I want to tell a story about my first Slavic amulet-pendant, which dates back to the 11th – 13th centuries.
It happened last year in early spring. One warm sunny day we decided to go look for a place where the ramparts of an ancient Russian fortification were still preserved.
I think there is no need to emphasize the fact that people come to these ancient earthen ramparts with metal detectors not only from all over the area, but from the entire region. So it’s very rare to find anything intact made of non-ferrous metal here. But we, not counting heavily on ancient bronze, dug for black signals. After all, here you come across tips, knives, and rarely spear attachments. So we are unlikely to return empty-handed.
And so we walk together through the plowed fields and dig for black ringing signals. From time to time you come across a bronze shmurdyachka, of which there used to be a lot here.
My metal detector is a Garrett ACE 350 with a standard coil. With this device, as a rule, I lift no worse than a comrade with a Minelab X-Terra 305 and a Nel Tornado coil.
After digging a little for tips and a few knives, we decide to move to the next field. And since our path lies through what has already been sown, we walk along its edge. And now I catch a clear color signal… It’s not deep at all, it looks like it was turned out by the plow, I raise the spoon. I remove the soil and can’t believe my eyes – a WHOLE spoon is an amulet. Apparently, this is my find and it was only waiting for me, because there are so many people here and with instruments better (more expensive) than mine, but it was my Aska who took this artifact.
This pendant spoon was used in Kievan Rus as an amulet and it symbolized satiety and prosperity in the house. Finding one like this in one piece is very rare. But I was lucky to pick up such an artifact intact and in good condition, and at the same time this spoon became my first find of the KR amulet.
Sent by digger Andrey.
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