9th-10th century AD. A group of three necklace pendants of spheroid shape, the body worked with granulation all around, a flattened boss at the bottom and a ring at the top for suspension. See similar pendants in Korzukhina G.F., Russkiye kladi IX - XIII vv., Moscow, 1954, pl.VIII, item 6, pl.XXVII no.17; Mi?ta-Jakubowska, E., Czech B?o?ska, R., Duczko, W., Gójska, A., M., Kalbarczyk, P., ?abi?ski, G., Trela, K., 'Archaeometric studies on early medieval silver jewellery from Central and Eastern Europe' in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 11, 2019, pp. 6705–6723, figs.3, no.1. 11.5 grams total, 25-26mm (1"). From a central London collection; previously in a European collection formed 1979-1989. These artefacts belong to the West-Slavic or Post-Moravian group and were widely diffused among the population of the Great Moravian and Kiev Empires. Silver ornaments from the early medieval hoard from Rajsków (Poland) show similar specimens, diffused first among the Eastern Slavs and then among the mixed Viking-Slav inhabitants of the Rus. [3, No Reserve]