CEMETERY OF FRONTOVOE 3. NEW DATA ON THE CULTURE OF THE CRIMEA IN THE ROMAN AND EARLY GREAT MIGRATION PERIODS

This article publishes an account of a new flat cemetery located near modern Frontovoe village (Nakhimovskii district, Sevastopol), which was discovered and completely researched by a team of the Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences during the rescue works in 2018. The cemetery in question appeared in the late 1st c. AD and existed as long as the early 5th c. AD. Chronological zones of the cemetery have been determined, particularly considering the dates of 40 coins plus. The article supplies a characteristic of funeral rites and main categories of the finds, particularly about 15,000 beads, 800 vessels plus, and about 4 000 other artefacts (mostly metal ware).