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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Scabbard Length. 74.1 cm. Breadth. Cca 4 cm. Mouth. Type A 2 , normal campanulate variety, 1.3 cm. Midrib. Less prominent (?). Reinforce. Frontal reinforce (?), two discs with closed frontal reinforce-clamps. Loop, loop-plates. ?. Chape-end. Type Ai, with in-pointed finials, cca 6 cm long. Design, lai; Nav. I/III+HSS, phase 2. Sword Total length. 88.1 cm. Total length of hilt. Cca 14 cm. Breadth of blade. 4.8 cm. The tang is straight. Folded in two. Grave goods See Cat. no. 113. Literature. See Cat. no. 113. 113. DOBOVA (Slovenia). Spearhead. Cremation grave 6. BPM, inv. no. P 2271 (PL 113). Spearhead Bayonet form blade with midrib. Incised decoration on the short socket. Length. 33.1 cm. Breadth of blade. 4.8 cm. Length of socket. 12.5 cm. Design. HSS, phase 2, on the socket. Grave goods Twisted, punched sword chain; spear butt; three wire fibulae, two have an internal, one an external spring-mechanism, all are four-coiled; urn. La Tène C 2 . Literature. Guätin (1982) 202, Fig. 6.3 (sword); Guätin (1983b) Pl. XC. Fig. 1.1-9; Rapin (1988) 124 f, Fig. 62.5 (spearhead, "forme baionette, Type IVa"); Megaw-Megaw (1989a) 132, Fig. 197, far right (sword). 114. DOBOVA (Slovenia). Scabbard with its sword. Cremation grave 10. BPM (PL 109.2, 110.1). Scabbard Length. Cca 81.3 cm. Breadth. 4.9 cm. Mouth. Type A 2 , normal campanulate variety, 1.2 cm. Midrib. Broad, salient. Overlaps. Front over back. Reinforce. Frontal reinforce, with closed reinforce clamps. Loop. Type HIB, 1.4 cm long by 1.7 cm broad. Loopplates. Rounded with rivets. Chape-clamps. Two rosettes, ornamented with triskels. Chapebridge. Straight. Chape-end. Type Aii, 4.9 cm, with in-curved finials. Total length of chape. 24.5 cm. Design, lai; Nav. III+HSS, phase 2. Sword Total length. 95.3 cm. Total length of hilt. 14 cm. Breadth of blade. 3.5 cm. Hiltend. Fits to a normal campanulate mouth, ornamented with vertical hatching. The tang features two discs and is surmounted by a discbutton. Probably folded in three. Grave goods See Cat. no. 115. Literature. GuStin (1981) Figs 1.2 and 2-5; Gu§tin (1982) Fig. 6.1. 115. DOBOVA (Slovenia). Scabbard with its sword. Cremation grave 10. BPM (Pis 109.3, 110.2, 111, 112). Bronze scabbard Only the upper part and the chape-end of the scabbard have survived. Present maximum length. Upper part, front plate, 7.5 cm, upper part, reverse 12 cm, lower part, 14 cm. Mouth. Type B, 1.5 cm. Midrib. None. Overlaps. Front over back (?). Reinforce. Bilateral, with Y-type at the back, closed reinforce clamps. Loop. Type HIB, 1 cm long by 1.4 cm broad. Loop-plates. Shield-shaped, with rivets. Chapeclamps. ?. Chape-bridge. Straight. Chape-end. Total length of chape. 14 cm. Design, lbi; SSS. Iron sword Total length. Cca 95.2 cm. Total length of hilt. 14 cm. Breadth of blade. 4.2 cm. Mark. Boar stamp (?) on the left side of the blade. Two flat discs on the hilt, the tang is surmounted by a disc-button. Grave goods Scabbard with its sword (Cat. no. 114); twisted, punched iron sword chain; band-shaped shield boss; spearhead (Rapin's Type VI, "forme classique avec douille moyenne" , Domaradzki's group III); knife; shears; solid iron ring, anklet (?); fragment of iron fibula with four-coiled, external spring-mechanism; pottery vessel. La Tène C 2 . Literature. Guätin (1982) Fig. 6.2; Guätin (1981) Figs 1.2 (sword) and 2-5 (grave goods); Rapin (1988) 71, Fig. 38.4 (shield-boss), 120, Fig. 5,.4, 122 (spearhead). 116. DOBOVA (Slovenia). Scabbard with its sword. Cremation grave 23. BPM (PL 114). Scabbard Breadth. Cca 5.9 cm. Mouth. Type B, 2.6 cm, lower border is of type 7, ornamented with
