Galina V. Beltikova , Viktor A. Borzunov
Urals Federal University, Yekaterinburg (victor.borzunov@mail.ru)
Keywords: Western Siberia, taiga, Early Iron Age, hoard, bronze, iron, glass articles.

This paper gives a general description and new drawings of the artefacts from a unique hoard containing 54 items found at the site of Barsov Gorodok I/20 in the Barsova Gora area near the western outskirts of the Surgut city in 1986. Among the finds there are a fragment of the earliest in the taiga Ob area iron sledge hammer, a classical yellow budded glass bead, individual and serial ornaments casted from golden bronze at a nearby settlement after Urals and South Siberian patterns as well. The bead can be tentatively dated to the 4th–3rd century BC while the hoard to the 2nd–3rd century AD. These articles were probably cut off the dress of a shaman and buried in a hole on the ruins of a Kulayka dwelling near a burial with a miniature bronze mask of a helmeted warrior.