Folia archeologica 53.

István Vida: Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum, Hungary, Budapest, Magyar Nemzeti Múzeum, Vol. III. Moesia Inferior, Supplement 1, Nicopolis ad Istrum

86 L.T. YABLONSKY Fig. 1. Map of Orenburg County with the situation of the Filippovka-1 cemetery 1. ábra. Az Orenburgi Terület, benne az első filippovkai temető elhelyezkedése ter-leash buckle etc.). Several of these objects were made according to the traditions of the so-called animal style. At the same spot there were some pairs of bronze and iron bits and mouthpieces (a total of around 200 objects). Under the mound five burial pits were found. Burial 1 could be recorded in the most upper layers of the mound. It was a grave of an adult man lying in a wooden coffin without any grave-goods. On the top of the coffin four hoofs and astragalos of a horse were cleaned in anatomical order. It seemed that a horse skin was placed onto the coffin. This was a secondary burial dug into the earlier barrow and in all probability can be dated to the Early Mediaeval Age. Two further secondary burials (NN 2 and 3) were situated in the eastern part of the mound, and one more (N 4) in the western part. The axis of these gravepits corresponded to the direction of the edge of the mound in the given section. This situation is widely known in the case of the Early Sarmatian barrows of the Volga and Ural regions: there are additional secondary burials forming circles around the central burial in two or even three rows. In the central part of the mound we found the primary burial (N 5). It could be determined that burials 2-5 are synchronous and can be dated to Early Sarmatian Age. All the secondary burials were untouched by robbers, so they represent „closed" archaeological assemblages. The pits of the secondary burials could be traced from the level that was higher than the surface of the buried soil and were made at the time when the lower layers of the mound made around the central burial had already existed.