В статье рассматриваются артефакты, которые относятся к наименее изученному периоду
в лесостепной части бассейна р. Северский Донец — III—I вв. до н. э. Основная часть материалов
происходит из раскопок Циркуновского городища, остальные представлены случайными находками, найденными на поверхности.
For the territory of the forest-steppe part of the river
basin. Seversky Donets, as well as for the entire Dnepro-
Donets Forest-Steppe as a whole, the period of the
last three centuries BC is the least studied. First of
all, this is due to a very limited range of archaeological
sources. The article gives an analysis of materials relating
to the III—I centuries. BC, obtained mostly as a
result of the excavations of the author, involving a few previously known random finds. In addition to the single
random finds found on the surface, the main array of artifacts associated with the period under consideration
is presented in the materials of the excavation of the Tsirkuni settlement. It is still the only monument
in the forest-steppe Donets region on which objects are found, which, according to the general context, can be
dated to the last centuries BC. Among them are fragments of imported pottery ceramics, iron brooches, a
hook, a petioled three-bladed arrowhead, several types of buckles, a bronze ring with rounded protrusions.
These findings allow us to talk about the continuation of life on some forest-steppe monuments of Scythian
time in this period and only to suggest the ethnicity of new migrants in the territory, among which could be
both late Scythians and Eastern nomads (late Sauromats, Sirmatians, Siraks).
