The archeological expedition of Volyn continued investigation at the settlement of Hrinnyky at Shankiv Yar. The area of the excavation was 26 × 6 m. It continued area XXI. There were found a house (building 110) of the Early Iron Age, two building of the Wielbark culture and an open hearth of the Kyiv Rus period. There was a smoke-house and two basement pits in the household complex of the Early Iron Age.Building 110 was roughly round and was oriented north – south, measuring 6,4 × 3,6, and sunken 0, 25 m. There was clay bench, 2,1 × 2,2 m in size, in north part of the building.It was probably a place for sleeping. There was a big pit, 2, 2 × 3 m in size and 1, 72 m deep in the center of the building. A pit with a hearth at the bottom was the base of the smokehouse, which was designed to dry foods like fish, ,hung on wooden sticks above the fire. This is confirmed by fishing tools found under the south wall of the building. Among them were a bone harpoon and a grip. There were also found a bronze hairpin, three spindle whorls and a bone needle. The complex of the pottery was typical of the local population (mixed Cherepino-Lagodivs’kyy and Mogyl’janskyy culture complexes). There were two silos 1 m to the east of the building. They were round, 1, 6 m in diameter and 0,4 – 0,5 m depth. In the fills were animal bones, sherds of handmade pottery and one bone awl.
Building 109 of the Wielbark culture had an almost square shape with rounded corners. It was oriented north-south. The cut was 0, 85 m deep. There were five postholes in the floor,situated in the middle of the short walls and at the corners of the building. A pillar in the center of the floor was an important supportfor the roof The building was 0, 4 m in diameter and 0,35 min depth. Onemore pillar, which stood in themiddle of the western short wall, was a part of the construction of the entrance. There were deposits of ash, charcoal, and burned clay in the center of the building, suggesting a fireplace. There were bones of animals, sherds, broken tools in the fillof the building. Among the hand–made pottery forms of were kumpfs, large pots, S-profile bowls and cups. Among the wheel–made pottery were gray – polished bowls. The small finds included five bone polishers, two cases for needles, a few bone studs, an amulet of boar tusk, a few spindle whorls, ceramic game counters,the bronze clasp of a knife, an iron fish hook, the iron binding of a buckle, two iron knives, two iron fibulas and two fibulasprings. This building can be dated to the middle of the 3rd century by finds and pottery.