Burial ground with spurs from STEPPE KUMA REGION
An archaeological expedition of State Unitary Enterprise “Heritage” headed by A.V. Lychagin conducted rescue excavations of Pokoinoye 2 burial mound in 2014. Burial 6 containing spurs was studied in barrow 12. The discovery of spurs is unique for medieval nomadic antiquities, and only two similar findings have been registered, exclusively in the territory of steppe Kuban region, and the discovery of the complex in the Middle Kuma region has expanded the geography of their distribution to the entire Steppe Ciscaucasia. Due to the lack of explicit chronological reference points, the Stavropol burial is currently dated 12th-14th centuries.