Коростень посідає особливе місце в історіографії
вивчення періоду напередодні утворення Київської
Русі. Особливо інформативною пам’яткою для вивчення багатьох питань розвитку матеріальної
культури, господарства, військової справи, генезису ранніх міських центрів виступає городище 1, на
якому збереглись стратифіковані нашарування середини Х ст. Стаття присвячена проблемі дослідження топографії городища 1 за результатами
археологічних розкопок 2013 р.
Archaeological sites of the chronicle Iskorosten located
in the modern city of Korosten, Zhytomyr region,
have been attracting the attention of historians and
archaeologists for almost 200 years. F. A. Kozubovsky,
I. P. Rusanova, M. P. Kuchera, B. A. Zvizdetsky examined
the site.
The paper contains the results of surveys of the site
in 2013 which made significant additions to understanding
of the nature of settlement 1 and the ancient
chronicle city.
Findings of scientific value were discovered, and
the topography of the settlement was clarified. During
the excavations of a part of the defensive moat of the
settlement 1 the numerous fragments of wheel-made
pottery were discovered. According to its morphological
features it could be dated to the to the first half the
tenth century.
Finds of household items, parts of clothing and
jewelry were also recorded. The details of the decoration
of military equipment — belt plates are the finds
of great interest. These heart-shaped plates made of
gilded silver and decorated with floral ornaments
made by stamping on the matrix. The surface is additionaly
decorated with embossed small elements of ornament.
The large thick plates with slotted holes and smaller
ones without slots can be distinguished. The similarity
of the size, details of the shape and ornament indicate
that they probably come from one belt set and were
made on two matrices by one craftsman.
The real discovery in the study of the capital of
Drevlians land can be named the finding of the location
of citadel (Detynets) cultural layers. Most scholars
considered them irretrievably lost for science. The
small elevation at the beginning of the entrance onto
the hill on the swampy floodplain of the tributary of
Uzh river turned out to the place where in the 30s of
the twentieth century the cultural layers of the citadel
were moved.
