In the summer of 2005 Volyn’s archeological expedition continued investigation at the multilayered settlement at the Hrinnyky’s reservoir, in sector XXII. The area of the excavation was 540 m2.There were found 24 features: 1 of the Lendel culture, 3 of the Lezhnyts’ka group of the Early Iron Age, 10 of the Zubryts’ka culture, 3 of the Wielbark culture, 2 of the Praga-Korchak culture, 4 of the Luka-Rajkovets’ka culture, 1 of the Kiev Rus period.
Building 95 of the Early Iron Age was a rectangular grubenhaus, 3,1 × 2,48 in size and 0,6 m deep and oriented to the north – east.. There was a basement-pit 0, 22 mdeep below the west wall of the building, and a few postholes in the floor.Among the finds was bronze pin, datingdate to the 5th cent. BC
At a distance 4 m from the building were houses 58 and 61.
To the settlement of the Zubryts’ka culture belonged 10 features (2 rooms, 8domesticpits).
The richest was a layer of the Wielbark culture. Building 90 seems to have been a shrine.. It was an oval s dugout, 3,2 × 4,8 in size and 0,8 – 1,5 m deep. Its long walls wereoriented east-west. The ground was heavily trampled, and 2, 5 cm in deep over a clay base. There was a semi-circular niche in the middle of the north wall, 0,8× 1,5 in size, and 9 postholes along the walls. This confirms that the building had a wooden framework. There was a lot of hand-made and wheel-made pottery. Among the sherds were a fragment of Roman glass, a fragment of terra sigillata, a fragment of an amphora, clay spindle whorls and a Roman coin, as well as a denarius of the limesfalsa type. Near the niche was found a carved head of the god Serapis. The niche, probably, was the altar of Serapis. The building can be dated to the first part of the 3rd cent. AD Among the other things in the occupation layer were a silver denarius of Marcus Aurelius, aniron fibula, a few iron knives, iron spring scissors, clay spindle whorls.
The earliest settlement was of the Praga-Korchak culture. There were two sunken-flloored buildings (number 91 and 96). Building 91 was square, 2,7×2,8 m in size and 0,8 m deep. It had a clay hearth at the north-east corner. In the niche at the south wall was a dome-shaped oven, measuring 1.4 × 1.2m, and .60m high. . There were the postholes in the corners of the building, showing that it had a wooden frame. Building96 was rectangular , 2, 2 × 2,7 in size, and 0,7 m. deep. It hadan interesting heating device.In the north-west corner instead of a hearth were two pits 04, m in diameter and 0, 6 mdeep. The top parts of these pits were burned, while their bottoms were flat. Probably, in these pits were pots in which wood was burned. By the pottery these features can be dated to the 6th–7th cent. AD.
A lot of the objects belong to the Raykovets’ka culture (8th–9th cent. AD) and to the Kiev Rus period (10th –11th cent. AD).The buildings of the 8th–9th cent. AD were large (not less than 18 m2). All buildings were oriented to the north.. Hearths were always at the east or north-east corner. There were fish hooks, clay spindle whorls, iron knives, and bone polishers in the fills of the features.