9th-10th century AD. A mixed group of bronze Slavic or Eastern Germanic pendants,prising a peltate fitting with an attachment ring, a trilobite openwork fitting with a ribbed fastening ring and three circlets, flat on one side and embossed on the other. See Kulakov, V.I., 'Moons and Pendants of special forms among the Southeastern Baltic Region Antiquities' in Abramzon, M., Journal of Historical, Philological and cultural studies, 25 years-JHPhCS, 1994-2019, October 4(66), Moscow-Magnitogorsk-Novosibirsk, 2019, figs.4-5. 2.62 grams total, 8-18mm (1/4 - 3/4"). Private collection of Mr M. B., Mainz, Germany, 1990s. Property of a London binessman. Representations of the moon were created from the 1st millennium AD onwards, and were widespread in proto-Slavic and Germanic cultures from the Roman Age. Half-moons were ed as details for horse headbands, or amulets. In the mid-1st millennium, 'three-horned' moons were distributed in the South-eastern Baltic region, while in the 5th –6th centuries AD, 'bird' moons are known in the South-eastern Baltic countries, as derivatives of one of the versions of the German pagan symbol. In the 9th–11th centuries, amulets of peltate form weremon in the lands of the Prsians. [5, No Reserve]