Ardanovo hill-fort

Among the Hallstattian monuments of the Upper Tisza there are hill-forts. They were discovered in the late 19th century, but received a reliable classification and chronological identification only 50 years later. Most hill-forts served as refuge and are characterized by a scanty cultural layer. The hill-fort of Ardanovo (Boguslav) in the Irshava district of Zakarpattia region was investigated in 1958 and 1962 by G.I. Smirnova. The archaeological researches were resumed by the team of archaeologists from the Uzhgorod University in 2011. As a result there were discovered many archaeological evidences which confirmed that the Ardanovo hill-fort can be attributed to the period of the 10th - 8th centuries B.C.