Children's toys from the Fedorovsky excavation trench in Novgorod

The paper describes children's toys of the 11th-18th centuries discoveredduring archaeological excavations in the Fedorovsky excavation trench in Novgorod.The collection includes individual toys, usually imitations, e. g. copies of weapons (Fig. 1, 6; 3, 2) and vehicles (Fig. 2, 1, 2); figurative toys, such as a doll (Fig. 2, 4) andanthropomorphous figurines (Fig. 2, 3; 4, 2), figurines of a horse rider (Fig. 4, 1), horses (Fig. 4, 3, 4) and a bird (Fig. 3, 1); playthings such as sound toys, e. g. rattles (Fig. 1, 1, 2), penny whistles (Fig. 4, 5, 6), painted Easter eggs, orpisankas (Fig. 1, 3), bull-roarers; toysfor team games (leather balls (Fig. 1, 4), wooden balls (Fig. 1, 5), humming-tops.