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The chemical composition of 7 fragments of the gold foil covering the wooden (?) handle attached to an iron knife from the burial of a noblewoman in the Upper Don area was investigated by two methods – XRF and X-ray electronic spectroscopy (XRS). All samples showed that the gold foil was produced from an Au-Ag-Cu alloy (type III), with a high degree of Ag concentration in the XRS samples. The data suggests that this is the result of the process of silver diffusion to the surface of the samples, but the reasons for this are not clear yet. The actual quality of the knife handle is low and, in comparison with other high-status objects, it cannot be included in the category of high-quality artefacts. Thus, we cannot exclude the possibility that the knife from burial 2 at Mukhino is a local copy, or an item produced in the ‘metropolis’ especially for export to the ‘barbarian’ world.

Gold foil covering of the handle of an iron knife from burial 2 of the Hunnic Period cemetery at Mukhino, in the Upper Don area