A remarkable site dated of the I-IV cent. mill. A. D. has been unearthed at the adjucent suburb of Mtskheta, Karsniskhevi. The site includes potters’ settlement, winecellars and a cemetry. The settlement is arranged at the top of a knoll and on the submountaine terraces. It consists of three layers. Some of the houses, found there, are with sloping roofs and others with flat ones. Near the settlement, there appeared potters’ contemporaneous workshops with two types of furneces in them – one is a two-storey burning kiln and the other is a round one with two selections inside. Wine-cellars and a cemetery, unveiled near the settlement, are of the same age. All the sited, just mentioned, were as if an economic mainspring for Armaztsikhe, Mtskheta citadel when the latter was the capital of Cartli (Iberia) during the beginning centuries of the Ist mill. A. D.
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