Jewerly from early medieval cemeteries with pagan burial characteristics in northern and middle Dalmatia

Groblja s poganskim osobinama pokapanja pripadaju u groblja na redove, a najveća koncentracija zabilježena je na prostoru omeđenom rijekama Zrmanjom i Krkom, odnosno na području sjeverne Dalmacije. Groblja se okvirno datiraju u 8. i prvu polovicu 9. stoljeća, iako se mogu javiti i prije, dakle u 7. stoljeću. Na najvećoj dosad istraženoj nekropoli unutar grobalja s poganskim osobinama pokapanja, nekropoli Nin – Ždrijac, u grobu 62 pronađen je srebrni denar franačkog cara Lotara I čime se prestanak uporabe grobalja s poganskim osobinama pokapanja smješta u sredinu 9. stoljeća. Nakit iz grobalja s poganskim osobinama pokapanja većinom je uvoz iz bizantskih radionica, tj. mediteranskoga kulturnog kruga. Postojanje domaćih radionica veže se za razdoblje od 9. do 11. stoljeća kada započinje izrada nakita po uzoru na bizantski. Naime, pojedini primjerci nakita ne pronalaze se isključivo u grobovima s poganskim osobinama pokapanja grobovima, već se mogu naći i u prvoj fazi s kršćanskim osobinama pokapanja.Graves with pagan burial characteristics belong to cemeteries laid out in rows, with the largest concentration recorded between rivers Zrmanja and Krka, that is the area of the northern Dalmatia. The cemeteries are roughly dated from the 8th to the first half of the 9th century, although they can also be dated to the 7th century. On the largest excavated necropolis with pagan burial characteristics, Nin – Ždrijac, in the grave 62, a silver denarius of the Franciscan Emperor Lotarus was found. It signifies the discontinuation of the use of the cemeteries with pagan burial characteristics around the middle of the 9th century. Jewelry from the cemeteries with pagan burial characteristics is mostly imported from Byzantine workshops i. e. the Mediterranean cultural circle. The existence of the domestic workshops is linked to the period betwween the 9th and the 11th century when the production of the jewelry after Byzantine model begins. Certain types of jewelry do not appear only in the cemeteries with pagan burial characteristics, but also in the first phase of the graves with the Christian burial characteristics