Articles
New specimen of an Early Iron Age brooch type from Western Transdanubia: A stray find from Simaság
Published 2025-01-24
Keywords
- Early Iron Age,
- clothing accessory,
- brooch,
- western Hungary
How to Cite
Ilon, G. (2025). New specimen of an Early Iron Age brooch type from Western Transdanubia: A stray find from Simaság. Dissertationes Archaeologicae, 3(12), 223–229. https://doi.org/10.17204/dissarch.2024.223
Abstract
The museum obtained the two-loop nodular (or knobbed) bow brooch, a stray find, in 1970. The jewellery, 66 mm long and weighing 22.6 g, is still in good condition today. Its shape is a mixture of Types 6a and 6d in Stane Gabrovec’s system, which were in vogue in the Ha C1–2 phases, i.e., from the mid-8th to the mid-7th centuries BC. In lack of a find context and accompanying finds, the artefact in focus cannot be dated more precisely within this period; the topographical position of its findspot fills an empty area in the foregrounds of the Eastern Alps.