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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Sword Total length. Cca 99 cm. Total length of hilt. 12 cm. Breadth. 4.2 cm. Hilt end. The squarish tang is ringed twice and is surmounted by a disc button. Folded in six. Literature. Hunyady (1957) 28 f; Petres (1982) 166, 173, Fig. 19; Horváth (1987) 84. 43. MAGYARS ZERDAHELY-HOMOKI DŰLÖ (County Zala). Scabbard with its sword. Cremation grave 30. NTGyM, inv. no. 75.53.1 (Pis 49-50). Scabbard Length. 63.2 cm. Breadth. 4.5 cm. Mouth. Type A 2 , normal campanulate variety. Midrib. Broad. Overlaps. Front over back. Reinforce. None. Loop. Missing. Chape-clamps. Round. Chape-bridge. Straight. Chape-end. Type Kosd B, ornamented on both sides. Total length of chape. 11 cm. Chagrinage. Stippled, with a ring punch over the reverse. Design. 4a; HSS, phase 1. Folded in three. Sword Total length. 74.2 cm. Total length of hilt. 11 cm. Breadth of blade. 4.2 cm. Folded in three. Grave goods Iron spearhead, of willow-leaf form with short socket and two dome-headed rivets at the base of the socket; twisted iron sword chain; iron anklet with incised decoration; iron shield handle and mounts; binding strips of semicircular cross-section; iron fibula; fragments of knob-footed wire fibula with external cord; wheel-thrown brown pot; wheel-thrown greyish bowl. La Tène B 2 . Literature. KKM, 40, Cat. no. 70, Fig. 70; Petres-Szabó (1985) 92 f, Figs 4-5 (grave goods), PI. V.2 (sword); Horváth (1987) 93 f, XIII. la-c, 2a-b; Petres-Szabó (1986) 268, 269, Fig. 10 (chape-end), Figs 11-12 (grave-goods). 44. JMAGYARSZERDAHELY-HOMOKI DŰLŐ (County Zala). Scabbard with its sword. Grave 63. NTGyM, inv. no. 92.1.1 (PL 51). Scabbard Present maximum length. 24.5 cm, fragmented in four. Breadth. 5 cm. Mouth. Type A 2 , subcampanulate variety. Midrib. Broad. Overlaps. Back over front (?). Reinforce. Ttype, on the reverse. Loop. Type Ic, arched, ornamented. Loop-plates. The upper loop-plate is arched, the lower one is shield-shaped, both are decorated. Chape-clamps, chape-bridge, chapeend. Missing. Chagrinage. Three pairs of ring punches enclosed by the pattern. Design. 2 ai +5; HSS. Sword Total length. 52 cm. Total length of hilt. 13.5 cm. Breadth. 4 cm. The tang is ringed twice and is surmounted by a knob. Folded in three. Grave goods Large bronze fibula with bent-back foot ornamented with two inlaid knobs, the springmechanism has an external cord; badly corroded and fragmented iron fibula with knob-decorated bent-back foot. La Tène Ci. Literature. Horváth (1991) 45. MUHI-KOCSMADOMB (County Borsod). Scabbard with its sword. Grave 23. MHOM, inv. no. 71.41.1 (PL 52.1). Scabbard Incomplete. Present maximum length. 42.8 cm. Breadth. 4.5 cm. Mouth. Type Ai, straight-sided variety (perhaps reshaped). Midrib. None. Overlaps. Probably front over back. Loop. Type IA, band-shaped, or Type II, the upper part is missing. Loop-plates. The lower loop-plate is round and small, the upper one is missing. Chape-clamps, chape-bridge. None. Chape-end. Missing. Design. lb 2 ; Nav. II. Sword Present maximum length. 71.2 cm. Breadth. 4 cm. Present maximum length of hilt. 7.5 cm, its end is broken. Grave goods Iron spearhead; "Hiebmesser". Literature. KKM, 48 f, Cat. no. 89; Petres (1982) 162, Fig. 4; Szabó (1989b) 120 f, Fig. 1.3; Hellebrandt (1990). 46. NÓGRÁDMARCAL (County Nógrád). Scabbard. Possibily from a disturbed burial. SzKFM, inv. no. 67.39.3 (PL 45.2). Scabbard Only the upper part has survived. Present maximum length. 5.1 cm. Breadth. 4.3 cm. Mouth. Subtriangular form. Midrib. None. Overlaps. Front over back (?). Design, lbi, SSS, (imitation). Literature. Hellebrandt (1990).
