Padvarninkų radiniai

ENAt the beginning of the 20th century, various archaeological ornaments from the Padvarninkai (Kelmė district) village, situated near the River Dubysa, reached the Imperial Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg. The inventory book of the Hermitage indicates that these items were bought from F. D. Bordinski. Until now, the finds of Padvarninkai with their illustrations (drawings or photographs) have not yet been published, although some of them were mentioned. The aim of this article is to introduce the finds of Padvarninkai to a broader scientific circulation. Nine bronze (copper alloy) items from the Padvarninkai site are kept in the State Hermitage Museum (collection 979-1-9). These are neck, chest and hand ornaments from the Roman period. Three trumpet-end neck-rings belong to neck ornaments. One of them is broken and straightened, and the other two are intact. The neck-rings of this period, refering to the other archaeological material of Lithuania, are mostly dated to the B2 period, although these were also worn in the В2/ Cl periods. Two brooches and one pin belong to chest ornaments. Both brooches are strongly profiled. One of them belongs to the 72nd type of O. Almgrents grens group IV, and the other belongs to group I of strongly profiled brooches. The chronology of the brooches is the end of the B2-B2/C1 periods. The pin belongs to group I of pins with a spoolshaped head, which dates to the B1-B2 periods.