During excavations in the ancient city of Vologda archaeologists first found a birch-bark letter With legible inscriptions, said Tuesday the head of the Vologda detachment of the North-Russian archaeological expedition of Igor Kukushkin.
"specific Dating of birchbark as long as it is difficult to establish. It is known that she was found in the cultural layer of the XIV-XV centuries ", ? Kukushkin said " Interfax ".



so, Vologda became the thirteenth city in which were found the old Russian birchbark. The vast number of such documents were found in Veliky Novgorod ? 1064, another 45 ? in Staraya Russa, in Torzhok ? 19, in Smolensk ? 16, Pskov, ? eight, in Tver ? five, in Moscow and Zvenigorod in the Ukrainian Galician ? 3, two in Mstislavl Belarus, one ? of Old Ryazan, Nizhny Novgorod and Belarus Vitebsk. Since 1951 birch bark letters found in archaeological expeditions in Novgorod, and later in several other ancient cities. Ogromneishee expedition ? Novgorod ? work every year, but the number of certificates in different seasons varies (from a hundred to zero) depending on which layers are pipetted. Many of the letters found during archaeological monitoring of earthworks (construction, installation of communication), and just discovered unintentionally. Among the random finds, for example, ? certificate No. 463, found by the student of the Novgorod pedagogical Institute in the village of Pankovka in a heap removed From excavation excavated rock would be expected to apply for the beautification of a local Park and a small fragment No. 612, was found by a resident of Novgorod Chelnokova at home in a flower pot when transplanting flowers.

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