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IRON AGE ENAMELLED BROOCH 3rd-5th century AD A Kiev culture bronze openwork brooch with iron pin to the coiled band, the body formed with geometric panels of red enamel and white enamelled discs, red enamelled triangles with yellow undulating band. 68 grams, 12.5cm (5"). Very fine condition. Provenance Property of a German gentleman; acquired on the European art market in the 1990s. Footnotes The Kiev archaeological culture was located in the basin of the rivers Dnieper and Visla between the 3rd and 5th centuries; archaeologists connect this culture with the historical ancestors of the Slavs. However, there are suggestions that in different regions of the Kiev culture the ethnogenetic processes were not the same. In some cases, the Slavic component prevailed, whilst Baltic and others were dominant elsewhere.