Szabó Miklós, Petres F. Éva: Decorated weapons on the La Tene Iron Age in the Carpathian Basin. (Inventaria Praehistorica Hungariae 5; Budapest, 1992)
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Scabbard Present maximum length. 18.7 cm. Breadth. 4.5 cm. Mouth Type B, 1.3 cm. Midrib. None. Overlaps. Front over back (?). Ferrule. Double recumbent S-shaped bar on the front plate, a kind of T-type reinforce on the reverse. Loop. Type IIIA, 1.3 cm long by 1.1 cm broad. Loop-plates. The upper plate is triangular and consists of a part of the T-shaped ferrule with a rivet in its centre, the lower one is shield-shaped, also with a rivet, tapering into a triangular form similarly to the upper loop-plate. The lower part of the scabbard is missing. Design. lb!+2b; HSS, phase 2. Sword Present maximum length. 55.7 cm. Total length of hilt. 12 cm. Breadth. 4.6 cm. Hilt end. The tang is surmounted by a double button. Grave goods Associations unkown. A scabbard with its sword (Halmajugra 1); two sword chains, a twisted chain and a punched one; two spearheads (one is of Rapin's "forme baionette lancé ajouré"); a shield boss with openwork edge (Rapin's type III); sherds from three different vessels; a knife. Literature. Hellebrandt (1973) 102, 112, Fig. 1.2, 115, Fig. 4.1-2, 117, Fig. 8.1-2; KKM, 44, Fig. 81, Cat. no. 81; Szabó (1982) 190, Fig. 24; Rapin (1988) 126 f, Fig. 62. bis 2 (spearhead, shield boss). 18. HATVAN-BOLDOG (County Heves). Scabbard with its sword. Stray find from the area of a Celtic cemetery. MNM. Perished during World War II (PI. 18). Scabbard Length. 53 cm. Mouth. Type B, 1.5 cm. Midrib. None. Overlaps. Front over back, broad, salient, overlapped to the tip. Reinforce. Bilateral, with two dome-shaped, decorated rosettes. Loop. Type II, 2.5 cm long by 1.3 cm broad. Loop-plates. The lower one is shield-shaped, the upper one is covered by the reinforce. Chape-clamps. Round. Chape-bridge. Straight. Chape-end. Type Kosd A 1} decorated with rosettes on both sides. Total length of chape. 8.4 cm Design. lbi+4a (the rosettes on both plates); postWaldalgesheim Style. Sword Total length. 69 cm. Total length of hilt. 11.9 cm. Breadth of blade. 3.3 cm (?). The squarish tang is surmounted by a large knob. Literature. Posta (1895) 18 ff, Pl. III.l, 21, Figs 40a-b, 23, 41.1-3; Márton (1933) Pl. XXVII. 1; Márton (1933-34) 121, 158, Pis LIV, LV.l; Hunyady (1942-44) 110 f; ECA, no. 118; Petres-Szabó (1985) 87 ff, Fig. 1.2; Petres-Szabó (1986) 257 ff, Figs 1-2. 19. JÁSZBERÉNY-CSERŐHALOM (County Szolnok). Razor. Cremation grave 17. SzDJM, inv. no. 62.11.19 (Pis 19-20). Razor Length. 18 cm. Maximum length of blade. 5 cm. Iron, with bronze coating. Single-edged blade with straight back. The handle is curved and ends in a knob surmounted by a horn. Both sides of the blade and the knob are decorated. Design. HSS, phase 2. Grave goods Drinking horn with dragon head terminal (the terminal depicts an open-mouthed dragon with protruding eyes, scale pattern and a tore around its neck; an openwork zig-zag ornamented mane; the flaring horn was originally ornamented with bronze mounts; forelegs broken off, the whole piece is fragmented; length, 20.3 cm) urn with five bands of smoothed-in wavy lines and two rows of stamped decoration on the shoulder; two bronze fibulae with plastic decoration (two discs for inlaid decoration divided by plastic decorated knobs on the bows; the spring mechanisms have an external cord and are fivecoiled; length, 14 cm and 6.8 cm resp., one is incomplete) anklet (?) (a solid closed ring of elongated links, diam., 9.5 cm); fragment of an iron ring; three solid, perforated iron discs, (diam., 3.5-3.9 cm) whetstone. La Tène Ci. Literature. Kaposvári (1969) 180, 184, Figs 1.8-14, 5, 6.1, 11.1-8, 12; Szabó (1971) 49, Fig. 15.10; KKM, 52, Cat. no. 96, Fig. 96; Krämer-Schubert (1979) 384 f, 387, Figs 10b, 11; Szabó (1982) 182, 189, Fig. 20; Megaw-Megaw (1989a) 148, Fig. 227. 20. JÁSZBERÉNY-HAJTAI HALOM (County Szolnok). Scabbard with its sword. Grave 13. SzDJM, inv. no. 91.12.1 (PI. 21). Scabbard Present maximum length. Front plate, 47.7 cm, reverse, 63.6 cm. Breadth. 5.4 cm. Mouth. Type B, 2.3 cm. Midrib. None. Overlaps. Back over front. Loop. Type IIIA, 1.5 cm long by 1.3 cm broad. Loop-plates. Oval, with palmetteshaped terminals. Design. 2b 2 +5; HSS, phase 2. Sword Total length. 83.6 cm. Length of hilt. 10.3 cm. Breadth. 4.9 cm. The tang is surmounted by a double knob.
