatian and early medieval burial mounds of the East Azov region (based on security excavations in 2014)

The article is devoted to the publication of security excavation materials of three burial mounds from the Peschanokop district of Rostov-on-Don region. Each burial mound contained only one looted tomb. The tomb in the shaft-in-chamber from the mound Bogoroditsky IV with featureless inventory and western orientation belongs to sarmatian culture of the 3rd - 1st century BC. Infill of the tomb contained parts of two unevenaged men’s skulls, handmade pottery parts and a gray-clay wheeled bowl. The pottery has North-Caucasian origins, but it is not exactly dated. The tomb from mound 6 of the burial mound Peschanokop belongs to the undermound Sarmatian catacombs dated by Roman period. A censer and a gray-clay wheeled bowl have meotian analogies, dated by the 2nd century AD. The dating of the tomb is confirmed by the golden pendant-medallions incrusted by the red carnelian insertion which belonged to the Greek-Roman polychrome style. The analogies are found in the Volga-Don and Kuban regions...