Две железные фибулы хазарского времени из Юго-Западного Крыма
Two iron fibulae Khazar time of Southwest Crimea

Summary/Abstract: The author in Bakhchisaray district were found two well-preserved iron objects: two-term fibula to curl at the end of the receiver and the so-called fibula steels with crocodile-spring device. Both products are classified as accidental finds and picked up at a distance of about 8 km apart in the border zone with steppe plain foothills. In this area, between the Alma and Kacha, there are two major series of the Khazar fortress functioned period - Kiz-Kermen and Chufut-Kale. Found in their district iron objects: two-part brooch with curl and fibula on the leg-steels, obviously, have got into the territory of South-Western Crimea as a result of inter-ethnic contacts, according to the analogy of the northeastern Black Sea and the Don region, we can confidently date the lifetime Saltovo- Mayatsky culture (probably the IX c.)

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