Locks and keys of the early medieval Ladoga

The paper provides an overview of locks and keys from Staraya Ladoga dating to the early historical stage of this settlement (second half of the 8th-10th centuries). Most items have analogies found in several trade and craft settlements and cemeteries in Scandinavia and the Circum-Baltic region. It is the items imported from northern Europe to Staraya Ladoga that started the tradition of using locks and keys in Medieval Russia.