Археологічні дослідження під час реставраційних робіт сакрального комплексу на території урочища Замочок у місті Белз

The results of archeological research carried out during the emergency and restoration works of the sacred complex on the territory of the Zamochok tract in Belz are presented. The restoration facilities included walls with a cross road and chapels built in 1938 . In total, the whole complex including the church, bell tower, gate and altar of St. Nicholas Valentine was built during 1911–1938 years.

The plot on which the complex is located on the territory of the archeological monument of national importance «the Horodyshche of  the annalistic Belz of the X–XIII century».  It is located in the south-eastern outskirts of the modern city, occupying an elongated elevation among the marshland of the Solocia River.  Around the perimeter of the settlement was surrounded by an earthen shaft with a wooden wall. The shaft is preserved only partially from the north and north-east side. The settlement consists of two parts – a detinets and a subhoroddum. The detinets occupies its western part. From the east to it adjoins the platform of the hill, which is removed from it almost completely destroyed by a shaft and a wide decayed moat. The area has a powerful archeological cultural layer.

During the archeological research, a fragment of a wooden structure with a number of vertically hammered piles was discovered. We interpret them together as the construction of the shaft over which the embankment was saturated, saturated with white mainland clay. By the nature of the location, the discovered part belongs to the inner side of the defensive line. The discovered moving material allows selling it at the beginning of the 11^th century, which chronologically coincides with the first chronicle mention of the city. Among the ceramic material found several fragments of stucco utensils 8^th–10^th centuries, indicating the likely existence of the Slavic settlement in these areas, which preceded the annalistic city.

A number of individual findings related to various aspects of the activities of the ancient Belz population have also been found. The development of writing is evidenced by a fragment written with a shovel in the form of an «axe». Religious objects are represented by the cross-encolpion of the 10^th century. Among the decorations we note the colt and several glass bracelets. One of the most interesting and finds was a faceted «coin-weight mouth» with a fuzzy two-sided image. The latter requires additional study and analysis, since its interpretation in the article is preliminary.