Vol. 3 No. 12 (2024)
Articles

Some remarks on the absolute chronology of heraldic belt fittings

Anton Strokov
Institute of Archaeology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
Bence Gulyás
Hungarian National Museum Public Collection Centre, Budapest, Hungary
Péter Somogyi
Independent researcher, Feldkirch, Austria
Galina Kamelina
State Historical Museum, Moscow, Russia

Published 2025-01-24

Keywords

  • Borisovo,
  • Central Europe,
  • Eastern Europe,
  • heraldic belt fittings,
  • radiocarbon dating

How to Cite

Strokov, A., Gulyás, B., Somogyi, P., & Kamelina, G. (2025). Some remarks on the absolute chronology of heraldic belt fittings. Dissertationes Archaeologicae, 3(12), 393–416. https://doi.org/10.17204/dissarch.2024.393

Abstract

The article examines the absolute chronology of heraldic belt sets. The main challenges researchers face with these belt sets are their wide geographic distribution and the low number of assemblages with determinable calendar age. The radiocarbon dates of wood samples from Grave 62 of the Borisovo cemetery (northeastern Black Sea region) and the find material of the burial are also published here for the first time. Additionally, we collected radiocarbon dates from other graves with similar heraldic belt fittings to estimate their absolute chronological positions.