belt-fitting
- Museum number
- 1926,0511.15
- Description
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Tinned-copper alloy belt mount, similar to no 16: cast circular; high beaded rim enclosing chip-carved cruciform decoration with round-ended arms and 2 circles in centre; two attachment rivets; hollow back.
- Production date
- 8thC(late)-9thC(early)
- Dimensions
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Diameter: 2.30 centimetres
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Weight: 11.89 grammes
- Curator's comments
- Comment from Kidd, Haith & Ager 'Summary Catalogue' (draft MS) [comment relating to registration nos. 1926,0511.15-16]
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 252 with registration nos. 1926,0511.5 and 1926,0511.9-10
Published (the object):
BÖRZSYÖNYI A. 1904. Győri sírmezó a régibb középkorból, Archæologiai Értesítő XXIV, Budapest, p. 18 grave 252:1 and 2
HAMPEL J. 1905. Alterthümer des Frühen Mittelalters in Ungarn I-III, Brunswick, vols. II, p. 825 and III, pl. 487:1-2
Fettich, N., 1943, ‘Győr a népvándorláskorban’, in E. Lovas (ed.), Győr Története a Tizenharmadik Század Közepéig. Győr, 1943, p. 23 grave 252, pl. 29:26-7
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
- 1926,0511.15
