Achaeometrical Research in Hungary II., 1988

ANCIENT TECHNOLOGY - Tünde HORVÁTH - Erzsébet MARTON: Prehistoric spinning and weaving objects from the Carpathian basin (Hungary)

Catalogue: Remains of the weaving loom Loom weights

15 No 56 Shape of weights Site Weight Loom Period No 56 ring pyramid sphere donut Site Weight width Period No 56 53 1 1 1 Velem ? LB-LI 9 1 7 1 Százhalombatta ? 200 cm LB-LI 18 12 6 Százhalombatta ? EB-MB 3 3 Bölcske ? MB Special shapes: star and trapezoid, Öcsöd - Kováshalom, LN The forms of loom weights Ring shaped Site: Velem - Szent Vid (fig. 12) Measurements: dl=8-12 cm d2= 4-6 cm No weights were found in situ we do not have any, because all of them belonged to the destruction layers of the Celtic rampart. Pyramid shaped (fig. 13) Site: Velem - Szent Vid (Stratigraphie Unit 5034) Debris from the Late Bronze Age/Late Iron Age (Celtic) settlement. Measurements: H=

12 cm dl=4x4 cm d2= 6x6 cm d3= 1.5x6 cm Site: Százhalombatta Debris from the Early Iron Age settlement, Stratigraphie Unit 22-23, 36/1993 Sphere-shaped (Fig. 13) Site: Velem - Szent Vid (Stratigraphie Unit 5034) 15 With the exception of Velem - Szent Vid and Százhalombatta-Sáncalja, the other loom weights are published. In: Bölcske: Bronzezeit in Ungarn. Forschungen in Teil-Siedlungen an Donau und Theiss. Katalog, no. 166. p. 186. Százhalombatta-Földvár ibid. no. 242. p. 182. Öcsöd: The Late Neolithic of the Tisza Region. Budapest-Szolnok, 1987. Catalogue, 1987. P. Raczky: Öcsöd-Kováshalom 61-85 pp. 251