belt-fitting
- Museum number
- 1926,0511.14
- Description
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Tinned-copper alloy belt hole-guard, similar to no 13: flat V-shaped with rounded, inturned ends and ribbed flanges either side of point; cast foliate decoration with three "leaves" on each arm of V; three attachment rivets.
- Production date
- 680-830 (around)
- Dimensions
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Length: 2.80 centimetres
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Weight: 8.01 grammes
- Curator's comments
- Comment from Kidd, Haith & Ager 'Summary Catalogue' (draft MS) [comment relating to registration nos. 1926,0511.13-14]
Provenance:
The cemetery in the Brickfields at Győr (formerly Raab), Győr Sopron-megye, Hungary. Registration nos. 1926,0511.3-16 are provenanced from pictures in the literature with which they are identical. The provenance (as registration no. 1926,0511.2) given by Mautner has no support; from grave 838 with registration nos. 1926,0511.4, 1926,0511.7-8 and 1926,0511.11-12
Published (the object):
BÖRZSYÖNYI A. 1908. Győri sírmezó a régibb középkorból, Archæologiai Értesítő XXVIII, Budapest, p. 223 grave 838:2
Fettich, N., 1943, ‘Győr a népvándorláskorban’, in E. Lovas (ed.), Győr Története a Tizenharmadik Század Közepéig. Győr, 1943, p. 42 grave 838, pl. 33:3 and 4
See registration no. 1926,0511.2 for details on publications relating to the group
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1926
- Department
- Britain, Europe and Prehistory
- Registration number
- 1926,0511.14
