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In 2014, in the Amur region near the Amur River on the site Ozero Dolgoe two submarine pits were excavated. On the present-day surface submarine pit № 16 was rectangular in shape with rounded corners (4,2×5 m), steep sides and a depth of 46 - 52 cm. The submarine pit № 17 is square shaped with rounded corners (4,6×4,8 m), with steep slope, depth 40-51 cm. The stratigraphic and planigraphic observations, structure of the burnt wooden frames at the bottom of deep pits № 16 and № 17, and the discovered artifacts allowed to suggest that these are funerary complexes of Mohe of Troitskaya group dated from the VIII century. However, AMS 14C analysis of coal samples from the pit № 17 allowed to obtain the new dates - 1760±40 years ago (MTS-17572), cal. ±1δ 230-340 BC, ±2δ 139-385 BC, or the first half of the III-IV century. Theses dates are different from the previously proposed ones, therefore the discrepancy of 400-500 years in dating requires additional carbon dating of samples, and additional study of similar depressions (there are 41 of them left on the site). Findings from a filling of a deep funnel pit № 17 include 95 kg of glandular wreckage of kritsa of various sizes (total weight 1.55 kg), 89 pieces of slag (weight 0.4 kg); 200 fragments of pottery vessels from at least three groups of Mohe of Troitskaya group; a piece of iron armor plates and possibly fragment of an iron boiler; 17 riverine pebbles, 7 pebbles splintered, 2 stone, and 7 stone chippings and flakes, about 240 burnt animal bones. They have developed into a complex of objects associated with the smelting of small portions of iron in ceramic vessels-furnaces. Similar vessels for smelting of iron and bronze were found at the of Mohe settlement of Aspen Lake. The presence of industrial waste in a depression on the surface of the terrace suggests that somewhere near to metal smelting there was a special area or workshop, which was periodically cleaned and freed from the iron manufacturing waste. Remains of iron production belong to Mohe of Troitskaya group, and dated IX-X centuries.