CLAY PLATES WITH STYLIZED ORNITHOMORPHIC IMAGES FROM THE VI SECTION OF THE GORBUNOVSKY PEAT BOG* The article presents the technical and morphological characteristics of clay plates with stylized ornithomorphic images found in the VI Section of the Gorbunovsky peat bog in 1926 and 2009. Suggestions are made about the functional purpose and dating of the products. Decorative and morphological characteristics of clay plates find analogies in the materials of the Suzgun culture and the late Cherkaskul culture, dated respectively not earlier than the XIII and XIII-XII centuries BC. Probably, the existence of these objects can be tentatively attributed to this time. Comparison with the Suzgun cult monuments and Andronovo funerary sites does not exclude the interpretation of the complex associated with plates as sacrificial or memorial. Keywords: Trans-Urals, VI section of the Gorbunovsky peat bog, clay plates with stylized ornithomorphic images, archaeological context, technical and morphological specifics, Bronze Age. Archaeological context Fragments of clay plates were found in the sixth Section of the Gorbunovsky peat bog in 1926 in the pit A of D. N. Eding [1927] and in 2009 in the excavation No. 60 of N. M. Chairkina. They were not found on the rest of the studied area (it is not less than 1500 m2), as well as on other peat and coastal monuments of the Trans-Urals, with the possible exception of the Kalmatsky Brod settlement. Special articles are devoted to the conditions of detection and characterization of the collections of these items stored in the State Historical Museum (GIM)**, the Nizhny Tagil Museum-Reserve (NTMZ), and the Institute of History and Archeology of the Ural Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (IIA), as well as to the analysis of clay plates without stylized ornithomorphic images [Chairkina, 2012, 2013]. questions are not considered in detail. In pit A with an area of 18 m 2, the cultural layer in which the plate fragments were found was lo ... Read more