ИЗДЕЛИЯ ИЗ МЕТАЛЛА С ХМЕЛЁВСКОГО I СЕЛИЩА
METAL WARES FROM HMELEVSKOE I SETTLEMENT

Summary/Abstract: The objects of arms, horse equipment, daily life, trade, and cult from Hmelevskoe I settlement of the second half of the 13th – 14th centuries situated in Saratov Volga region and studied by the expedition organized in 1995–2002 by the Kazan University under the supervision of L.F. Nedashkovsky are considered in the paper. The armament is represented by the fragments of axes, arrowheads, as well as by a fragment of ceramic bomb. The horse equipment studied involves the iron framework of supporting buckle, ring from bridle, horseshoe, and debacle thorns. The clothes details are bead and little bells. Rivets and fragments of copper vessels, cast bronze vessels, fragments of copper sheets, cast-iron cauldrons, iron plough blade, scythe, locks, keys, nails, knives and their couplings, thimbles, facing of whetstone, ring, tube, binding, and disk are the daily life objects analyzed in the paper. The articles of trade and cult objects are represented by the holder of scale-beam and eyelet of a cross-enkolpion, respectively. The materials from Hmelevskoe I settlement, remains of the medieval town, are different from the materials of the same categories found at the Uvek site, the city situated nearby. There were no registered finds of spear-heads, mace-heads, kisten’s, daggers, battle knives, stirrups, silver vessels, metallic buttons, details of bronze lamps, scale cups, weights, and casting moulds at Hmelevskoe I settlement.

• Details
• Contents