Colt

Remark of an archeological find of the 12th century mountain Knyazhaya.

This suspension bracket represents the exact copy of women's decoration of a colt.

Colt - mainly widespread in the city area, women's ornament which was suspended to a headdress. More colts from precious metals – gold, silver, also were widely adopted as well as for colts from other metals, for their ornament enamel, the equipment of common people, a skanye, grain was used. Kolta from gold and silver were mainly jewelry of the city nobility. And as their imitation, in the 12th century less valuable jewelry identical in a form and the drawing the first has appeared, however they were made, as a rule, of alloys with tin and lead and on other equipment – cast them in special casting molds.

In this case, before us the six-beam colt executed in the form of a suspension bracket. He is decorated skillful to a zernye and a skanye – these receptions have been mastered by ancient jewelers even the 10-11th centuries.

Some researchers consider that jewelry was decorated to a zernye not only from the esthetic point of view that patterns in the form of numerous circles, balls are closely connected with solar symbolics.

Solar symbolics – the lightest in traditions of ancient Slavs. Any sign relating to solar symbolics doesn't bear in itself harm or negative energy. All solar signs are identified with wellbeing, prosperity, are aimed at enhancement of various benefits, and material and spiritual. The sun in representation of ancient Slavs, also symbolizes an eye of Omniscience therefore, more often, evil and bad acts were made by objectionable people at night when forces of Pravi sleep, then both created dark sorcery and the evil spirits became more active. And when the earth was lit up by the sun – prevailed luminous intensity, preserving and protecting people and all live.

The solar symbolics applied on ornament bore in itself the preserving properties of heavenly, light, solar forces.