New finds of encolpion of the second half of the 13th-15th centuries in Veliky Novgorod

The paper reports on the studies of the collection of reliquary crosses datingfrom the second half of the 13th-15th centuries discovered by the Novgorod archaeologicalexpedition of the Institute of Archaeology, RAS, in 2008-2017. The collection includesfive reliquaries. The paper provides information on the location of these finds as wellas morphological and iconographic characteristics and the chemical compositionof metal.