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 Length. 67.6 cm, fragmented in four. Breadth. 4.2 cm. Mouth. Type A 2 , subcampanulate variety, 0.5 cm. Midrib. None. Overlaps. Back over front (?). Reinforce. None. Loop. Type II, 2.5 cm long by 1 cm broad. Loopplates. Round. Chape-clamps. Round, with a dot and circle motif. Chape-bridge. Straight, the lower edge has a very low arch. Chape-end. Type Kosd C, ornamented with "bird head" decoration on the front plate. Length of chape. 13 cm. Design. 3a; postWaldalgesheim Style. Sword Total length. 73.5 cm. Total length of hilt. 11 cm. Breadth. 3.7 cm. Folded in two. La Tène B 2 . Literature. KKM, 42, Cat. no. 72, Fig. 72; Szabó (1977) 213; Frey (1978-79) 69; Szabó (1985a) 59; Horváth (1987) 123 f, 172, Pl. XXXIII. 57. SOPRON-BÉCSLDOMB (County Győr-Sopron). Scabbard with its sword. From a cremation burial. SLFM, formerly in the Storno Collection (PL 58). Scabbard Length. 60 cm. Breadth. 4.8 cm. Mouth. A x , straight sided variety. Midrib. None. Ferrule. Twisted bar with two ornamented discs on the front plate. Overlaps. Front over back. Loop. Missing. Chape-clamps. Round. Chapebridge. Missing. Chape end. Type Kosd C. Design. Triskels set within the two discs of the ferrule. Sword Total length. 70.5 cm. Total length of hilt. 10.5 cm. Breadth of blade. 4.5 cm. Folded in two. Grave goods Iron spearhead; tip missing, a rivet on its socket. Literature. Paur (1886) 101 f, Pl. V; Márton (1933-34) 147, Pl. XLIII. l-4b; Hunyady (1942-44) 109, PL XLIII. 1; KKM, 37, Cat. no. 68, Fig. 68; Jerem (1974-75) 51, PL 18.15. 58. SOPRON-BÉCSLDOMB (County GyŐr-Sopron). Spearhead. From a cremation burial. SLFM, inv. no. 82.1.1 formerly in the Storno Collection (PL 59). Spearhead Made of iron with willow-leaf-shaped blade and decorated socket, which has two rivets. Length. 41.2 cm. Breadth of blade. 3.2 cm. Breadth of socket. 1.6 cm. Design. Engraved geometric pattern on the socket. The tip is slightly bent. Grave goods Scabbard with its sword (scabbard, mouth, Type Ai, straight-sided variety; midrib, none; ferrule, a three-part bar encircling the scabbard; midrib, none; loop, Type IB, bar-shaped; loopplates, shield-shaped with rivets; chape-end, missing; sword, the tang is surmounted by a flat disc-button, folded in two); Dux-type (?) fibula, the foot and pin are broken; bronze ring with incised lines; urn. La Tène Bj. Literature. Paur (1886) 101, Pl. V.l, 2-8; Márton (1933-34) 146 f, Pis XLI, XLII. 2a-d; Hunyady (194244) 120; Szabó (1972) 48, Fig. 15.3; KKM, 20, Cat. no. 97, Fig. 97; Duval, A. (1982) 139. 59. SZENDRŐ (County Borsod). Anthropoid-hilted sword. Probably from a disturbed burial. MNM, inv. no. 63.151.30 (PL 60). Anthropoid-hilted sword Bronze hilt with iron blade. Sunken knobhead, straight flat grip with Y-shaped, stylised limbs. A relief of antithetic triskels forming a lyre pattern underneath the knob-head. The back of the knob-head is framed with hatching. The knobs surmounting the "arms" are also adorned with pattern in postWaldalgesheim Style. Total length. 49 cm. Total length of hilt. 12 cm. Breadth. 7 cm. Breadth of blade. 4 cm. Folded in three. Literature. Pulszky (1879) 11; Márton (1933) 47, 50 f, 116, PL XIV.2; Márton (1933-34) 159; Hunyady (1942-44) 116 f, PL XLVIL4; ECA, 94, 207; ClarkeHawkes (1955) 206 f, Fig. 2.3, PL XXV.l, "Class A 2) no. 4"; Hunyady (1957) 183; Szabó (1971) 48, Fig. 15.5, PL 9; KKM, Cat. no. 94; Petres (1979) 173, Fig. 3, 177, PL 1.4. 60. SZOB (County Pest). Scabbard with its sword. From an inhumation burial. MNM, inv. nos 52.38.115, 62.3.206 (Pis 61-62, 111. EU). Scabbard Present maximum length. 57 cm. Breadth. 6 cm. Mouth. Subtriangular form, 2 cm. Midrib. None. Overlaps. Back over front. Reinforce. Probably bilateral, only the T/V type part on the reverse has survived. Loop. Type HIB, 0.8 cm long by 1 cm broad. Loop-plates. Shield-shaped, with triangular tip, ornamented with plastic S- and triskel motifs in the "champ-levé" technique. Chapeclamps. None. Chape-bridge. Probably
