Olga A. Lopatina^a,# and Vladimir Yu. Koval^a,##

^a Institute of Archaeology RAS, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

^#E-mail: lopatina.olga@gmail.com
^##E-mail: kovaloka@mail.ru

Keywords: the Moscow Kremlin, the Dyakovo culture, the Early Iron Age, pottery, textile imprints, Dyakovo type weights.

The article publishes materials of the Iron Age from the excavations of 2019–2021 in the Upper Tainitsky Garden of the Moscow Kremlin. The cultural layer of that time is severely disturbed. Cultural and chronological information about the site is provided mainly by pottery comprising most of the finds. In addition, the collection includes several items made of clay. The study of pottery made it possible to identify several stages in the development of the site. Only a few fragments of vessels belong to the earliest (9th–6th centuries BC) Pre-Dyakovian period. The materials of the early Dyakovo archaeological culture of the 5th–2nd centuries BC are represented most massively. A significant part of the collection consists of the pottery attributed to the Late Dyakovo culture, however, only of its middle (2nd–3rd centuries AD) and final (4th–5th centuries AD) stages. The materials from excavations in the Upper Tainitsky Garden are the remains of the same settlement that had been uncovered by means of test pits under the Archangel Cathedral.

DOI: 10.31857/S0869606322030102