Metalware and pottery from the Hmelevka I settlement

The paper deals with the objects of armament, horse equipment and daily life from the Hmelevka I settlement of the second half of 13th - 14th cc. The settlement is located in the Saratov Volga region and was studied by expedition of Kazan University headed by L.F. Nedashkovsky in 1995-2002. The armament is represented by fragments of axes, arrowheads and ceramic bomb; the horse equipment - by the iron framework of supporting buckle, ring from bridle, horseshoe and debacle thorns. Rivets, fragments of copper and bronze vessels, sheets, cast-iron cauldrons, iron plough blade, scythe, knives and their couplings, locks and keys make the daily life objects analyzed in the paper. We provide the data on the mass material, including ceramics (spindle-whorls, unglazed Golden Horde, Old Russian, Mordvin pottery, fragments of Trebizond amphorae, stamped vessels and fragments of glazed red-clay and kashi vessels). The broad comparative background of materials of synchronous monuments of Eastern Europe and Asia is used as a basis for studying the morphological features of metalware and pottery and to make typology...