In northern Gaul, at the Bulles and Vron (Picardy) burial grounds, several bronze trapezoidal pendants with stamped decor were found. The earliest of them come from female burials of the Protomerovingian Period (440/450– 470/480); these decorations probably have nothing to do with the Slavs. The temporal ring with trapezoidal pendants from the Arcy-Saint-Restitue burial ground, also in Picardy, is of particular interest. These pendants are well represented in the Slavic cultures of the 5th–9th centuries, and in the Avar antiquities of the Middle Danube. However, in Central Europe, such pendants are not part of the temporal rings. But similar temporal rings in the 8th — early 9th centuries. well known in the burials of the Smolensk long mounds (Tsurkovka, Akatovo, Beskatovo), as well as in Staraya Ladoga. The latter find may explain the entry of such a earring into Northern Gaul, since at this time the Northern Sea Route operates through the Baltic and the North Sea, uniting into a single system of emporia from Ladoga to Quentovic on the Channel.