Context (Related Documents)
Handwritten note with objects reads: 'Ridgeway Bequest. 27.1190. c. AD 1.'
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Author: Clare McKenna

Context (Related Documents)
Typed note from Ridgeway reading: 'The contents of this box are from graves near Koban in the Caucasus and were given to me by Mr John Baddeley the historian of the Russian conquest of the Caucasus, etc. etc'. And in pencil 'See P.S. Urarova Mat. for Arch, A Caucatas VIII.'
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Author: Clare McKenna

Context (Found together / assemblage)
Part of a group of objects from graves.
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Author: Clare McKenna

Description (Physical description)
Group of objects from graves: I: Box of bronze mounts, balls, clips and rings (plain).

Event Date
Author: Clare McKenna

Context (References)
Uvarova, P.S. (1900). 'The Cemeteries of North Caucasus'. Materials for Caucasian Archaeology, Vol. 8. Moscow.
Event Date 1900
Author: Clare McKenna

Context (Related Documents)
A letter (dated 27/11/1903) from John Baddeley to William Ridgeway says: 'I am now sending a small box containing some beads, iron axeheads and a glass bracelet from Saniba, an Ossetine village a few miles south of Koban. Various dates have been assigned for the grave-find, some BC, some AD. Anyway it is much later than the old Koban.'

Event Date 27/11/1903
Author: Clare McKenna

Description (Physical description)
I consists of twenty objects.
Event Date 27/9/2000
Author: Clare McKenna

Description (Physical description)
Small rod of copper alloy. Consists of a cylindrical tube with rounded knobs on either end; with the centre of the cylinder collared on two sides.
Event Date 9/4/2024
Author: Clare McKenna