Detail of a helmet from the excavations in Sarkel - Belaya Vezha
This article concerns a detail of the helmet found in 1949 during Mikhail I. Artamonov's excavations at the Left-Bank Tsimlyanskoye townsite equated with the fortress of Sarkel or Belaya Vezha. The fnd under consideration is a cast mount once fxed on a lateral plate of a helmet of a sphero-conical shape. Helmets of this type with a gilt surface were widespread at the turn from the 1st to the 2nd millennium in Eastern and Central Europe. The Sarkel mount is broadly datable to the tenth century AD.