Marisia - Maros Megyei Múzeum Évkönyve 34-35. (2014-2015)
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Medieval Weapons from Bistra Muresului 131 Fig. 11. Horse equipment from Bistra Murefului. 1-3: bits; 4: currycomb fragment; 5-10: buckles (Drawn by M. Ferenczi) Dating the find In the absence of archaeological and stratigraphic observations, we attempted to date our finds by means of geographically closer and farther situate analogies, as well as on the basis of well dated objects from the assemblage. We have mentioned the fact that our preserved weapons, spearheads, arrowheads and boltheads are unsuitable for a more refined and precise dating. Most of them can be characteristic for the entire period from the 12-13th century to the 16th. The spearheads can be dated to the 12-15th century based on analogies from the Carpathian Basin115 or further regions.116 Tanged arrowheads’ chronological frames are also large, a 115 A comprehensive and more thorough collection and systematization in the Carpathian Basin took place in Slovakia: Ruttkay 1976, 299-301, Hungary: Kovács 1984, 260-261. 116 East and Northeast from the Carpathian, see: Kirpicnikov 1966, 3, 10-11, fig.l;Nadolski 1956; Bron 1978,61,83-84. step forward might be brought by their increase in number and detailed analysis. Tanged arrowheads from Bistra have closer parallels mostly from the Árpád period,117 but one can find proof of their later existence as well. The socketed leaf or lanceshaped heads are formally diverse, but the different types were in use for a long time, therefore their dating capacity is limited. Barbed arrowheads have practically occurred throughout the Middle Ages,118 they are impossible to date without information on their finding circumstances. The smaller, tanged, square cross section arrowheads are mostly dated to the 12—13th century, but there are examples for their later existence. It is obvious that although boltheads are mostly the decisive finds of the 14-15* century,119 they were used later as well. 117 Székely 2000, Kovács 1986, 273-275. 118 Nadolski 1956, 64-66, Tab. XXX; Medvedev 1966, 92. Tab. 13/2, 97. Tab. 18/2, 98. Tab. 20/2, 102. Tab. 23/1; Zimmermann 2000, 64-66. 119 Medvedev 1966,114, Tab. 31.
