The silver binding of the saddle dated to the turn of the 6th century from the Mitino cemetery in the Kaliningrad region

This paper reports on a unique find of saddle silver pommel and cantle binding plates decorated with chased ornamentation discovered in grave No. 335 at Mitino, which is a cemetery dated to the later stage of the Migration period. The ornamentation motif on these plates finds analogies predominantly in the Scandinavian Region and also in other regions of the Germanic world and neighboring Lithuania, therefore, confirming extensive intercultural contacts of the Aesti nobility.