Horváth Attila – H. Tóth Elvira szerk.: Cumania 4. Archeologia (Bács-Kiskun Megyei Múzeumok Közleményei, Kecskemét, 1976)

H. Tóth E.: Az Izsák-balázspusztai honfoglaláskori lovassír

ing-bridle. There is an oblong hole on the bridle to lace in the strap, and the fragment of a similar joint larger ring at the mouth piece of the bit. Onlyfragments of the piece starting from the hinged mouth-piece. Length: 15.0 cm (Plate 14/a). SMALL STRAP-END, cast silver, narrow and oblong, the corroded corner and the middle bud ornament of the upper edge is broken, the bottom comes to a curved point. Only the vague traces of an emerging line of leaves can be seen on the sides of the surface. It is badly cast, broken, or rather repaired, with two cast rivets. Length: 3.2 cm. Width: 1.2 cm (Plate 15/2). MOUNTING, cast silver. Bordered by leaf pattern ending in thick shoots which develop from palmettes, decorated with a bud in the center of the palmette. The obverse is corroded, with three cast rivets on the back. Length: 1.8 cm. Width: 1.9 cm. Thickness: 0.5 cm (Plate 15/9). MOUNTING, cast silver, pentagonal. The surface is broken by three intersecting planes in the middle. The edge is divided by chiselled shoots, and two buds. Broken, with casting fault. Comes from the disturbed area. Length: 1.6 cm. Width: 2.2 cm (Plate 15/5). MOUNTING, similar to the one before; corroded on the lower part of its surface, with casting fault, and three rivets on the reverse. Length: 1.6 cm. Width: 2.7 cm (Plate 15/7). MOUNTING, similar to the above with healthy surface, only the upper right corner with a rivet is missing. Length: 1.6 cm. Width: 1.9 cm (Plate 15/8). SMALL STRAP-END, cast silver, narrow, oblong the upper part cut straight, lower end tapers to a point. The smooth surface has opposing foiled decoration deepened down with smooth joining edges. At the joint of the two foiled ornaments there are buds. Length: 2.5 cm. Width: 1.1 cm (Plate 15/13). BUCKLE, cast silver, small, with oval ring, worn, deformed. The shield shape is pentagonal with oblong hole for the tongue. With two rivets on the reverse with copper plate washers. Length: 1.7 cm. Width: 1.9 cm (Plate 15/11). MOUNTING, cast silver, small on the upper part, and semicircular deepened ornamentation on the lower part. These resemble a stylized human face. Buds are on the upper middle and on the two side areas. Lower edge brittle and lacking on one side. One of its rivets from the reverse broke off. Length: 1.4 cm. Width: 1.1 cm (Plate 15/10). SABRETACHE-PLATE of double silver and copper plates. The upper edge is straight, lower part widening in a curve and rounded. The edge was framed by five half round headed silver rivets on the upper edge and sixteen such rivets on the curving edge. Three rivets with a large part of the right side of the plate were lost. The plate is undecorated, in bad state of preservation, corroded in layers from much hammering. The upper left corner broke due to the finders damaging it, the surface is brittle. The back copper plate is hammered unevenly. Edges are fragmented. Length: 11.7 cm. Upper width: 7.5 cm. Cover width: 11.0 cm. Copperplate: Length: 10.7 cm. Width: 10.6 cm (Plate 16-17). MOUNTING, cast silver, heart shaped, the flat edge is deepened sharply down which was gilt. With three rivets on the reverse, ends hammered flat. Length: 2.0 cm. Width: 2.6 cm (Plate 15/1). MOUNTING, cast silver similar to the previous one with three rivets on the reverse. Length: 2.0 cm. Width: 2.6 cm (Plate 15/2). MOUNTING, cast silver, similar to the previous ones, with textile pressure like corrosion on the surface. Its best third broken off, missing. Two rivets on the reverse. It came to light from under the bone plate of the front pommel. Length: 1.9 cm. Width: 1.9 cm (Plate 15/3). MOUNTING, cast silver, the lower end points into a leaf shape, deepened along the lower edge sharply, with three rivets on the reverse. Length: 2.4 cm. Width: 2.0 cm (Plate 15/4). BOW-HILT-PLATE, broken in two. One side tapers along the horizontal brake, incomplete, the two tapering ends are traced, the surface is of dark colouration. Length: 15.2 cm. Width: 2.5 cm (Plate 18/11, 31.). BOW-HILT-PLATE, pair of the previous piece with a bigger and unfitting two smaller fragments. Length: 9.1 cm. Width: 2.5 cm (Plate 18/8-20). 153