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LOCATION: On the northern bank of Delger Murun, 16 km west of Murun town in Khovsgol province.
Uushgiin Uvur is the Bronze age site contains 14 upright carved stones with heights of 1 to 4 meters, 20-50 centimeter thick, and 30-100 centimeter wide. Uushgiin Uvur deer stones are considered the best kept and clearest carved ones.
Some 600 deer stones have been found in Central Asia, 500 of them found in the territory of Mongolia. Deer stones are the first monuments of humans; the earliest of them belong to the 13th to the 9th century BC, while most of them date to The Bronze Age. On restored, standing stones, pictures including the sun, the moon, belts, knives, and jumping deer were carved fantastically. The deers are stylized with bird beak, some of them gouged with spiraling horns, depicted as flying between the earth and heaven. Deer stones were not grave markers except for the later Bronze Age ones, but clan totems and worship sites. However, Uushgiin Uvur deer stones mark tombs.
Besides the deer stones, the valley is dotted with some 1400 tombs, and offering site Khirgesuurs, will be seen here and there.
Among the 14 deer stones, one stone topped with women's head is special as there are only a handful of such deer stones in Mongolia.
An admission fee is required when visiting the Uusgiin Uvur site.
