HORSE FRONTLET PLATES FROM HORSE FRONTLETS FROM NOVOLABINSKY GRAVE 71 AND KURGANS NEAR THE VILLAGE OF GLINOE AS AN INDICATOR OF CONTACTS BETWEEN THE LOWER DNIESTR REGION AND THE KUBAN REGION
Journal: Archaeology and Early History of Ukraine
Year: 2020

This publication presents an assemblage from a horse burial excavated in 2011 in the cemetery of the 4th Novolabinsky settlement in the Kuban region. Six horses placed in a pit, were accompanied by several sets of riding harness. It included one bit with straight check-pieces, C-shaped check-pieces, bridle decorations, breastgirth ornaments and three frontlets, each with a hook, two of them have zoomorphic ends. The closest parallels to the horse frontlets from the Bolshoi Kurgan of Vasyurinskay