Historical Geography Journal ISSN 2782-6511 (Print) | ISSN 3034-5286 (Online)

Andrew V. Deduk 
Candidate of Historical Sciences, Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Russia, Moscow), State Museum-Reserve «Kulikovo Field» (Russia, Tula).
E-mail: deduk@list.ru
ORCID: 0000-0002-9458-3934

Alexandr M. Kolokolov
Scientific Researcher, State Museum-reserve «Kulikovo field»
Tula, Russia
E-mail: kolokolofff.sasha@yandex.ru
ORCID: 0000-0002-6099-6319

Ivan S. Prostyakov
Scientific Researcher, State Museum-reserve «Kulikovo field»
Tula, Russia
E-mail: retar1988@mail.ru
ORCID: 0009-0000-0447-7365

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UDC 902.2(470.312)
DOI: 10.58529/2782-6511-2025-4-1-50-63

ABSTRACT. The article describes the physical and geographical location of the hillfort near the village of Radugovishche (Dubensky district of theTula region). A brief history of the study of the site from the mid-19th century until today is presented. It has an area of about 6 hectares and is the largest hillfort in the Tula region. The site has no clear dating. Researchers expressed a version about its belonging to the objects of the Zasetschnaya cherta of the 16th–17th centuries. In the literature, it was even suggested that the monument could be the center of the Volkonsky principality of the 14th–15th centuries. Airborne laser scanning (LiDAR) of the territory of the site provided reliable data on its configuration, size and fortification system. In 2022, a detachment of the Tula archaeological expedition of the Kulikovo Field State Museum-Reserve monitored the current state of the settlement near the village of Radugovishche, and also carried out a range of archaeological work. As a result of subsequent fieldwork on the site and damaged sections of the ramparts it was established that the hillfort was built no later than the 3rd quarter of the 1st millennium AD. This dating does not contradict written and cartographic sources. The Radugovishche settlement was located in the 16th–17th centuries on privately owned land, and not on the territory of the Zasechnaya Cherta.

KEYWORDS: Archaeology, Upper Oka, hillfort, Radugovishche, zaseka

For citation: Deduk A. V., Kolokolov A. M., Prostyakov I. S. [Hillfort near the Village of Radugovishhe]. Istoriko-geograficheskiy zhurnal [Historical Geography Journal], 2025, vol. 4, no. 1, pp. 50–63. DOI: 10.58529/2782-6511-2025-4-1-50-63 (In Russian).

Received 4 October 2024
Accepted 17 January 2025

© 2025 The Authors

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