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

228 CHAPTER 3 development of long seaxes is metallographical examination of their pattern welding.228 228 Herbert Westphal (1991 ...

Edged Weapons 229 Long seaxes are relatively common weapons in the Late Avar Carpathian Basin, with 25 such examples known from ...

230 CHAPTER 3 Long seaxes appeared during the first half of the 8th century in Avar burials,235 and remained in use until the fi ...

Edged Weapons 231 The development of seax blades follows the same general developmental pattern with just some minor differences ...

232 CHAPTER 3 more popular. This distribution suggests that seaxes were not unusual weap- ons for the Avars, despite their being ...

Edged Weapons 233 on the midline. Most of the hilts of Avar edged weapons are positioned on the midline of the blade. The hilts ...

234 CHAPTER 3 Only 19 ring-pommel swords are known from the Carpathian Basin, six of them are double-edged and 11 are single-edg ...

Edged Weapons 235 2.1.2 Spatha Pommels Pommels are mainly used on the end of spatha hilts during the Avar Age. Their classificat ...

236 CHAPTER 3 Pyramid-shaped pommels cast of copper alloy (fig. 86/3) are only known from one Avar-age burial253 but this type i ...

Edged Weapons 237 7 Győr–Téglavető-dűlő grave No. 755 (Börzsönyi 1906, 320–321; Fettich 1943, 38–39, XIV)—Early. 8 Győr–Téglavet ...

238 CHAPTER 3 In a number of cases the upper end of the hilt was covered by a cap made of a metal sheet. Hilt caps are usually m ...

Edged Weapons 239 not numerous,263 while oval hilt caps made of tinned copper alloy are even rarer,264 with those made of iron b ...

240 CHAPTER 3 2.1.4.1 Ring-pendant Ring-pendants connected to an omega-shaped rivet on the hilt are frequent decorations on the ...

Edged Weapons 241 cannot be excluded. Ring-pendants are mostly dated to the Early phase, but some examples are also known from t ...

242 CHAPTER 3 at Kunpeszér is decorated with a rhombic shaped rivet covered with silver sheet,281 and the sword hilt from grave ...

Edged Weapons 243 (fig. 89/3).290 Rivets with big circular iron heads decorate the hilt of the sabre from grave No. 14 at Brodsk ...

244 CHAPTER 3 loops, and was mainly characteristic of the Middle phase, their use disappear- ing during the Late phase. 2.1.5 Hi ...

Edged Weapons 245 cited Sassanian swords with similar hilts from the 7th century,294 although the sword from Šebastovce is dated ...

246 CHAPTER 3 plate (CG.2)300 were also differentiated by László Simon, and dated to the Early phase, though these were only use ...

Edged Weapons 247 most of the cases. The hilt and part of the blade is covered with gold or silver in the shape of an ellyptic-b ...