Melitopol kurgan

[4] It was excavated first by employees of the Melitopol Museum of Local History, then by an expedition of the Institute of Archeology of the Academy of Sciences of the Ukrainian SSR, led by O.I.

It was accompanied by the burial of a maid in which bronzes were found, including gold-plated earrings, a necklace of glass beads, iron bracelets, the remains of a spindle and a black lacquer vessel.

[5] The "landlady" — an elderly woman — had a headdress, clothes and shoes richly decorated with gold plaques, strings and beads.

Other finds included a portupeia necklace decorated with 50 gold plates, as well as a repoussé gold-coated gorytos with scenes from the myth of Achilles and 70 arrowheads.

According to scientists' calculations, the total weight of the gold objects found during the excavations of the Melitopol barrow amounted to 2 kg (4.4 lb).