THE PECULIARITIES OF VOLYN CERAMIC ASSEMBLAGES OF THE SECOND HALF OF THE 13th — FIRST HALF OF THE 14th CENTURIES IN HNIDAVSKA HIRKA NEAR LUTSK

Abstract

In the territory of the Halych-Volyn principality, the relevance of the study of monuments dating from time after the Mongol-Tatar pogroms in the middle of the 13^th century is determined by their insignificant number, regional features and insufficiently developed chronology of various categories of things. The study of pottery remains an important task, since it is the most numerous group of findings during the research of the medieval settlements.

Interesting ceramic complexes of the second half of the 13^th — the first half of the 14^th centuries were found during the excavation of two dwellings in a settlement in Hnidavskaa Hirka near the village of Rovantsi in Lutsk district. The majority of the findings form by the fragments of pots; besides, there are also frying pans, bowls, pitchers, and large earthenware pots. Pots are divided into two groups. The first group belongs to the type that appeared at the end of the 11^th century and spread throughout Southern Rus in the 12^th — first half of the 13^th century. New trends that developed after the Mongol-Tatar pogroms are revealed in the features of the rim profiling and new techniques of ornamentation of pots of the second group. The outer edge of the rim is divided by a horizontal groove, and there is an ornament under the rim — a horizontal line of pressings. By analogy with Lutsk, Volodymyr-Volynskyi, and Peresopnytsia, they can be dated to the second half of the 13^th—14^th centuries. According to the ratio of the number of pots of both groups in each of the dwellings and dating of other findings, their chronology is defined as the middle — second half of the 13^th century (dwelling 9) and the end of the 13^th — first half of the 14^th centuries (dwelling 1).