The excavtions were carried outin the Western part of the settlement in 2007. The excavated area was more than 2000 m2. T 28 features were revealed 5 houses, 1 household, 6 adobe kilns of an open type, 14 kitchen pits and 2 clusters of puddle clay. Over 2150 artefacts were recovered.
There were five sunken-floored buildings. The foundation pits were 4.2 – 4.4 × 4.6 – 4.8 m in size, 1.05 –1.26 m in depth from the level of the modern surface and were of rectangular and square shape, without fixed orientation by cardinal directions. Postholes were found along the perimeter of some of the buildings. Adobe hearths were found in one of the corners in all of the buildings.
One household appeared to be a roundfoundation pit with three adobe hearths in the north-eastern wall. The foundation pit was 3 × 3.1 m in size, the floor was at 1.26 m depth. The hearths were oval and almost equal in size, 0.8 × 1 m in size.
The adobe hearths were generally oval (0.61– 08 × 1 – 1.4 m in size, 0.5 m in depth). The surface of the hearth was flat and a little bit concave. Two hearths in which animal bones were used in the construction are of particular interest. A ground of the long bones of animals was laid and covered with slurry (clay wash) before the construction.
The kitchen pits were generally of a round shape with slightly sloping walls and an even floor. The depth was 0.6 – 1.2 m. There were remains of the construction waste such as fragments of the puddle clay, coal, and burnt stones in some of the pits. In the filling of the pits were also found fragments of hand-made pottery, animal bones and some individual findings.
The major part of the finds are fragments of hand-made pottery, although only twotwo unbroken pots were found. There were fragments of Chernyakhivska and Pastyrske types of pottery and a Byzantine amphorae. The fragments of hand-made pottery belonged to the pots of different sizes and pans. Individual finds of the early Medieval Ages are presented by the spindle whorls, awls of bone and horn, whetstones, glass beads, bronze plates, and parts of millstones. One of the most interesting finds is an embowed 29 cm long cover made of horn. There is a rectangular ledge with four holes in the middle of the cover. The bows are asymmetrical; the sides are rounded, with the holes at the ends. The edges are cut and polished. This is similar to the previously discovered bone (horn) covers of 9th – 10th centuries. Those are bone plates 20 cm long embowed with a ledge in the middle. There are holes in the center and at the ends of plates. The plates are considered to be used in horse saddles.
Peculiarities of the hand-made pottery, construction of dwellings, hearths, and individual findings allow to consider that the majority of the excavated objects belong to the 8th – 9th centuries (Slavs).
Other cultural and chronological stages are presented by single finds from the cultural layer of the settlement. There were two flint artifacts and some fragments of the hand-made pottery walls of the Eneolithic age and some fragments of the hand-made pottery walls, bronze arrowhead and bronze pin of Early Iron Age, and some Cherniavivska pottery fragments of the late Roman times.