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In the spring of 2015, a new cremation cemetery was discovered. The site is located on the Cape Ristiniemi (North-Western shore of the Ladoga Lake, Republic of Karelia). Three coins with signs of secondary use were found among jewelry and weapons dating from the 11th century. They are a miliaresion of Emperors Basil II and Constantine VIII (976—1025), a penny of Knut the Great (976—1029) and a previously unknown type of Kufic dirham. The last coin dates to the time of revolt against the Abbasid (?), during the reign of Caliph al-Hadi, minted by Medina mint (?) in 16 (?)9 Hijri year with the name of Ali bin Ja’far. The features of the arrangement of the lugs and holes in the coins allowed to reconstruct their positions in funerary headdress and assume a possibility for presence of a multi-row necklace in it.

Keywords: North-Western lake Ladoga area, 11th century, burials, coins, secondary use, necklace.

Information about authors:

Stanislav Belskiy (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Candidate of Historical Sciences. Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Universitetskaya Emb., 3, Saint Petersburg, 199034, Russian Federation; University of Turku, Faculty of Humanities. Henrikinkatu St., 2, Turku, FI-20014, Finland
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Konstantin Gorlov (Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation). Institute for History of Material Culture, Russian Academy of Sciences. Dvortsovaya Emb., 18, Saint Petersburg, 191186, Russian Federation
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Evgenii Lemberg (Odessa, Ukraine). Oriental Numismatic Society. British Museum, Great Russell Street, London WC1B 3DG, United Kingdom
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