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   To     SE   is   Lchkadzor    (formerly Chalagegh) with 3 km NE on Danieli Tala hill an unexcavated cyclopean fort.

   Ayrum,   where   the  road  joins  the main Vanadzor-Tbilisi highway. S of Ayrum on the right bank of the Debed on the hill of the candy factory is an Early Bronze Age Shahlama fortress. Another Shahlama Bronze Age site is on the Debed at the intersection where the    roads    diverge    to    Tbilisi    and

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Alaverdi.  Ayrum also had an Early Iron Age site 3 km SW of the train station, where a group of 10-8th c. BC bronze figurines were found in 1962.