Temple pendants of the Sanski Most type

Temple pendants of the Sanski Most type are worn on the temples, hanging from a hair band worn on the forehead.

They consist of two parts.The upper portion is made from a wide ribbon-like wire, and the lower has the shape of two partial cones (without apexes); the two parts are joined at their bases. Only one side, probably the outer, is ornamented. The ornamentation consists of a barely visible zig-zag pattern produced by tremolo grooving, repeated along the very edge.

A double circle with a dot is also visible in three places. This motif is also found on several specimens of contemporaneous fibulae (type Certosa XIIIh) originating from this location. Such pendants have only ever been found in Sanski Most, and are thus considered a markedly local element of woman’s attire from the transition between the Early and the Late Iron Age.