Рятівні археологічні дослідження на поселенні Сокільники-1 в 2022 році

The results of research on the multilayered settlement of Sokilnyky-1 near Lviv have been introduced into scientific circulation. It is noted that the settlement is located within the boundaries of the village of Sokilnyky of the Sokilnytsia territorial community in the area of Proektovana–Knyahyni Olhy and Truskavetska streets. It is noted that it has been known in the scientific literature since 1974–1975. It is indicated that in 2022, 2 096 m² were researched in the western part of the settlement, and 45 archaeological objects of 3 cultural and chronological horizons were discovered. Several main types of objects have been identified: residential buildings, household buildings, hearths, household pits, and pillar pits.

According to the chronological criteria, objects that belong to three chronological periods have been identified: the early horizon, belonging to the Late Roman period (3 ^th–4 ^th centuries AD); the second horizon, which can be tentatively attributed to the 5^th–7^th centuries AD and associated with the Prague archaeological culture; the third horizon, which belongs to the 8^th–9^th centuries AD and the Rajky culture.

In the excavation of 2022, two lines of development were traced. It was noted that the objects of the Late Roman period are located mainly in the southern part of the excavated area, along the foot of the cape-shaped highland, where household and residential buildings were discovered. It was found that the second line is located higher up the slope and is also elongated from west to east, closer to the top of the cape-shaped highland, where the predominance of objects with materials from the Slavic period was recorded.

It was concluded that an important discovery is the founding of a complex of artifacts and structures of the Early Slavic Prague culture of the 5^th–7^th centuries, which may become a connecting link between the site's first horizon and the Rajky culture's materials.