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Figure 40 Spearheads of type P.III.A: 1. Kölked–Feketekapu A, grave No. 260 (Kiss 1996, 76,
Taf. 57/20.); 2. Kölked–Feketekapu A, grave No. 259 (Kiss 1996, 75–76, Taf. 57/19.);
- Kölked–Feketekapu A, grave No. 474 (Kiss 1996, 127–128, Taf. 86/3.); 4. Kölked–
Feketekapu A, grave No. 386 (Kiss 1996, 106, Taf. 75/10.).
Their use is characteristic of the earliest phase of the Kölked–Feketekapu A
cemetery (figs. 40–41), although they are still present in 7th-century burials.
Their dating is based on the buckles with shield-based prong (‘Schild-
dornschnalle’) and tripartite belt-sets dated to the turn of the 6th–7th century,160
but such weapons were also used during the first161 and second third of the
160 The grave No. 142 of Kölked A cemetery was found together with a buckle with shield-base
pin (‘Schilddornschnalle’) (Kiss 1996, Taf. 41) which is dated to the turn of the 6th–7th
century according to the South German chronology (Siegmund 1999, 172). Analogy of that
buckle was found in the grave No. 116 of Jutas together with a coin of Phocas minted in
608/609 (Kiss 1996, 206): For the coin of Jutas: (Bóna 1982–83, 133; Garam 1992, 141). A
special variant of the buckle type is the so-called ‘Christ-buckle’ which is dated to the end
of the 6th, beginning of the 7th century in Franconia. (Kühn 1970–73, 64–65). Ursula Koch
dated this type to the 7th–8th phase of the South German chronology (580—first third of
the 7th century) (Koch 2001, 87).
161 The spearhead from grave No. 392 of Kölked is dated by its button-shaped belt-mounts
and strap-ends cut out of a sheet (Kiss 1996, 215. Taf. 76).