Incomplete Archaeologies by Unknown

Author:Unknown
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
ISBN: 9781785701160
Publisher: Casemate Publishers & Book Distributors, LLC
Published: 2016-03-30T16:00:00+00:00

Fig. 5.2. Sheet bronze helmet from Brezje pri Trebelnem Tumulus XII, Grave 37 (image courtesy of the Naturhistorisches Museum Wien)

Tumulus XIII

Of 54 graves in Tumulus XIII, four contained the most varied artifacts representing animals. Grave 6 is the burial of a probable adult female, buried with a bronze drum-shaped pendant with suspended attachments depicting avian figures (Fig. 5.3). This grave also contained a bronze fibula, two bronze anklets, two bracelets, two earrings, 12 glass and 38 amber beads, and two clay vessels (Kromer 1959, 29–30, pl. 35; Dular and Križ 1990, 542). Grave 8 had a repaired belt plate that portrayed only animals, though it is difficult to interpret because of significant repairs that obscure the original design (Kromer 1959, 29–31, pls 36–7; Dular and Križ 1990, 542). This belt plate comprised four parts from what were originally two different belt plates riveted together. From left to right, the first panel shows the back legs of a possible carnivore,5 with a bird on its back. The next piece is the hind part of an ungulate, with the leg of another ungulate above it. The final figural panel shows a stag, likely a red deer based on the morphology of the antlers (Fig. 5.4; Kromer 1959, 30–1, pl. 36.5; Turk 2005, 49). That the repair obscures the original design and that two separate belt plates were combined seem to indicate that it may not have been the design that was of central importance at the time of the repair (Turk 2005, 23, 49). Also deposited in this grave were the associated bronze belt attachments, an iron socketed axe and two iron spearheads, two bronze Certosa fibulae, and three ceramic vessels (Kromer 1959, 30–1; Dular and Križ 1990, 542; Turk 2005, 49). Grave 30 contained a footed vessel as well as a separate ceramic appliqué in the shape of a bull’s head with pronounced horns (Kromer 1959, 34; Dular and Križ 1990, 543). Grave 49 was probably the inhumation of a male individual and contained a bronze belt plate and belt rings, two iron spearheads, an iron knife, a bronze spur, two bronze animal-head fibulae,6 a ceramic vessel, and six bronze trilobate arrowheads (Kromer 1959, 35; Dular and Križ 1990, 543).

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