Vladimir Yu. Malashev^1,*, Zalina P. Kadzaeva^2,**

¹Institute of Archaeology RAS, Moscow, Russia
²Institute of History and Archaeology, Vladikavkaz, Republic of North Ossetia – Alania, Russia

*E-mail: malashev@yandex.ru
**E-mail: zalina.kad@mail.ru

Keywords: the North Caucasus, the Lower Don, the Lower Volga, strongly profiled fibulae 11-II-3, the mid-3rd–4th c.

The paper considers the chronology of late strongly profiled fibulae identified by A.K. Ambroz as variant 3 of series II within group 11. Previously, reliably documented complexes with their findings were known in the Lower Don and the Lower Volga regions, but recently a series of sets with these fibulae have been found in other territories, mainly in the North Caucasus, which gives grounds to revisit the issue of their chronology. The results of the analysis make it possible to state that the emergence of strongly profiled fibulae 11-II-3 occurs in the middle of the 3rd century; mass spreading outside the area of the Alan culture took place from the second half of the 3rd century, mainly not until the end of that century, and most of the finds date back to the 4th century; the upper limit of the functioning of these fibulae extends to the Hunnic time, but does not go beyond the 4th century.

 DOI: 10.31857/S086960630009953-7