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

Polearms 137

This spearhead was described and studied by Ján Eisner235 and László Kovács.236

According to Kovács it belonged to the group of so-called ‘Stollenlanzen’ (the

Swiss name for hooked spearheads), and dated it to the end of the 7th and

235 Eisner 1934; Eisner 1952, 119–120.
236 Kovács 1979, 98, 104.

Figure 52 Spearheads of type P.IV.A/1 (Hooked spears) 1. Bratislava–Devinska Nová Ves–A
Tehel’ňa, grave No. 524 (Eisner 1952, 119–120, Obr. 71/1.) (drawing of M. Husár);

2. Söjtör–Petőfi utca, grave No. 12r (Szőke 1994a, 10. tábla 1.); 3. Bargen, grave
   No. 8 (after Koch 1982.).