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Recovered Hoard · Mala Pereshchepyna, near Poltava, Ukraine

The Pereshchepina Treasure

The Pereshchepina Treasure: still unexplained.

◆ Evidence tier: Tradition7th c. · found 1912 – present◎ Recently discovered — still growing

The Story

What is claimed · what is sourced · what is still disputed

A shepherd boy near Poltava put his foot through the ground in 1912 and fell, the tale runs, into a hoard of gold and silver, vessels, weapons, and rings of the Migration Period, believed to be the burial treasure of Kubrat, the founding khan of Old Great Bulgaria. Seal-rings bearing his name turned a field accident into a lost king's grave.

What remains open

  • No period map of the site has surfaced.
  • No contemporary press coverage has been found.

The lure: The grave-treasure of Kubrat, first khan of the Bulgars

How it was found: A shepherd boy near Poltava in 1912 stepped on gold poking out of the ground, which unspooled into a vast early-medieval hoard tied to a steppe khan.

Evidence & Corroboration

Distinct evidence classes that independently agree — never a single score

Historical tradition
Newspaper mention
Scholarly support
Archival evidence
Official map/chart
Corroborated
Verified fact

? Open

  • No period map of the site has surfaced.
  • No contemporary press coverage has been found.

Historic Maps

Period cartography · Library of Congress & DPLA via IIIF · deep-zoom

◇ No period cartography on file yet. The IIIF map adapters (Library of Congress, David Rumsey, DPLA) fill this automatically when they find charts of this place.

Period Newspaper Coverage

Dated OCR mentions · Chronicling America / loc.gov — a mention proves circulation, nothing more

◇ No dated newspaper coverage yet. Chronicling America runs against this legend automatically and lands dated clips here.

Archival Documents

Manuscripts, government records, company filings · NARA · IIIF · registries

◇ No archival documents on file yet. NARA and national-archive adapters attach primary records here as they surface.

Timeline

Every event source-backed · unsourced events are dropped, never invented

◇ No dated, source-backed events yet. Timeline entries are built only from evidence with a confirmed date -- nothing is estimated or invented.

Sources & Citations

Typed, first-class citations with retrieval provenance

◇ No typed citations compiled yet -- check Historic Maps, Newspapers, and Archives above as they fill in.

From the archive

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