peasants of the village of Zalivaki (Cherkassy district). Walking through the shifting sands adjacent to the village, one of the peasants of the village of Zalivav noticed the end of some iron tool protruding from the sand; Having taken out this object, he saw that it was a large iron saber, completely rotten from rust and broken in his hands; Having cleared the sand in that place, he entered at a depth of 3'4 arshins: two gold bracelets, the ends of which, remaining free, were covered with blue enamel; two large gold neck-shaped hryvnias, consisting of thick, gold, spirally twisted wire, entwined with another thin wire; a gold ring, the same pendant and several shards covered with patterns from a clay vessel of very elegant workmanship; at a close distance, in the same sands, two grains of carnelian monist were found *).
In the town of Romanovka, Skvirsky district, the owner of the Porechye farm, Mr. Volman, accidentally stumbled upon a very original archaeological find in his own estate. According to him, he found a chamber built of unfired red brick (?) and at the bottom of it there was a pile of coal, ash, burnt bones and shards of clay vessels; at the upper edge of the walls of the chamber lay symmetrically located: six cones made of red clay and six roughly sculpted figures from the same clay; four of them depicted human figures (1 female and 8 male), one human figure with excessively long ears and one quadruped; Moreover, inside the chamber, at different depths, were found: two small vessels made of red clay, made without the help of a potter’s wheel, and a wide, flat clay bowl. According to Mr. Wolman, in the same place, several years earlier, a vessel containing a carnelian necklace was found at a slight depth2).
*) The listed items are kept by the owner of the village, Mrs. Raevskaya; a description of the find, along with drawings of things, was definitely communicated to me by Doctor Bukovsky (from Smela).
*) Mr. Volman gave the things he found to Mr. Kibalchich, in whose museum they are probably kept.
V. V. ANTONOVICH,
The listed finds are random discoveries and not all could be described with the desired accuracy. Then I will turn to a list of excavations undertaken for scientific purposes and using scientific methods. The excavation closest to Kyiv was undertaken in July by a member of the 3rd Archaeological Congress, V.P. Naumenvon, in the vicinity of the Kitayev desert. On the high mountain separating the church from the Dnipro, there is an ancient settlement, in which M. A. Maksimovich recognized with high probability the location of the ancient Kyiv Peresechen. To the southwest of the settlement there are two large groups of mounds, containing approximately 500 mounds; in the group immediately adjacent to the settlement, several mounds were excavated in 1874 by D. Ya. Samovvasovn; the objects found in them (a large iron cross, a small bronze cross on the same chain) indicated that these mounds date back to Christian times; In July of this year, Mr. Naumenko excavated 3 mounds of another group, located at a distance of V? miles from the previous one. In one of them the skeleton of a child was found and with it an iron knife; in two other mounds there were clear traces of the burning of a corpse: at 13 heights of the embankment in both mounds there were spots made of densely trampled yellow clay, covered with a layer of ash and coal, among which there were fragments of burnt human bones and very few objects: fragments of vessels made on a potter’s wheel, iron nails, a bronze staple and an iron lock, representing a hollow cube with a hole for a key in the shape of the letter T and with a lock spring preserved inside 1).
Member of the Moscow Archaeological Society, B. Yu. Popovsky, excavated nine mounds near the village of Samgorodka in Skvirskoe
') V.P. Naumenko definitely told me information about his excavation and donated the things found to the museum of the University of St. Vladimir.