Circa 800 – 1000 BC. A collection of bronze horse harness attachments owned by a cavalier. The set includes various buckles, appliques with decorative motifs, thirteen circular appliques which would likely have formulated a decorative harness on the neck of the horse, and a selection of appliques for attachment to the horse. Fine condition. The Koban culture was a late Bronze Age and Iron Age culture in Northern and Central Caucasus. It is preceded by the Colchian culture of the Western Caucasus and the Kharachoi culture further east. Koban culture is named after the village of Koban, in Northern Ossetia, where in 1869 battle-axes, daggers, decorative items and other objects were discovered in a kurgan. Later, further sides were uncovered finding an array of beautiful artefacts opening our understanding of the culture. Size: L:Set of 23; 50-100mm / W:50-130mm ; 1.8kg. Provenance: Collection of Mr. C. Chase formed in the 1920s -1940s.