Bazuband Vambrace Excavated at the Citadel of Mangup
Journal: Materials in Archaeology History and Ethnography of Tauria
Year: 2024

This research addresses the double-leaf vambrace, a unique find for the Crimea. This artefact was discovered within the cultural layer dating from the late-fourteenth and the first quarter of the fifteenth centuries and deposited on the street, located to the west of the octagonal church, in the citadel of Mangup. The mapping of the finds of double-leaf vambraces in Eastern Europe allowed the one to identify three groups of parallels to the artefact in question: the vambraces from Rus’ian settle