Gennadii E. Dubrovin*, Olga A. Tarabardina**

* Institute of Archaeology of RAS, Moscow (gendub@mail.ru)
** Novgorod Museum-Reserve, Velikiy Novgorod (o.tarabardina@mail.ru)

Key words: Novgorod, Fyodorovskiy excavation site, Slavkova street, the estate G, constructions, dendrodata, property and social status.

The article is devoted to the townsplot G in the last third of the 11th – the middle of the 12th c. The plot G was situated in the Fyodorovskiy excavation site in the Plotnitsky “konets” (district) of medieval Novgorod, on the southern shore of the Fyodorovskiy stream. The plot arose in the late 11th century on the Slavkova street, the first paving level of which was laid simultaneously with the formation of the early building phase of the plot (1079–1086).The archaeological material from this plot indicates a consistently high economic and social status of its inhabitants. The stability of the layout during approximately 70 years indicates that the members of one family owned the plot. The finding of a birch bark document № 789 with the list of inhabitants’ debts of the settlements near the eastern border of the future Bezhetsk Pyatina, as well as wooden cylindrical lock indicating the amount in five hryvnias, can attest to the fact that the owner of the plot, perhaps, was on the Prince’s service as the “emets” or “mechnick” (swordsman) and was engaged in the collection of taxes on the eastern border areas of the Novgorod land. The complex of finds of Byzantine origin (the lead ampoule with the image of Christ and St. Demetrios, bronze coin – anonymous follis of the first half of the 11th century, fragments of inlaid glass bracelets and piece of semi-majolica vessel) suggests that at the end of the 11th century representative of the family, who owned the plot G, presumably, made a pilgrimage to Byzantium, to the Holy places in Thessaloniki (Solun) – the place of veneration of St. Demetrios.