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    Localization of the Bilsk Transportation According to Archaeological Research and Remote Sensing
    (2024) Korotia Oleksii; Коротя Олексій; Osadchyi Yevhen Mykolaiovych; Осадчий Євген Миколайович
    The article is devoted to the localization of one of the crossings of the Vorskla River near the village of Bilsk. The Bilsk crossing is mentioned in written sources only once without its exact location. This is a little-known river crossing, but its functioning is closely related to the history of the region’s settlement and the development of transport infrastructure.The aim of the work is to determine the location of the Bilsk crossing in the early modern period, to find out the features of its structure and functioning, as well as to analyze archaeological artifacts that may be related to the functioning of the crossing.To solve this problem, the methods inherent in complex source studies were applied. They combine the analysis of written sources, data from archaeological excavations and surveys, and remote sensing of certain areas. The latest remote sensing devices were used – unmanned aerial vehicles and ground-based LIDAR. These devices made it possible to obtain a detailed view of thearea, which is covered with dense forest, as well as to display artificial transformations that arose during the operation of the crossing. Conclusions. As a result of applying the data obtained, the places where a stop could have taken place before crossing the river were identified. One of the key points of the study is to identify the places where the descent into the floodplain and ascent to the original bank took place. As a starting point for the research, we chose the village of Bilsk as the place name that gave the crossing its name. Subsequently, we analyzed the hydrographic objects - the Vorskla and Rubizhna rivers - and found out their flows in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries based on maps. More attention was paid to determining the location of the crossing on the left bank of the Vorskla River, as the choice of a place to ascend is not as obvious as on the right bank.To confirm our assumption, we used data from archaeological surveys on the left bank of the Vorskla River, north of Kotelva. According to the research, artifacts of the Cossack period werefound in only one place, namely at the settlement “Staryi Karier” in the Zinkivshchyna tract. All of the discovered artifacts date back to the seventeenth to eighteenth centuries and are somehow related to vehicles or items needed for travel. Indirect evidence is the absence of ceramics from this period, which excludes the possibility of a small farm in the early modern period. The analysis of the terrain revealed the remains of a dried-up lake, which could have been a source of water for horses and oxen of travelers, as well as a ramp that could be conveniently climbed up the cape’s arrow to the first floodplain terrace on the left bank of the Vorskla.The scientific novelty of the work lies in the fact that by comparing the data obtained from various sources, we were able to reconstruct the route that led from the village of Bilsk to the crossing of the Vorskla River and the place where the ascent to the left bank of this river took place.
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    Study of the Kuzemin Fortification of the Bilsk Settlement Using LIDAR
    (2024) Korotia Oleksii; Коротя Олексій
    The article is devoted to the history of research and interpretation of the Kuzemynske fortification of the Bilsk settlement. This part of the fortifications is located in the northeastern part of the settlement and is the most affected by economic activity. The development of the settlement and uncontrolled clay extraction near the ramparts distorted the surrounding landscape so much that it is sometimes difficult to determine whether the researcher is looking at the remains of quarry dumps or an archaeological site.Kuzemynske fortification has a long history of research and its existence was not questioned for almost a hundred years, until Poltava archaeologist P.Havrysh, a native of Bilsk village, drew attention to it. He expressed doubts about its existence and published his findings in a professional journal. This gave rise to a discussion about the existence of the Kuzemyn fortification, which continues to this day. One of the problems that complicated the resolution of this scientific discussion was the lack of a clear and understandable topographical plan of the northern part of the Bilsk settlement. This was facilitated by the peculiarity of the site’s location on the territory of two regions. The territory of the Poltava region was regularly surveyed by specialists of numerous archaeological expeditions from Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Poltava, while the part of the territory of the Sumy region remained unexplored for a long time.In order to solve the problem of the presence of this defensive structure, in 2007 the staff of the Bilsk Conservation Area conducted explorations in the north-eastern, Sumy, part of the Bilsk settlement. As a result, they discovered a fragment of a rampart and a ditch, the direction of whichgenerally coincided with the drawings made by previous researchers, but there were no archaeological finds that would allow for reliable dating of these defences. In 2014, a joint expedition of the Institute of Archeology of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (headed by D.Hrechko) and the Bilsk Reserve, with the participation of students from Sumy Pedagogical University, carried out a full section of the rampart and ditch. However, this result again did not satisfy P.Havrysh, who criticised the research methodology and interpretation of the results. To finally solve the problem, the essence of which lies in the subjective perception of a topographically complex area, it is necessary to use methods and equipment that will allow solving a set of tasks: to fix the passage of the line of the Kuzemin fortification in relation to the Great Wall of the Bilsk settlement, as well as its connection with the surrounding relief. These issues can be solved by using LIDAR surveying.
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    Topography and Defensive Buildings of Kotelva Hillfort
    (2023) Коротя Олексій; Korotia Oleksii
    The article is devoted to the results of archaeological explorations on the territory of the Kotelva hillfort, which is located to the northeast of the Bilsk hillfort. Today, the Kotelva hillfort is one of the controversial archaeological sites, which contains materials from the Bronze Age and the final stage of the Early Iron Age. The peculiarity of this archaeological site is that it is located on the left bank of the Vorskla river, which is unique for the Early Iron Age settlements of this region. Earlier, its belonging to the Scythian period was doubted. In addition, there are no finds from the VI-IV centuries BC on the hillfort, and it was at this time that all the Scythian hillforts known today were built, which also complicates the dating of defensive structures in particular. Today, the question of the origin of the fortifications of the hillfort and their connection with the archaeological cultures discovered during the excavations of recent years is relevant. Two important aspects were highlighted in the work, namely, the analysis of the paleorelief and defensive structures of the hillfort, the solution of which will allow us to answer the time of its origin and the specifics of the location of this monument.