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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Total length of chape. 14 cm. Design, lai; Nav. I. Sword Total length. 71 cm. Total length of hilt. 12.5 cm. Breadth. 4.5 cm. The tang is surmounted by a flat disc with a rivet. Folded in five. Literature. Unpublished. 65. SZOB (County Pest.) Scabbard with its sword. Stray find. MNM, inv. no. 34.929.1 (PI. 68). Scabbard Fragmented in four. Present maximum length. Upper part, 16 cm, lower part, 15.5 cm. Breadth. 4.9 cm. Mouth. Type A 2 , high campanulate variety. Midrib. Rather broad and salient. Overlaps. Front over back, probably overlapped to its tip. Reinforce. None. Loop. Missing, (probably Type IA, bandshaped, judging by the distance between the loop-plates). Loop-plates. Round, the upper one is ill-preserved, both have a rivet in their mid. Chape-clamp. Straight. Chape-end. Type Kosd D, one half is missing. Total length of chape. 8.4 cm. Design, lai; Nav. I. Sword Length. 67.6 cm. Length of hilt. 9 cm. Breadth. 4 cm. Hilt-end. Straight. Literature. Hunyady (1957) 158; De Navarro (1972) 46, 112, 116, 118 f, 225, PI. CXXXIII.lac; KKM, Cat. no. 85; Petres (1982) 164, 171, Fig. 13; Szabó (1989b) 124 f, Fig. 3.3. 66. SZOB (County Pest). Scabbard with its sword. Stray find. MNM, inv. no. 37.1939.34 (PI. 69). Scabbard Incomplete. Present maximum length. 33 cm. Breadth. 4.5 cm. Mouth. Type A 2 , normal campanulate variety. Midrib. Less prominent. Overlaps. Front over back. Reinforce. None. Loop. Type HIB. Loop-plates. Rounded, with two large rivets. Chape-clamps, chape-bridge, chape-end. Missing. Design, lai; probably Nav. III. Sword Total length. 83.3 cm. Total length of hilt. 13 cm. Breadth. 4 cm. Charinage. Shagreened with ring-punch over the upper part. Literature. Unpublished. 67. KOSD (County Nógrád). Scabbard with its sword. Stray find. MNM, inv. no. 9.1950.15 (PL 70). Scabbard Present maximum length. Cca 51 cm. Breadth. 4.8 cm. Mouth. Type A 2 , subcampanulate variety, 1.5 cm. Midrib. None. Overlaps. Front over back. Reinforce. Frontal form, with two plastic discs (for inlay ?). Loop. Type II, 2 cm long by 1.3 cm broad. Loopplates. Rounded, with rivets. Chape-clamps. None visible. Chape-bridge. Straight. Chapeend. Type Kosd A 2 , ornamented with radially hatched lines. Total length of chape. 9 cm. Design, lbi; SSS (imitation) + Plastic Style. Sword Total length. Cca 72 cm. Total length of hilt. 12 cm. Breadth of blade. 4 cm. The tang is surmounted by a large knob, encircled with grooving. Folded in three. Literature. Unpublished. 68. SZOB (County Pest). Scabbard with its sword. Stray find. MNM, inv. no. 14.1950.38 (Pis 71-72, 111. VII). Scabbard Present maximum length. 21 cm, 27.3 cm, fragmented in two. Reconstructed length. 59.3 cm. Breadth. 4.6 cm. Mouth. Type B, 2 cm. Midrib. None. Overlaps. Front over back. Reinforce. Frontal form, with two plastic decorated discs and side clamps. Loop. Type II, 2.7 cm long by 1.5 cm broad. Loop-plates. Rounded, with large protruding rivets. Chapeclamps. Round, domed, with radially incised lines. Chape-bridge. Straight. Chape-end. Type Kosd A 2 , with radially incised lines on its rosettes. Total length of chape. 9 cm. Design. lbi; HSS + Plastic Style. Sword Total length. 68.8 cm. Total length of hilt. 12.5 cm. Breadth of blade. 3.8 cm. The squarish tang ends in a large plastic decorated knob, adorned with a mask looking backward on the reverse. Folded in two. Literature. Szabó (1982) 178, 184, Figs 4-5; Szabó (1989a) 20-21, PI. 2.1. 69. SZOB (County Pest). Iron spearhead. Stray find. MNM, inv. no. 147.1910.63 (PI. 73).
