Medieval ring brooches

[sister_raphael]

I was very excited to be contacted yesterday by an archaeologist, Ihor Hotun (go check him out, you won't be sorry) who worked on an excavation near Kyiv and shared the pdf of the findings with me.

Unfortunately, it was a very long pdf written in (I'm pretty sure) Ukrainian, so I wasn't able to read it. The images in the report were absolutely wonderful and I enjoyed them very much. In particular, he was writing about a ring brooch with glass stones which had been found, and he was asking to use photos of some of my brooches from my Gilbert Collection in a report of comparative findings.

Naturally, I am delighted that I can assist archaeology in some small way.