Avar-Age Polearms and Edged Weapons. Classification, Typology, Chronology and Technology

208 CHAPTER 3 along the Ipoly river155 and in the Košice Basin,156 though none are known from the Transtisia region (map 35). Cu ...

Edged Weapons 209 Strongly curved blades (E.III.C) are less numerous, their curvature quo- tient is higher than 2.5% and their s ...

210 CHAPTER 3 Figure 81 Strongly curved sabres (E.III.C) 1. Gyenesdiás–Algyenes, Bartók Béla és Hámán Kató utca, grave No. 64 (M ...

Edged Weapons 211 of the Middle phase (eight examples)168 but some are dated to the Late phase,169 suggesting that curved blades ...

212 CHAPTER 3 Most of the measured false edges are relatively short, though a number are long enough for them to have functioned ...

Edged Weapons 213 Site, grave No. Length of false edge (mm) Reference Želovce grave No. 79 100 Čilinská 1973, 49, Taf. XV/1. Kis ...

214 CHAPTER 3 edge on early Hungarian or Late Nomadic sabres.173 A false edge longer than 15 cm could be measured on only nine s ...

Edged Weapons 215 1.4 Seaxes (E.IV) The study of seaxes is a neglected field of Avar weaponry, with very little research having ...

216 CHAPTER 3 predecessors of sabres.177 In addressing these problems, the study of weapon combinations and the nature of their ...

Edged Weapons 217 Site No.PublicationExcavation report Anthr. data Grave goods Preservation Place in grave Metallogr. Jászapáti– ...

218 CHAPTER 3 Research on seaxes started relatively late in the Carpathian Basin. Seaxes in Avar cemeteries were first identifie ...

Edged Weapons 219 He regarded some of them as Avar copies of Frankish products.182 Seaxes are treated as Carolingian imports in ...

220 CHAPTER 3 Figure 82 Short and narrow seaxes (E.IV.A–B) 1. Környe, grave No. 18 (Salamon – Erdélyi 1971, 15.); 2. Környe, gra ...

Edged Weapons 221 these weapons were also found in Gepid cemeteries in Transylvania (map 37).188 Their appearance has therefore ...

222 CHAPTER 3 seaxes are often buried together with spathae as a secondary weapon,189 this association being well documented in ...

Edged Weapons 223 Narrow seaxes remained in use from the second half of the 6th to first half of the 7th century across the Mero ...

224 CHAPTER 3 1.4.1.3 Broad Seax (‘Breitsax’: E.IV.C) Broad seaxes (‘Breitsaxe’) are edged weapons with a blade width of more th ...

Edged Weapons 225 phase by their belt-sets,208 the chronology of these finds and their geographi- cal position emphasising the c ...

226 CHAPTER 3 The main distribution area of the heavy variant is in the western half of the Carpathian Basin, mainly in its nort ...

Edged Weapons 227 1.4.1.4 Long Seax (‘Langsax’: EIV.D) The term long seax is not strandardized in the literature, since various ...