1,000-Year-Old Child’s Bracelet with Virgin Mary Stamp Found at Momchil’s Fortress in Southern Bulgaria
November 9, 2017 · by Ivan Dikov
A metal child’s bracelet from the 11th-12th century with a stamp depicting the Virgin Mary – or the Holy Mother of God, as she is known in Eastern Orthodox Christianity – has been discovered by archaeologists during the excavations of the medieval Momchil’s Fortress near Smolyan in Southern Bulgaria.
Momchil’s Fortress is located on a mount in the Western Rhodope Mountains, near the town of Gradat, Smolyan District. The fortress itself dates back to the 6th century AD, i.e. the Early Byzantine period, but its site also has a Chalcolithic shrine from the 5th millennium BC as well as traces from Ancient Thrace in the Late Bronze Age and the Iron Age.
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