Non-ferrous metalworking at the Vyzhegsha fortified settlement

The paper provides results of studying a non-ferrous metal sample drawn during excavations at the Vyzhegsha fortified settlement dating to the end of the 6th-9th centuries. The sample analyzed includes 123 items half of which represent splashes of silver and lowmelting alloys; other items is predominantly non-ferrous metal scrap prepared for remelting. Besides silver and lowmelting alloys, the sample contains tin and tinlead bronze, brass and multi-component alloys. Metalworking at the settlement was conducted on two sites. One shop appears to have specialized in working with silver; the other site was for casting low-melting alloys. As the sample from the Vyzhegsha fortified settlement predominantly contains silver alloys and multi-component alloys, it is similar to the samples made up of materials from the Bolshetarkhansky, the Bolshetigansky, the Kryukovo-Kuzhnovsky and the Podbolotyevsky cemeteries.