У статті введено до наукового обігу результати досліджень об’єктів ранніх слов’ян празько-корчацької культури на багатошаровому поселенні у
південній частині міста Рівного. Це житло-напівземлянка з піччю-кам’янкою, господарська яма
і вогнище, які, вірогідно, складали один житлово-господарський комплекс. Аналізується колекція
ліпних глиняних горщиків із досліджених об’єктів.
The paper introduces into scientific circulation the
results of research of the objects of Early Slavs of the
Prague-Korchak culture in a multi-layered settlement
in the southern part of Rivne city. The settlement is
located on the eastern shore of the Basiv Kut Reservoir,
on the oval hill measuring 220 × 120 m. The first
finds of the Early Middle Ages were discovered here
by V. K. Piasetskyi in 1989. In 2019, the excavations
were carried out on the area of 590 m2; the housing and
storage pit of the Prague-Korchak culture have been
discovered. The quadrangular foundation pit of 3.5 ×
3.5 m square was sunk into the earth to the 0.3—0.4 m
from detection level. The remains of stone stove made
on the wooden frame were located in the northern corner
of the dwelling. Such semi-dugout dwellings with
the stove in one of corners was the main type of residential
buildings in the population of the Prague-Korchak
culture. The pillar holes found in the corners of
the foundation pit and in the middle of the walls indicate
the frame-pillar construction of the wooden walls.
Among the stones from the destroyed stove and on
the earthen floor in the central part of the foundation
pit of the dwelling the remains of nine clay pots were
found. We managed to reconstruct the full profiles of
seven of them; two else vessels are represented by the
profiles of the upper parts. The pots from the dwelling
have a conical body, weakly marked shoulder, scarcely
marked neck and short rim. The surface of the item
is insufficiently smoothed and bumpy. The admixtures
in the clay are mostly of small and medium size, with
added fireclay, grus and sand. By their size the vessels
are divided into small (1), medium (5) and large
(3). All pots from the dwelling belong to variants 1—3
of the first type according to I. P. Rusanova’s classification.
This combination is typical of the early monuments
of the Prague-Korchak culture. The analysis
allows attributing the ceramic complex from Rivne to
phaze 1 according to I. O. Havritukhin and to date it as
belonging to the second half of 5th — mid-6th centuries.
The settlement was not large; two or three farmsteads
could simultaneously exist there. They were located at
a distance of 100—150 m from each other.
