Paduobės (Šaltaliūnės) III grupės pilkapynas

LT2008 m. pratęsti Paduobės (Šaltaliūnės) III grupės pilkapyno (Švenčionių r.) (A1096P) tyrinėjimai, LNM pradėti 1987 m [p. 108].

ENIn 2008, area 3 (101 m2) was excavated in a part of Paduobė (Šaltaliūnė) group III barrow cemetery (Švenčionys District) to be destroyed by a small road. Human cremation 3 was excavated. The majority of the grave goods found in the burial were small fragments of burnt ornaments: parts of bronze bracelets and a neck-ring (?) as well as fragments of glass or enamel beads. Some of the finds have fused into formless bronze masses. Over ten charred and melted finds as well as several small cremated bones were discovered in the vicinity of the burial. Small cremated bones and burnt pottery sherds were also found in an excavated area of approximately 20 m². The pottery sherds are the same as those found in disturbed cremation 1 and its vicinity, which were investigated in 2005. After examining the cremated bones found in this part of the area, it was determined that some of them are not human, one bear (?) phalanx (claw) being found among them. Obviously the bones and pottery sherds from disturbed cremation 1 were scattered over a wider area. The bones found in this burial are, by their structure, more characteristic of a large animal. The chance finds that have been collected and the burial assemblages allow the burials or the associated funeral rites to be dated to a later period than the excavated barrows in this cemetery, i. e. to the 8th–10th century. Obviously burials were made in this part of the barrow cemetery somewhat later than those made in the already excavated barrows.