Accesorii din metal descoperite în Dobrogea, provenite dintr-o colecție particulară

Abstract

Metal Accesories Found in Dobrudja from a Private Collection

In this article are depicted a few metal accessories found in Dobrudja, coming from a private collection. It is about five harness or clothing ornamental pieces, three of them being processed by a composition of elements which contains a higher percentage of bronze and a little less one of silver (a heart form bracket and two small buckles); the other two ones made of lead (two belt bottoms). The origin and chronological data of these types of ornaments have aroused numerous debates, so that in the mentioned text above we presented only similar discoveries from Central, East and South-Eastern Europe. For certain, these ornamented pieces were used to adorn the ensemble of leather straps (belts) of nomad horsemen harness or clothing which were coming in successive waves from the European-Asian steppes in the 9th-13th centuries.