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

108 CHAPTER 2 Early phase with five examples,137 are present in burials of the Middle phase,138 but are primarily characteristic ...

Polearms 109 Figure 35 Lanceheads of type P.II.B: 1. Komárno–8. Shipyard, grave Nr. 87 (Trugly 1987, 272, Taf. XXX/5.); 2. Kölke ...

110 CHAPTER 2 The blade is longer than the socket. Such weapons are also known from the Late Antique Italy (Invellino) where Vol ...

Polearms 111 third of the 7th century until the second half of the 8th century, and was one of the most long-lived types of the ...

112 CHAPTER 2 Lenticular spearheads were first studied in the cemetery of Környe, where it was compared to Lombard spearheads.15 ...

Polearms 113 Figure 37 Spearheads of type P.III.A: 1. Budakalász–Dunapart, grave No. 223; Budakalász–Dunapart, grave No. 670; 3 ...

114 CHAPTER 2 Figure 38 Spearhead of type P.III.A: Budakalász–Dunapart, grave No. 437 (macro-photos). and Late phases (13 pieces ...

Polearms 115 being found in the Great Hungarian Plain,155 Transylvania156 and Southwestern Slovakia (map 15).157 As a result of ...

116 CHAPTER 2 Figure 40 Spearheads of type P.III.A: 1. Kölked–Feketekapu A, grave No. 260 (Kiss 1996, 76, Taf. 57/20.); 2. Kölke ...

Polearms 117 Figure 41 Spearheads of type P.III.A: 1. Kölked–Feketekapu A, grave No. 65 (Kiss 1996, 33, Taf. 29/4.); 2. Kölked–F ...

118 CHAPTER 2 7th century.162 The spearheads of this type from the Pókaszepetk cemetery are dated to the first half of the 7th c ...

Polearms 119 during this period, but they remained mostly characteristic of Transdanubia (map 15). 1.3.1.1 The Blade is Shorter ...

120 CHAPTER 2 The geographical distribution of this type is evenly spread (map 16), and are found in Transdanubia,169 in the Gre ...

Polearms 121 Figure 44 Spearheads of type P.III.A/2: 1. Radvaň nad Dunajom–Žitavská Tôň, grave No. 33 (Čilinská 1963, 95–96, tab ...

122 CHAPTER 2 ern Slovakia,171 and Transylvania.172 This territorial difference also reflects a chronological division, since al ...

Polearms 123 their blade width is less than 3 cm. The narrower diameter of the socket is of functional importance, since a narro ...

124 CHAPTER 2 1.3.2.2 Narrow Lenticular Spearheads (P.III.B) from the Middle and Late Phase Altogether 12 spearheads with narrow ...

Polearms 125 toward the northern periphery of the Avar Qaganate, with the majority of such spearheads being found in Slovakia (s ...

126 CHAPTER 2 such spearheads are known from the Late phase. The spearhead from grave No. 131 at Košice–Šebastovce (fig. 47/1) m ...

Polearms 127 The first variant (P.III.C/1.e) is characterised by an extremely long, narrow blade with rhombic cross section and ...