title: ELEMENTS OF HORSE EQUIPMENT OF POST-HUNNIC PERIOD IN THE NORTH CAUCASUS AND THEIR VARIANTS ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF THE STEPPE
abstract: On the archaeological sites of the North Caucasus for the post-Hunnic Period (the so-called horizon of Shupovo, mid-V – mid-VI centuries AD), a number of indicative elements of horse equipment — bits, buckles, strap appliques, and metal appliques for saddles – were revealed. The same things are recorded in settled barbarians on the boundary of the nomadic steppe. Moreover, with the exception of saddle appliques, they are absent in the burials of the steppe nomads of the same time (Huns, Bulgaria