Shorin A.F., Zykov A.P., Vilisov E.V.

Key words: Middle Trans-Urals, Koksharovsky Kholm, ritual site, Middle Ages, Batyrskaya culture.
The article analyzes the medieval assemblage from Koksharovsky Kholm in the Middle Trans-Urals and substantiates the assumption that it belongs to the Batyrskaya archaeological culture, which dates to the second half or the end of the 6th – the 7th – the middle of the 8th c. The Batyrskaya culture is native to the forest Trans-Urals and should probably be interpreted, together with the Lower Ob’ culture, as part of the Ob’-Irtysh historical and cultural complex, in the southwest region of which it was located. The artifacts in the Batyrskaya assemblage from Koksharovsky Kholm (bronze sheath, iron knife and stem arrowhead, 2 daggers, fragments of 36 vessels) and the fact that the assemblage was found at the top of the hill allow interpreting the location both as a dwelling-site and as a ritual site.