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A ring that walked 1,300 miles
Top Image: Rare Balkan-style silver temple ring excavated at the Olginsky-10 site in Pskov, Russia. Source: Pskov Region Archaeological Center

A ring that walked 1,300 miles

Pskov, Russia. 11th to 13th centuries. Last 1,000 years. Debated. Free

The page does not prove that this ring travelled 1,300 miles.

Debated. Its style belongs mainly to the Balkans, and nobody has shown how it reached Pskov.

The ring was found at the Olginsky-10 site, in Zavalyhe, across the Velikaya River from the old centre of Pskov, in Russia. It dates to the 11th to 13th centuries. It is a silver temple ring, made to hang in the hair or from a headdress, with spiral wire around it. That style is concentrated in the Danube Basin and the Balkan Peninsula. It is the third Balkan-style temple ring from these digs at Pskov.

The page offers trade, a family move, or a traveller as explanations, and it says no single idea is confirmed.

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