Crystal multifaceted bead from the settlement of Kartamyshevo-3 and contacts between the Middle Dnieper region and the Northern Black Sea littoral in the 6th–7th century
Journal: Archaeological News
Year: 2020

The article deals with the discovery of a great multifaceted crystal bead in the settlement of the Kolochin culture of Kartamyshovo-3 in Upper Psel (Oboyansk district, Kursk region). Findings of such beads are given in the Northern Black Sea region, in the Caucasus, in Central and Western Europe. Thanks to these parallels, the chronology of crystal faceted beads is established within the framework of the end of the III / IV — the second half of the VII century. These beads, of Mediterranean or S