Some women wore whole cascades rather than pairs of Temple rings. They were fixed to a ribbon so as to make a long chain that could come all the way down to the shoulders. Rings were sometimes supplemented by small charms, such as bells or coins.

Like most other jewelry items, temple rings were considered to be charms that protected a woman from evil forces, helped her to be happy in her family life and give birth to healthy children. Teenage girls, who were too young to get married, usually did not wear such rings or wore very simple ones made of wire. Young unmarried and married women, by contrast, heavily decorated their headdresses with intricate metal jewelry. The older a woman became, the fewer rings she wore on her temples. Mothers passed down their jewelry to their daughters

Temple rings exhibited in Bryansk Local History Museum are cast from brass, an alloy of copper and tin. They were made between the 11th and 13th centuries. The rings’ outer edges are decorated with seven pointed blades, each of which has a ball on its tip. Their inner edges have seven small triangular-shaped points. The ring’s hoop is not solid, it has an opening, where there might have been a lock or the ring was attached directly to headdress edges.