Fig. 4. The plan of Dwelling No. 3, a clay house excavated at Volodymyrivka. Key to plan : A cross-wall B ovens C sleeping place D cross-shaped platforms pottery sherds aö 0 millstones ^ clay figurines flint tools Q © votive vessels clay spindle whorl litter of animal bones Q ^ mattocks fragments of clay house model Fig. 5. (Below) General view, looking southward, of Dwelling No. 3 after it was cleared. One of the two cross-shaped platforms is visible in the foreground. excavation of a Trypillian settlement near the village of Volodymyrivka, Uman District, took place in 1940. In 1928, 1936 and 1939 three dwellings had been uncovered, and they produced typical Trypillian pottery (Figure 2). Volodymyrivka is the most interesting Trypillian settlement of the South Buh Basin. Covering an area nine hundred by eight hundred meters, it is the largest Trypillian settlement known at present. Here more than two hundred dwellings were found arranged in a definite system, forming several concentric circles or ovals (Figure Autumn 1953 169