From 14 August to 3 September at the State Historical Museum will be exhibited a unique treasure of more than 150 items found in the Bryansk region of black archaeologists and seized by FSB

Source: Press Release SHM

GIM, August 14 - September 3, 2012
Moscow, Red Square, 1, Hall 8

Today at 16:00 will be donating Historical Museum a unique treasure. The treasure is one of the most important revenue in recent years, significantly enriches the archaeological collections relating to the history of the early Slavs. This is a unique set of personal ornaments, harness parts and equipment rider found in kladoiskatelskoy illegal activity on archaeological sites in areas of the left bank of River. Gums in the south of the Bryansk region. He was rescued by the Russian culture for the staff of the Office of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation in the Bryansk region. With the assistance of the Institute of Archaeology RAS treasure transferred to the State Historical Museum. He is one of the largest complexes, transferred to the museums of the Russian Federation after arrived in 2010 in the Kursk State Regional Museum of Archaeology finds from the burial of a noble warrior's V in. Mr. Oe. Fatezhskom in the area of ​​the Kursk region.

Presumably, subjects were part of the treasure hidden in the III. Mr. Oe. and includes more than 150 items found in the settlement relating to an archaeological culture of the end of the Kiev II - V centuries. Mr. Oe. and monuments which are located in Kiev, Chernigov, Sumy, partly Cherkasy, Poltava and Kharkiv oblasts of Ukraine, Gomel and Mogilev regions of Belarus and Kursk, Belgorod and Bryansk regions of Russia.

Summary part of the treasure consists of several complex bronze ornaments, which include: head beaters, the hryvnia, breast chains, made up of ornate links, brooches - large fasteners for clothing, a large number of different kinds of bracelets, several types of suspensions used in various jewelry, glass beads, a necklace made up. Absolutely unique is the finding of the whip handle, consisting of an iron rod with bronze details. For the first time in the composition of such treasures in the Kiev culture found complete sets of parts of three bronze rhytons - ceremonial horns for drinking. The rare antiquities for these findings are also bronze mirror Sarmatian origin, made by Chinese prototypes, and parts of spring scissors.

Much of the cast bronze objects, often with delicate parts, is covered with the decor of the notched enamel glass of deaf, mostly red. They are made in the style of the so-called "Eastern notched enamel" typical dress of the prestigious Eastern European population in the territories of the south-eastern Baltic to the upper reaches of the river. Oki in central Russia.

unique composition represented by the treasure puts it on par with the most valuable treasures of Russian history.

Source : Press Release SHM