Styli and book clasps from excavations at the Great Shepetovka Settlement

During excavations of the Od-Russian fortified settlement near the village of Gorodishche of the Shepe- tovka District of Khmelnitsk Oblast (Ukraine), a large collection of writing tools (styli) (20/24 items) was obtained, as well as parts of book clasps (4 items). Analysis of the find has shown that the majority of the styli found at the site belong to the commonly distributed general Russian types 3, 6, 7, and 11 (after the typology by A. F. Medvedev and B. B. Ovchinnikova) used during a wide range of the 11th–13th century. One stylus belongs to type 13 identified by special- ists as a south-western type; two styli are a simplified variant of type 8. The plan of the findspots suggests a connection of the considerable part of the finds with the summit of the Gorodishche hill, i. e. the zone of concentration of fragments of bells and hoards of silver ornaments, including the hoard containing pending lead seals

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