Shaghot Settlement Site :: ARMENIAN HISTORICAL MONUMENTS

Shaghot Settlement Site

NKR / Shushi / Karkar

Location

From the east, the city might have been defended by an old inhabited place (geographical coordinates: N 39°46’54.8,” E 46°45’56.5”; 1,120 metres above sea level) the site of which can be discerned in the village site of Shaghot located in a flat meadow extending on one of the elevations on the right bank of the river Karkar. The terrain where it is situated is quite fit for stationing a vanguard military unit (it is within 2,150 metres of the Citadel of Karkar in a straight line, azimuth: 80°) as there is a natural spring here, and its elevated position makes it possible to have a full view of the plateau where the city of Karkar lies.

Sargissian Gagik & Hakobian Alexan, The Newly-Unearthed City Site of Karkar in Artsakh, in: "Vardzk", 2011, N 4, pp. 51-52.

Description

The ruins of the church of this village site retain a cross-stone of ornamental patterns typical of the 12th to the 13th centuries, but it may also have an earlier cultural stratum.