THE SECOND PARKHOMIVKA HOARD OF THE EARLY MIDDLE AGE: PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF THE RESEARCH

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https://doi.org/10.37445/adiu.2022.03.16

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Parkhomivka, hoards of Martynivka circle, Early Middle Ages, Penkivka, Kolochyn cultures, ornaments, weapons, household and handicraft items.

Abstract

This paper considers the findings from the Second Parkhomivka Hoard, which belongs to the assembla­ges of the Martynivka circle. These hoards are loca­ted in the Middle Dnieper and the Dnieper Left Bank (fig. 1). A significant number of such finds have been discovered in the modern Sumy region in recent times (fig. 2). Some of these hoards were given to the storages of the museums of Sumy region.

Currently we have the information about two hoards found in one micro-region, near the former Parkho­mivka village (fig. 3; 4: A). The second hoard and part of the first one were given to the Trostyanets Museum and Exhibition Center.

The first hoard, found in 2013, included details of women’s and men’s clothing. The second one, found in the spring of 2018, contained two spearheads, the sickle, adze-hoe, the torque, three iron buckles, two lead-tin cones (lost), two bronze belt tips, and temple rings (?).

The first surveys of the hoard sites were conducted in the fall of 2018. The prospect holes were made at the sites of the finds and in 2020 the additional holes near them were dug. In 2018, further along the forested bottom of the ravine, several iron objects which can be da­ted to the 1st—2nd millennium BC were discovered, among them the adze-hoe, loop from a bucket / cauldron, and chisel. All finds from the surveys of 2018 and 2020 are stored in the Sumy Regional Museum of Local Lore.

Finds from the Second Parkhomivka Hoard accor­ding to the concentration of finds allow two groups to be distinguished. Together in one hole lay the torque, spearhead, large iron buckle (fig. 13; 14). We conditionally include these things in the first group. Other finds were found at the same time within a radius of 2 m from the place of concentration of the first group (fig. 15; 16). These are two other iron buckles, two belt tips, temple rings, fragments of bracelets, the adze-hoe and a sickle. We classified them in the second group. In general, all finds are divided into clothing ornaments, weapons and agricultural equipment.

It is difficult to clearly determine the cultural affiliation of the hoard — Penkivka or Kolochyn — because in this micro-region on the Early Medieval Slavic sites no archeological excavations have been carried out. This is the matter of subsequent archaeological research.

Second Parkhomivka Hoard was apparently disco­vered outside the archeological sites of the third quarter of the 1st millennium BC. The number of assemblages of this circle were discovered in similar to­pographic conditions. Therefore, it is possible that this hoard confirms the «household» version of the «storage» of hoards proposed by one of the authors (Derevyanko, Volodarets-Urbanovich 2017, p. 46).

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2022-05-03

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Bilynska L. І. ., Volodarets-Urbanovіch Y. V. ., Panikarskyi, A. V. ., & Gorbanenko, S. A. . (2022). THE SECOND PARKHOMIVKA HOARD OF THE EARLY MIDDLE AGE: PRELIMINARY RESULTS OF THE RESEARCH. Archaeology and Early History of Ukraine, 44(3(44), 263–281. https://doi.org/10.37445/adiu.2022.03.16