Janus Pannonius Múzeum Évkönyve 16 (1971) (Pécs, 1972)

Régészet - Jerem, Erzsébet: Késővaskori sírleletek Beremendről (Baranya megye)

JERÈM ERZSÉBET The late iron age cemetery finds of Beremend (County of Baranya) E. JEREM In 1962 two graves were found at a sand mine area, about 7-800 m from the Beremend railway station, South-east direction. (Fig. 1. and 2.) Grave 1. W-E orientation, skeleton-type of burying, the skeleton is in a very bad state of preservation. The Astragal members diagonally lying tightly close to each other in three rows, from right shoulders to left hip, with a three-looped clasp on both ends. Above them there were a lot of blue, grey and yellow glass paste beads, seemingly arranged in some order. A silver bead close to the neck, around the neck and the skull, too, a great number of glass paste and amber beads. On the shoulders 2-2 bronze fibulae, at the left side of the chest also two fibulae were found, but only 1-1 fibula (which were found on the shoulders) were taken to the Janus Pannonius Museum, Pécs. (Fig. 3.) Inventory: i. Yellow, cylindric glass paste beads. (Fig. 5. 1.) 2. Light-coloured and grey-blue glass paste beads. (Fig. 5. 2.) 3. Dark blue, melon-shaped glass paste beads. (Fig. • 5". З.) 4. Amber beads. (Fig. 5. 4.) 5. Finely wrought, biconic, melon-shaped silver bead. (Fig. 5. 5.) 6. Fibula of the Certosa-type, bronze, one-sided, double spring, both ends of its bow are closed by a protuberant, double rib decoration, its footplate, which is extended trapeze-shaped, decorated with circular heads, its foot ending in a button. (Fig. 5. 6.) 7. Fibula of the Certosa-type, crossbow, with curved bow, its foot ending in a button. (Fig. 5. 7.) 8. a-b. Astragal type girdle, with three-looped girdle clasp. (Fig. 5. 8. a-b., PI. I. 1-2.) Grave 2. It is located about 1,5 m from the former one, East orientation. According to its finder, the bronze spirals, from which the whole girdle was made of, were lying as a heap about the level of the pelvic, the places of other objects could have been ascertained only approximately. (Fig. 4.) We can be driven to the conclusion, that this was also a badly preserved female grave, because of the size of the grave and the lack of the burnt spots. It was probably such a grave, which was revealed in an incompetent way. Inventory : 1. Yellow, greyish and bright blue and bird's eye pattern cylindric and disc-shaped glass paste beads (Fig. 6. 1. a-d.) 2. Melon-shaped, biconic clay bead (Fig. 6. 2.) 3. One-looped, silver bow fibula, rectangular, on both sides punched decorated needle-holder plate, the slightly back-bending foot ends in a button. (Fig. 6. 3.) 4. One-looped silver bow fibula, the same type as the above-mentioned one, but its needleholder plate is decorated only on the outer side of the surface (Fig. 6. 4., PL II. 1.) 5-7. Fibulae of the Certosa type, one-sided, with double spring, with a bow, which bulges like a sharp form, its foot ending in a flat button. The foot is extended trapeze-shaped. The catch-plate of both ones circular heads decorated. (Fig. 6. 5-7., PI. II. 2.) 8. Fragment of a smaller case, bent bronze plate, its lower, extended . part is decorated by some etching. (Fig, 6. 8.) 9. Iron knife, with slightly curved back, its extended tang is broken away. (Fig. 6. 9.) 10. Sceptre, made of bent bronze plate, decorated by engraving, with trapeze-shaped pendants. (Fig. 7. i„ PI. II. 5.) 11-14. Bracelets, made of twisted silver, one end of them is narrowed, the other one is twirled back, four pieces. (Fig. 7. 2-5., PI. II. 3.) 15. Whorl, made of the side of thick-sided mug. r (Fig. 7. 7., PI. II. 4.) г

6. Iron nail, rectangular intersection, its head flattened. (Fig. 7. 7.) 17-18. The decoration is perforated, rectangle, girdle clasps (bronze bent plate) and half circular intersection bronze wire spirals, shorter-longer pieces (broken). The two clasps of the girdle would have hold together 6 rows of springs above each other, and that provided a girdle, which was 62 cm wide. (Fig. 7. 8-9., PI. II. 6.) New material was brought from the site to the Museum at Pécs in 1966. According to the information by its finder, the latter graves could have been about 30-50 m from the earlier found Grave 1 and 2, East direction. Their bones were decayed, the sand miner could not give any clue to their orientation. We can be driven to the conclusion, that the finds belong to two, or eventually three graves (1 male and 2 female, or 1 extraordinarily rich female grave.) 1-4. Glass paste beads, bird's eye-pattern, star, cylinder (flattened), disc- and melon-shaped, yellow and blue-colored. (Fig. 8. 1-4., PI. III. 1.) 5-6. Bronze crossbow fibulae of the Certosa-type,