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

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

Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn

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

Context (Found together / assemblage)
Part of a group of objects from graves.
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

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)
Two interlocking rings of copper alloy. One larger ring with oval aperture; the frame has oval cross-section; it is open at one end, the ends are flattened off but touching. The other ring is smaller and looped around the larger ring; with oval aperture and circular bezel; the hoop is open, ending at the bezel, the other end is flattened off next to the bezel.
Event Date 10/4/2024
Author: Clare McKenna