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1.1.6.3 The Length of the Blade and Socket is Equal (P.I.F/3)
The blade of this variant is especially narrow and does not reach even the
width of 2 cm, the edges are parallel, although the blade is a little broader
above the neck (figs. 31/3–4, 32/1–3). The existence of the neck is the main dif-
ference between this variant and the examples of conical spearhead.
Altogether six spearheads belong to this variant,125 half of which were found
in the territory of Slovakia,126 while the other half were found partly in the
Great Hungarian Plain127 or in Transdanubia (map 12).128 The only datable
find129 suggests a date in the Late phase (8th century).
1.2 Conical Spearheads (P.II)
The main characterstic of this form-group is that the socket and blade are not
separated by a neck, with the blade being a continuation of the socket. The
type was first identified by Éva Garam during her analysis of spearheads from
the Tiszafüred cemetery. She considered the type being analoguous to those
spearheads of the Saltovo-Maiaki culture of 8th-9th century Eastern Europe.130
These spearheads are conical in shape, their blade is of quadrangular or cir-
cular cross section, the socket is closed or the socket wings were bent next to
each other. Altogether 51 spearheads belong to this form-group, ten of them
dating to the Early phase, eight examples belong to the Middle phase, while
the majority of spearheads of form-group P.II (33 pieces) are dated to the Late
phase.
125 Bernolákovo grave No. 34 (Kraskovská 1962, 433. tab. VII/19); Bratislava–Devinska Nová
Ves–A–Tehel’ňa grave No. 401 (Eisner 1952, 91–92, Obr. 45/9); Kehida–TSz-major grave
No. 20 (Szőke 2002, 77. 8/g); Košice–Šebastovce grave No. 99 (Budinský-Krička – Točík
1991, 27–28, Taf. XV/9); Szárazd (Kovács 2001, 185. 206. 10. kép 4); Tiszafüred–Majoros
grave No. 159 (Garam 1995, 26. Taf. 174); Tiszafüred–Majoros grave No. 313 (Garam 1995, 44,
Taf. 82. Taf. 177).
126 Bernolákovo grave No. 34 (Kraskovská 1962, 433. tab. VII/19); Bratislava–Devinska Nová
Ves–A–Tehel’ňa grave No. 401 (Eisner 1952, 91–92, Obr. 45/9); Košice–Šebastovce grave
No. 99 (Budinský – Krička – Točík 1991, 27–28, Taf. XV/9).
127 Tiszafüred–Majoros grave No. 159 and 313 (Garam 1995, 26. Taf. 174, 44, Taf. 82. Taf. 177).
128 Szárazd (Kovács 2001, 185. 206. 10. kép 4).
129 The grave No. 34 of Bernolákovo is dated from the gilded disk-shaped belt-mounts cast of
bronze, gilded strap-end cast of bronze with flower-decoration, and gilded rectangular
belt-mounts cast of bronze and gilded lobular harness-mount cast of bronze (Kraskovská
1962, 433. tab. VII), all dated to the first half of Late phase.
130 After Pletneva 1967, 160. (Garam 1995, 350).