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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Literature. Petres (1982) 162, Fig. 3; Szabó (1985a) 60-63, Figs 8-9. 34. KOSD (County Nógrád). Scabbard with its sword. Grave 60. MNM, inv. no. 46.1951.588 (Pis 36-37). Scabbard Present maximum length. 42.5 cm, incomplete, broken in two. Breadth. 4.5 cm. Mouth. Type B, low variety, 0.8 cm. Midrib. Less prominent. Overlaps. Front over back. Reinforce. None. Loop. Type II, 2 cm long by 1 cm broad. Loop-plates. Round, with rivets. Chapeclamps, chape-bridge, chape-end. Missing. Design, lai; Nav. I, the background is infilled with postWaldalgesheim motifs, the mouth has a hatched border. Sword Present maximum length. 57.5 cm. Breadth. 4 cm. Hilt. Broken. Folded in two. Grave goods Iron fibula, with elongated body, incomplete, the spring-mechanism and half of the pin are missing, a disc with incised lines decorates the bent-back foot, incised ornamentation on the catch-plate (MNM, inv. no. 46.1951.592); iron knife. La Tène B 2 /Ci. Literature. Szabó (1989b) 120 f, Fig. 2.6. 35. KOSD (County Nógrád). Scabbard with its sword. Grave 63. MNM, inv. no. 46.951.618 (PI. 38). Scabbard Present maximum length. 25 cm. Breadth. 5 cm. Mouth. Type A 2 , high campanulate variety. Midrib. Narrow. Reinforce. Front over back. Loop. Type IA, band-shaped. Loopplates. Round. Chape-clamps, chape-bridge, chape-end. Missing. Ornamentation, lai; Nav. II. Sword Total length. 69 cm. Total length of hilt. 12 cm. Breadth. 4.8 cm. Hilt. Straight ending. Grave goods Shield boss, band-shaped; knife; spearhead; ring; whetstone. La Tène B 2 Literature. De Navarro (1972) 121, note 2, PI. CXXXVI.la-b. 36. KOSD (County Nógrád). Scabbard with its sword. Stray find. MNM, 22.1928.1 (PI. 39, 111. VI.2). Scabbard Length. 71 cm. Breadth. 5.4 cm. Mouth. Type B. Midrib. Broad, salient. Overlaps. Overlapped to its tip. Reinforce. None. Loop. Type Ic, arched. Loop-plates. Shield-shaped. Chape-clamps, chape-bridge. Missing. Chapeend. Type Kosd C. Design, lai; Nav. I; ill preserved diagonally engraved lines on the reverse (4,2), a pair of lines flanking its mid. Sword Total length. 84 cm. Total length of hilt. 12 cm. Breadth. 5 cm. Hilt. Straight ending. La Tène B 2 Literature. Márton (1933) PL XXVII.b; Hunyady (1957) 167; Szabó (1972) 767, Fig. 4a-b; De Navarro (1972) PI. CXXXV.la-c; KKM, Cat. no. 87; Duval (1977a) 258, Fig. 312; Petres (1982) 164, 177, Fig. 12; Bulard (1982) 157, Fig. 2.4; Szabó (1989b) 124 f, Fig. 3.2. 37. KOSD (County Nógrád). Scabbard with its sword. Stray find. MNM, inv. no. 46.951.850.K and 70.8.3. (the upper part of the scabbard) (Pis 40-41). Scabbard Only the upper part of the front plate and the chape have survived. Present maximum length. 24 cm. Breadth. 5.7 cm. Mouth. Type A 2 , subcampanulate variety, 1.3 cm. Midrib. None. Overlaps. Back over front. Reinforce. None, a straight empty band probably marks the place of a frontal reinforce. Chape-clamps. Round, domed in its centre, ornamented with radially hatched lines. Chape-bridge. Straight, 0.4 cm. Chape-end. Type Kosd C. Total length of chape. 12.5 cm. Design. lbi+2c; HSS, phase 1. Sword Total length. 78 cm. Total length of hilt. 11.5 cm. Breadth of blade. 5 cm. The tang has a wing like terminal and a large knob. Folded in two. Literature. Szabó (1982) 184, Fig. 2. 38. KÖLESD-LENCSEPUSZTA (County Tolna). Pseudo-anthropoid hilted sword. Stray find. SzWMM, inv. no. 83.1.49 (PL 42). Scabbard Bronze hilt with iron blade. The hilt is composed of four parts, the central spine is somewhat longer, the head is a plain knob. Yshaped, stylised arms and legs each of which
