In an ancient Greek village on the Azov’s shore: Granary-pit (4th c. BC)
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Granary-pit (5 m. deep), found near the wine-making installations of a 4th-c. BC farm on the Crimean shore of the Sea of Azov, where there were dozens of small agricultural settlements belonging to Pantikapaion (Ukr. Kerch). The three buildings that make up the complex at the village known today as Generalskoe were protected by a circuit wall. Here the region's grain was collected, to be transported by ship to the Bosporian capital. Barbarian settlements – one stage in the Hellenization of some Scythian and Maiotian groups – were also found near the Greek villages.