The area of the excavation was 324 m2, located at the north – west part of Shankiv Yar. At the investigated area were found a building of the Jastorf culture, a building of the Raykovets’ka culture, a building and a few features of Lithuanian-Polish period and a few constructions of the Eneolithic period. The building 116 of the Jastorf culture was round, and measured 2,5 × 3,6 m and 0, 4 m. deep The building was oriented north-south. There was a hearth at the middle of the north wall, situated in a small pit 0,8 m in diameter andfilled with ash and charcoal. The floor consisted of flat clay blocks. . There were the broken remains of a polished brown bowl near the fireplace. The profile and the ornament of the bowl are typical for pottery of the Jastorf culture. The building can be dated to the middle of La Tène period by the pottery ( 3rd – 2ndcent. BC).
The building of Slavic times was a dugout, square in shape and measured 4, 1 × 4, 4 m and 0, 4 m deep. The building was oriented northeast-southwest. There were the round postholes at the middle of the opposite walls. A clay hearth was found at the east corner of the building, shaped like a horse shoe and measured 1, 2 × 1, 3 m and 0, 3 – 0, 4 m deep. The walls of the building wererounded. There was the hearth, 0, 8 m in diameter, at the north-west of the building, with traces of burned wood. There were wheel and handmade sherds of pottery of the Raykovets’ka culture in the fill of this building, decorated with tie-lines and wavy lines. Above the floor of the building was found a turtle-like silver fibula, a few iron knives and other tools.
New for Shankiv Yar was the discovery of objectsfrom the Lithuanian-Polish period (14th AD– 15thAD century). Possibly this was a house of a some rich person.Beside the main building were found a kitchen and a silo. The building was a semi-dugout, rectangular in shape, measuring 3, 4 × 4, 1 m and 0,5m deep, and oriented northeast-southwest. The walls of house were frame-built. There was a rectangular clay hearth in the east corner, measuring 1, 1 × 1, 0 m in size, and 0, 57 m in height. The walls of the hearth were reinforced by the sherds and burned clay. Typical Lithuanian-Polish pottery was found in the fill of the building. The kitchen, too, was sunken-floored. It was rectangular, measuring 3, 2 × 3, 6 m and 0, 55 m deep. The construction was oriented northeast-southwest. There was a littlewheel-made pottery, typical for 14–15th centuries a few fragments of knives, a fire starter, a needle case, and a few knife blades in the fill of the kitchen.