Antique women's pendants of Kievan Rus'

In this photo you can see an ancient russian woman's gold pendants. It had been made in XIIth century in Kievan Rus'.Such a ring-pendant was named kolt. Kolt is an old russian women's empty pendant. Pairs of kolts had been suspended to the headdress (kokoshnik) from the both sides. Woman had worn 3 pendants on each temple.

According to another origin, 2 kolts could hung down from the both sides of kokoshnik on the ribbons.You can see this variant on the reconstruction of the russian woman's headdress of XIIth century.

A form of kolt was depended on a Slavic tribe. You can see kolts of different Slavic tribes below. It were made from silver in XI-XII centuries.