Pages: 301-310 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.55086/sp255301310

In 2022, the Leningrad regional expedition of the IHMC RAS, while exploring a former agricultural field near the western outskirts of the village Nova Burya, localized a section of a destroyed burial ground. In the modern Leningrad region, this is the only archaeological site of its kind known today. As a result of the excavations, 370 graves dating back to the 17th and 18th centuries were examined. Small fibulae in the shape of a heart were found among the grave goods. The products are unique to the lands of Votians and Ingrians and typical of the countries of Fennoscandia and Europe. The article offers a typological review, chronology, and cultural use of heart-shaped fibulae.

Keywords: Russia, Ingermanland, Middle Ages, 17th century, burial ground, heart-shaped fibulae, typology, chronology

Information about authors:

Ekaterina Kononovich (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Institute for History of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences. Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0001-9159-7460
Aleksandra Kononovich (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). State Hermitage Museum. Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation
E-mail: [email protected]
ORCID: 0000-0002-5605-4046