Редвинці — вершницький поховально-поминальний комплекс скіфського часу на Північному Поділлі

• Published in: Археологія
• Date: 2023
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 86-110
• ISSN: 2616-499X
• Author Affiliations: Oleksandr Mohylov — Кандидат історичних наук, старший науковий співробітник Інституту археології НАН України; Vitalii Hutsal — Кандидат історичних наук, завідувач Археологічної лабораторії Кам’янець-Подільського національного університету
• Main Authors: Mohylov, Oleksandr, Hutsal, Vitalii
• Format: Article
• Language: Ukrainian
• Published: Institute of Archaeology NAS of Ukraine 2023
• Subjects: Поділля; скіфський час; курган; кенотаф; вузда; стріли
• Online Access: https://arheologia.com.ua/index.php/arheologia/article/view/334
• Journal Title: Chemistry, Physics and Technology of Surface

In 1973, the archaeological expedition of Kamianets-Podilskyi Pedagogical Institute under the leadership of A. F. Hutsal and I. S. Vynokur investigated the mound no. 1 near Redvyntsi village in Khmelnytskyi District and Oblast, in the upper reaches of the Southern Buh basin. The graveyard of five mounds was located 0.5 km southwest from Redvyntsi, on the territory of the collective farm garden. The height of the embankments, located 50—60 m from each other, was 1.8—2.7 m, the diameter — 14—18 m. The height of the mound no. 1 (the biggest in the group), located in the eastern part of the burial ground, was 2.5 m, the diameter — 18 m. A burial and memorial complex was discovered under the mound: the cenotaph. It had a wooden structure with a diameter of 4.4 m. It was located on the top of the soil filling. In the centre of the layout there was a complex of items. On the side, traces of ritual hearths and ceramics near them were found. Among the finds, bridle items made of bronze should be noted. Moreover, there were plates that had the shape of a circle, a rosette and and a diamond. Buckles were found with them. Weapons include an iron spearhead and bronze three-bladed arrowheads. A glass bead was found among the jewellery. The finds have analogies in many areas of the Northern Black Sea region during the Scythian period: the Eastern Podillia group, the Dnipro River Right-bank forest-steppe region, the Ukrainian Left-bank forest-steppe, the Middle Don region and Steppe Scythia. Mound no. 1 in Redvyntsi, due to the lack of a burial, can be interpreted as a cenotaph: during the construction of whichfire rituals took place, which have comparisons in the Ukrainian forest-steppe. According to analogies, the burial mounds inRedvyntsi can be dated by the 4th century BC. The significant size of the mound, as well as the rich inventory, indicate that it wasbuilt in the memory of an ancient warrior-horseman. The deceased, who could have died in a foreign land, probably belongedto the local nobility, and headed one of the communities of the Scythian period, which lived in the 4th century BC in the upperreaches of the Southern Buh.