Folia archeologica 1-2.
Leszih Andor: Borsodmegyei szkíta leletek
82 LESZIH: SCYTHIAN FINDS FROM THE COUNTY OF BORSOD an awl 13-5 cm long (PL III, fig. 21) of which the thicker end is rectangular and the thinner round, and an obsidian blade. In the vicinity of this grave were the fragments of an undecorated, coarse-walled urn without any deposit. 7. URNGRAVE. The half of a small dish 3-5 cm high containing a human finger joint and a half of a solid bronze ring decorated with grooves. Between graves 7 and 8 was one half of a circular metal plate (PL 11, fig. 25, diam. 5 cm) with ribbed ornamentation (mirror?). 8/a. Two red clay vessels, the one (Pi. Ill, fig. 1) in the form of an urn and not as pouched as the other, with high neck and slightly everted rim. The other (PL III, fig. 2) has a short neck. Both of them are 11 cm high. 8/b. A coarse-walled clay pot with handle (PL III, fig. 3, height 7 cm). 9. URNQRAVE. A 29 cm high urn in an inverted position (PL 111, fig. 4). Its body consist of two disproportioned parts, the lower part on a raised base widens like a dish, and the upper part is twice as large as the former and its circumference is 76 cm at the belly and 48 cm at the neck. Its rim is slightly everted. All round the lower half of its upper part is a decoration consisting of impressed dots forming geometrical patterns (Fig. 3): three triangles — each consisting of irregularly 10—16 dots — in one group so placed that two are side by side and one above them, thus forming a big triangle, which recurs seven times. Above this line of decoration are six swastikas, produced also by impressed dots. Among them are two identical, simple ones; another with the feet consisting of double lines of dots, and on three of them between the legs are various lines, consisting also of dots. On the urn was a rather thick stone slab of irregular shape (length 24 cm, width 14 cm). Among the burnt remains were three spindle-whorls (PL III, figs. 5—7) of which two are undecorated and one is ornamented with simple vertically incised lines. 9/a. URNGRAVE. A large pouched urn (PL III, fig. 16, heigth 27 cm) made on the wheel, with everted rim and of greyish colour. 10. URNGRAVE. The fragment of a 10 cm high mug, made on the wheel, with broad handle, and a coarse potsherd with ribbed ornamentation. Beside these a simple thin iron ring 6-5 cm in diameter, broken in two pieces. About 20 cm distant from these the traces of human bones and two spindle-whorls (PI. Ill, figs. 12—13) the one coarse and irregular, and the other smaller, flat of regular shape, and a bronze button (PL III, fig. 8; Arch. Ért. 1898, p. 269. fig. 3) with its disc 24—25 mm in diameter, its upper part concial terminating in a stud and on its lower part two loops. The stud of the concial part of the bronze button was pushed into the hole of the one spindle-whorl. Further there were seven pressed globular glass beads of dark blue colour (PL III, fig. 11, diam. 8 mm); two arrow-heads (Pl. Ill, figs. 10, 14) with three sharply projecting blades and with a hole on one of their sides; a small bronze loop, the ends standing apart, terminate in a slightly convex circular surface (PL. Ill, fig. 9, diam. 17 mm). There was among the grave-goods also a bronze bracelet (Pl. Ill, fig. 15, diam. 68—71 mm) tapering slightly towards the join and decorated with vertical incisions. 10/a. URNGRAVE at the land-slide. Two coarsewalled vessels in the form of a flower-pot (PL III, figs. 17 — 18). Below he rim of the one (height 12 cm) are three projecting warts, and on the other (height 10 cm) one wart and a coarse line of incised dots. Beside the latter was an iron knife (PL III, fig. 19, length 13-5 cm) with haft, which was broken about its middle. Underneath that was a stone celt-like grindstone (PL III, fig. 20, length 8 cm) with the one face flat and the other convex. A little further to the side was a hafted iron knife (PI. Ill, fig. 24, length 33-5 cm, width 1-9—2 cm) with a slightly curved tapering blade. The grip is only 5 cm long and its end is oval, provided with a rivet. At the end of the blade just below the grip is an iron strip, lapped over it, under which are the remains of the bone plate, which covered the grip forming its end. Underneath the iron knife was a grindstone, regularly polished (PI. Ill, fig. 22, length 12 cm). 11. URNGRAVE. A thick-walled clay urn (Pl. III, fig. 23, height 25 cm) with its largest diameter on the upper third part. Below its rim are four broad warts, each of which is divided into two parts by a finger-tip impression on the middle. Between the warts there is a line of dots, made by finger-tip impression. The urn contained an inverted clay dish, 16 cm in diameter (in fragments) and many burnt bones, as well as the tooth of a child less than 12 years of age. 12. URNGRAVE. The fragment of a brick-red clay dish, made on the wheel, with inturned rim (roughly it could have been 8—9 cm high and 25—26 cm in diameter). The deposits were: a hafted iron knife (PL 1П, fig. 25, length 20 cm), of which the end is missing, the blade is 2-5 cm broad; a grindstone (PL III, fig. 26, length 16 cm) regularly polished with a perforation on its thicker end, and the other end tapering; undecorated spindle whorl. 13. URNGRAVE. The largish urn (Fig. 4, no. 1) was covered by a dish with straight upright rim. Both were in fragments. The urn is sharply pouched with straight neck and rim. The whole urn could have been roughly 28 cm high and 15 cm in diameter at the mouth. In the urn were found burnt human bones and two iron knives, of which the one (PL HI, fig. 27, length 11-5 cm) with haft and with slightly curving blade. The other (Pl. HI, fig. 28, length 10 cm) is straight and at the beginning of the grip has an iron strip overlapping it, under nhich are remains of bone plate, being the cover of the grip. The iron strip is attached to the blade with a rivet. An awl-like iron pin (seen below the fig. 28 of PI. Ill, length 10-5 cm) and the fragment of a grindstone occurred also in the grave. 14. The fragment of a largish, coarse walled vessel with warts. No deposits. 15. The lower part of a vessel (Fig. 4, no. 2), made on the wheel, in its present state resembling a bowl (11-5 cm high). Its rim is uneven, of which the surface had been afterwards polished. Close to it the
