“Antean Hoard” Site from Koropovy Hutora Hillfort in the Context of Penkovka and Saltov Archaeological Cultures
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7546/DS.2017.10.08Keywords:
the Early Middle Ages, Penkovka archaeological culture, Saltov archaeological culture, the Antes, hoard, interethnic contactsAbstract
The article is dedicated to the analysis of the adornments complex recently found on Koropovy Hutora hillfort (Zmijov region in Kharkov oblast). The hoard includes a variety of silver adornments, and the following ones are distinguished among them: a pair of fibulas, torque, bracelet, temple rings, and bead sets. The complex refers to the second chronological group of “Antean hoards” dated at the middle of the 8 century a.d. It has perfect analogies to a number of complexes: Zajtsevskij, Pastyirskoe ones (1949, 1992 years). The most distinctive items of this hoard group are specific types of bracelets, fibulas, and temple rings. Some kinds of adornments (spiral bronze tubes and some types of beads made of glass paste) represent the contacts of the Slavs of the mentioned period with nomadic and semi-nomadic peoples of the Northern Black Sea region.
