New evidence of jewelry production in Staraya Ryazan

The article is devoted to unique finds from the excavations at the Southern Hillfort in Staraya Ryazan carried out in 2020. Traces of jewelry production, including die blocks for embossing jewelry pieces and their details as well as some other craftsman's tools were discovered in the grounds of an urban mansion dating to the late 12th - early 13th centuries. A number of items including a matrix picturing a centaur, a bone chess piece from an Arab-Persian set, and clay toys suggest broad trade and cultural links of a medieval jeweler and characterize his varied and refined way of life and leisure.