Varga Máté - Szentpéteri József (szerk.): Két világ határán. Természet- és társadalomtudományi tanulmányok a 70 éves Költő László tiszteletére - A kaposvári Rippl-Rónai Múzeum közleményei 6. (Kaposvár, 2018)
Horváth M. Attila: Egy különleges késő avar kori övveret Szabadszállásról
116 HORVÁTH M. ATTILA A special Late Avar period belt mount from Szabadszállás ATTILA M. HORVÁTH Between 1972 and 1975 in Szabadszállás a relatively small Avar cemetery of only 68 graves was excavated by Attila Horváth and Elvira H.Tóth. A significant amount of the graves were already damaged but silver- and bronze plated square belt mount with glass paste and weaved ornament; a cast bronze belt set with griffins, iron knives and daggers, iron and bronze buckles, a shepherd's axe of iron were found, as well as a grey wheeled spouted bowl and a vessel decorated with wavy lines, handmade grave ceramics, several types of bead-pendant earrings and pearls; and a blank obulus cut from a thin gold plate. There were no weapons besides the above mentioned axe and daggers. There were a significant amount of animal bones in the graves that can be interpreted as the remains of food packed for the deceased. Researchers have identified a characteristic burial habit: the deceased were covered with partially skinned sheepskin and the graves were lined with animal skins. Based on the finds the cemetery was used between the 2nd half of the 7th century and the middle of the 8th century. In 1974, the intact grave of a male (No. 34) was uncovered that contained belt mounts with griffins, including a double piece with only one analogy known in Hungary. There was 5 griffin mounts belonging to the belt, 4 depicting griffins - out of those 3 with pendants. The fifth mount, however, unusually represents two opposing griffin forms. We do not know about such a form of Hungary, apart from the formally similar but somewhat different find of Szeged-Öthalom. There also were 4 horseshoe-shaped hole protectors, trapezoid bronze buckle decorated with floral ornaments, and the ending of the belt that depicts marching griffins. However, no propeller shaped belt mounts were found.
