Szabó Miklós, Petres F. Éva: Decorated weapons on the La Tene Iron Age in the Carpathian Basin. (Inventaria Praehistorica Hungariae 5; Budapest, 1992)
Abbreviations - Czecho-Slovakia
79. POTTENBRUNN-RATZERSDORF. Scabbard with its sword. Inhumation grave 562. St. Pölten, Stadtmuseum, inv. no. Gr. 562/Fn 9 (PL 82). Scabbard Length. 69 cm. Breadth. 6.4 cm. Mouth. Ai, straight variety, 1.8 cm. Midrib. Narrow, less prominent. Overlaps. Front over back. Reinforce. Frontal reinforce, two domed iron rosettes inlaid with bone or coral, and gold. A short bar connects the rosettes. Loop. Type IIIA, 2.8 cm long by 1.5 cm broad. Loop-plates. The upper one is rounded, the lower one is tongue-shaped, both have central rivets. Chapeclamps. Round, domed, ornamented. Chapebridge. Straight, resembling a bilateral reinforce together with the chape-clamps. Chape-end. Type Kosd D, with decorated discs on both sides. Design. 2ai+4b; Nav. 1+ mount ornamented: iron openwork mount with gold leaf backing under the reinforce and the chapebridge. Sword Total length. 79 cm. Total length of hilt. 10 cm. Breadth of blade. 6 cm. Hilt-end. A squarish iron frame ornamented with recumbent S-motifs. The tang is surmounted by a knob. Literature. Neugebauer-Gattringer (1984) 101, Fig. 26; Megaw-Megaw (1989b) 544-545, Fig. 1; Megaw-Megaw (1989c) 98. 80. POTTENBRTJNN-RATZERSDORF. Scabbard with its sword. Inhumation grave 400. St Pölten, Stadtmuseum, inv. no. Gr.400/Fn 9 (PL 81.2) Scabbard Fragmented in two. Length. 42 cm + 14 cm. Reconstructed length. Cca. 69 cm. Breadth. 4.8 cm. Mouth. Type Ai, subcampanulate variety, 1 cm. Midrib. Salient. Overlaps. Front over back (?). Reinforce. None. Loop. Type II, 1.3 cm long by 1 cm broad. Loop-plates. Round, ornamented. Chape-clamps. Missing. Chapebridge. Straight. Chape-end. Type Kosd C. Design, lai+5; Nav. I+HSS (background to the dragon pair, and on the loop-plates.) Sword Total length. 84.4 cm. Total length of hilt. 10 cm. Breadth of blade. 3.8 cm. Hilt-end. Fits to a subcampanulate mouth. Literature. Neugebauer-Gattringer (1984) 101, 127, Fig. 25; Megaw-Megaw (1989c) 97-98. CZECHO-SLOVAKIA 81. DRN A /DARNYA-BIRINYI PART (District Rimská Sobota/Rimaszombat). Scabbard with its sword. From a disturbed burial. RGM, inv. no. 64/62 (PL 83). Scabbard Fragmented in two. Length. Upper part, 19 cm. lower part, 15 cm. Breadth. 5.5 cm. Mouth. Type B, 1.8 cm. Midrib. Broad, salient. Overlaps. Front over back. Reinforce. None. Loop. Type II, 2.2 cm long by 1.5 cm broad. Loop-plates. Round, with rivets. Chape-clamps. Round. Chape-bridge. Straight. Chape-end. Type Kosd B, with triskels on the two rosettes. Total length of chape. 14.8 cm. Chagrinage. Shagreened with a row of dotted circles on the left side of the scabbard and on both sides of the chape, and five (originally perhaps six) dotted circle punch marks between the dragon pair motif. The midrib is framed with wavy lines. Design. lai+4a; Nav. II. Sword Total length. 74.5 cm. Total length of hilt. Cca 9.8 cm. Breadth of blade. Cca 5 cm. Hiltend. Fits to a Type B mouth. Folded in two. Grave goods It proved impossible to separate the grave goods from 3 or 4 graves, which included two different sword chains, a spearhead, a spear-butt, a band-shaped shield boss, a "Hiebmesser", scissors, a wire fibula with bentback foot and another sword. Literature. Balasa (1963) 689, Fig. 227; Zachar (1974b) 60, 62, Figs 4-5; Petres (1982) 163 f, 170, Fig. 10; Zachar (1987) PL 34-36. 82. DRftA/DARNYA-BIRINYI PART (District Rimská Sobota/Rimaszombat). Scabbard with its sword. From a cremation grave RGM (Pis 84-85) Scabbard Length. 68.3 cm.Breadth. 6.7 cm. Mouth. Type B, 1.8 cm. Midrib. None. Overlaps. Front over back. Reinforce. Frontal reinforce, two triangular sheets with engraved ornamentation, closed, decorated reinforce clamps. Loop. Type II, 2.5 cm long by 1.5 cm broad, ornamented.
