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

268 CHAPTER 3 or even wood.430 This mode of suspension spread from the Late Roman period (3rd century AD) and remained in use un ...

Edged Weapons 269 Pyramid-shaped spatha buttons cast of copper alloy (S.2, fig. 98/2)439 were generally used for suspension of t ...

270 CHAPTER 3 Pyramid-shaped spatha buttons are found singly442 or in pairs on the blade of the spatha, usually c. 10 cm from th ...

Edged Weapons 271 of the 6th and first half of the 7th century, as demonstrated by western finds452 and burials from the Carpath ...

272 CHAPTER 3 of Pannonia459 and their use continued throughout the Avar Age.460 Avar examples were usually decorated with inter ...

Edged Weapons 273 mount can be interpreted as a starting point for a strap.467 This spatha belt type was used from the first thi ...

274 CHAPTER 3 Swords with P-shaped suspension loops spread during the second half of the 6th century throughout Eurasia (map 51) ...

Edged Weapons 275 These suspension loops were decorated with various ornaments and meth- ods, among them the most popular were t ...

276 CHAPTER 3 (fig. 100/12–15),487 glass inlay (fig. 100/16),488 and stamped foil,489 as well as on plain, undecorated examples ...

Edged Weapons 277 Figure 100 P-shaped suspension loops: S.4.a: 1. Mór–Akasztódomb, grave No. 25 (Török 1954, 56–58, 4. kép, IX. ...

278 CHAPTER 3 common among the loops of type F.4.a.498 All of the known examples were found in the Great Hungarian Plain and are ...

Edged Weapons 279 The third variant of P-shaped suspension loops is characterised by a shaft that is longer than the length of t ...

280 CHAPTER 3 Figure 102 P-shaped suspension loops: S.4.c: 1. Győr–Téglavető-dűlő, grave No. 755 (Börzsönyi 1906, 320–321; Fetti ...

Edged Weapons 281 This variant (S.4.c) is evenly distributed, with examples found in both Transdanubia505 and the Great Hungaria ...

282 CHAPTER 3 Figure 103 Triple-arched suspension loops (S.6): 1. Kunágota (László 1938; László 1950; László 1955, LIX. t. 1; Bó ...

Edged Weapons 283 are dated to the second third of the 7th century,514 and are a mixture of Early Avar traditions and new Middle ...

284 CHAPTER 3 similar suspension loops are known from the Altay Mountains and date to the 9th century from the site of Srostki.5 ...

Edged Weapons 285 II and Constantine IV, minted between 654 and 659, were found in the grave of Gyenesdiás,523 while the burial ...

286 CHAPTER 3 continued in use during the first half of the Late phase before disappearing by the second half of the 8th century ...

Edged Weapons 287 were decorated with various methods: glass inlay (fig. 97/4–6),534 the Animal Style II (fig. 97/4),535 granula ...