Edged Weapons 163
A double-edged sword with a three-lobed inlaid pommel and short, wide,
rounded crossguard, was found at Szigetvár as a stray find. This sword was
classified as Petersen type T by Attila Kiss who dated it to the 10th century,23
although the sword is probably dated to the second half of the 8th to first half
of the 9th century, as demonstrated by László Kovács.24 The sword belongs
to the 4th combination type of Geibig, and dated to the first half of the 9th
century.25
The fourth example was found as a stray find in the area of an Avar-age
cemetery at Brodski Drenovac. However, it belongs to Petersen’s ‘X’ type, with
its semicircular pommel and long, straight crossguard,26 which is dated to the
10th century and therefore cannot belong to the Avar-age cemetery.
The sword of grave No. 124 at Želovce is dated by its cast bronze belt-set
(rectangular mounts with griffons)27 to the 2nd stage of the Late Avar period,
in the first half of the 8th century. The sword was dated after 680 by Frauke
Stein based on the typology of Behmer but could still have been in use until
the middle of the 8th century.28 According to the Central European and
Scandinavian classification this sword belongs to Petersen B type,29 the pom-
mel can be described as the Niederrahmstadt–Dettingen–Schwabmühlhausen
type of F. Stein,30 while the sword belongs to the 1st combination type of Alfred
Geibig which is dated by the Pfullingen type spearheads to the first half of the
8th century, although a later date (second half of the 8th century) is equally
possible.31
The sword from Brodski Drenovac32 has a long, straight crossguard and
semicircular flat pommel, and belongs to the Petersen X type.33 Geibig clas-
sified swords of X type within his 12th combination type, and dated them
between the second half of the 9th and the end of the 10th century,34 meaning
that this weapon belongs to a later period. The sword was found as a stray find,
however, its connection to the cemetery is unclear.
23 Kiss 1983, 289–290; Kiss 1985, 303; Kiss 1990, 204.
24 Kovács 1994–95, 176. Abb. 12/4.
25 Combination type 4.3.2.2 (Geibig 1991, 37). For its dating: Geibig 1991, 141–142. 151.
26 Vinski-Gasparini – Ercegović 1958, 144–145. 157. Tabl. XV/8.
27 Čilinská 1973, 57, Taf. XXII.
28 Behmer 1939, 190–194; Stein 1968, 239; Zábojník 1978, 195.
29 Petersen 1919.
30 Stein 1967, 9.
31 Geibig 1991, 25–31. Abb. 2, 140.
32 Vinski-Gasparini – Ercegović 1958, 144–145. 157. Tabl. XV/8.
33 Petersen 1919.
34 Geibig 1991, 56–60, 144–145.