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

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Figure 24 Lanceheads of type P.I.B/2: 1. Oroszlány I. grave No. 18 (Sós 1958, 111, Abb. 22.); 2. Cikó,
grave No. 109 (Wosinsky 1896, 902, CCI. tábla; Kovrig 1955b, 167; Kiss – Somogyi 1984,
45, 9. tábla 7.); 3. Pókaszepetk–Mesterföldek, Avar utca, grave No. 332 (Sós – Salamon
1995, 166–167, Fig. XX).


age length: 30 cm). This variant is only known from Transdanubia (fig. 24/2),58


and it can be dated to the transition between the Early and Middle phase as


verified by the grave goods of burial No. 332 from the Pókaszepetk cemetery


(fig. 24/3).59


58 Cikó grave No. 109 (Wosinsky 1896, 902; CCI. t.; Kovrig 1955b, 167; Kiss – Somogyi 1984, 45.



  1. tábla 7); Pókaszepetk grave No. 332 (Sós – Salamon 1995, 166–167. Pl. XX).
    59 Sós – Salamon 1995, 64–65, 67, 167, Pl. XX/1, Pl. LXXXI/4. The dating is based on a Byzantine
    purse-buckle with animals cast of copper alloy from the second third of the 7th century

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