Accession No
1927.1190 I.11
Description
Small ring loop of copper alloy for suspending its missing pendant. Rounded loop with drop-shaped aperture; with circular plate below, the top of missing pendant.
Place
Europe; Eastern Europe; Russia; Caucasus; North Ossetia; Koban; Saniba
Period
Migration Period
Source
Ridgeway, William (Professor; Sir) [collector and bequeather]; Baddeley, John [collector]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1927.1190 I.11
Cultural Affliation
Material
Metal; Copper Alloy; ?Bronze
Local Term
Measurements
8mm
Events
Context (Related Documents)
Handwritten note with objects reads: 'Ridgeway Bequest. 27.1190. c. AD 1.'
Event Date
Author: Clare McKenna
Context (Found together / assemblage)
Part of a group of objects from graves.
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)
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.'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn
Description (Physical description)
Group of objects from graves: I: Box of bronze mounts, balls, clips and rings (plain).
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn
Context (References)
Uvarova, P.S. (1900). 'The Cemeteries of North Caucasus'. Materials for Caucasian Archaeology, Vol. 8. Moscow.
Event Date 1900
Author: Imogen Gunn
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: Imogen Gunn
Description (Physical description)
I consists of twenty objects.
Event Date 27/9/2000
Author: Clare McKenna
Description (Physical description)
Small ring loop of copper alloy for suspending its missing pendant. Rounded loop with drop-shaped aperture; with circular plate below, the top of missing pendant.
Event Date 9/4/2024
Author: Clare McKenna
FM:311889
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