A Herman Ottó Múzeum évkönyve 53. (2014)
Régészet - Tóth Krisztián: Noteworthy Findings of the Roman Age and Early Migration Period from Borsodszirák, Northestern Hungary. First Investigations
162 Tóth Krisztián 500 Meters ■ 1:1500 Legend Distribution of periods Roman age and early migration period Roman age (metal objects) Middle and late bronze age Neolithic age j|ggj»p Fig. 2. Period distribution of the site. Findings from the 10th century dispersing on the same area as bronze age (blue polygon) 2. kép. A lelőhely korszakainak eloszlása: a 10. századból származó leletek szóródása megegyezik a bronzkori leletekével (kék polygon) 1995, 468—469). Consequently, the item in question is an accessory of a Roman quadripod. 2. Strap end The bronze strap end is also an interesting find, and it seems to be currently without parallel. It was fixed to the leather with three semicircular-headed bronze rivets (Fig. 3. 7). The alone standing rivet is located in the middle of an almost circular protrusion that is connected to the body. The body of the strap end widens rhomboid-like after this protrusion. The other two rivets are situated at its greatest width, in pairs. After this the body of the strap end is narrowed, it becomes round in cross section, and a barrel-shaped, flared decoration complemented with a cut-in line can be found in its middle. Another engraved line runs along at the rounded end of the object, perpendicular to the body. Its length is 7.9 cm, its maximum width is 2 cm, its thickness is 4 mm, and it is 7 mm thick at the flared barrel-shaped section. Strap ends in the older Roman Imperial Period occur in relatively large amounts in the Germanic territories. Their origins can be traced back to the late La Téne culture, but very similar pieces also appear at the Roman army (Raddatz 1957, 81). Considering the analogies of the one of Borsodszirák, it shows some similarities with the Raddatz O.ll type, which is dated to the period Cl (Raddatz 1957, 83). These were, however, mounted with one or two rivets, and their whole body is flat till the knob at the end of their shaft. In Renata Madyda-Legutko’s recent classification the Borsodszirák find can be classified into the second group of the second type, the shaft of which ends in a knob or in a cork after the knob (Madyda-Legutko 2011, 211). Within this type it is most similar to variant 5 that Madyda-Legutko dated to the Cl period (Madyda-Legutko 2011, 211). These are also fixed with three rivets, but their neck is decorated with engraved lines, and there is a knob on their end - unlike the Borsodszirák piece with a profiled barrel-shaped decoration. Based on the shaft and the design of the profiled barrel decoration of the Borsodszirák strap end, I reckon that its closest parallel is the strap end of Grave 82 of Weklice, although not either this item shows perfect resemblance with our object (Natuniewicz-Sekula-Okulicz-Kozaryn 2011,
