Interpretation of hoards of silver neck rings in Eastern Europe
In the end of the 19th century, several hoards of silver neck rings were fortuitously found in the North-West of the forest zone of Eastern Europe. In this paper, it is shown that they are close in their composition to buried treasures from the Eastern Baltic Sea region, dating from the third quarter of the 1st millennium AD. These objects are no simple ornaments but in fact ingots of silver to which the shape of neck hoops was rendered.