EARLY BLUE GLASS BRACELETS IN THE MIDDLE DANUBE REGION

• Authors: Gertrúda Březinová , Natalie Venclová , Jaroslav Frána , Marek Fikrle
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

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Numerous finds of La Tène glass bracelets have come to light recently in south-west Slovakia. Attention has been focused on the dark blue bracelets of Haevernick Groups 3 and 2. Up to now, these bracelets were considered to belong to the very late types, including the blue specimens, with their occurrence limited to LTD. However, it seems that in the case of the blue bracelets, new groups may be defined, based on the decoration of figure-of-eight coils (Group 3b/1, 2b/1) or wavy lines (Group 3b/2, 2b/2), with a distribution in the Middle Danube region, namely in south-west Slovakia, Lower Austria and Moravia. According to find contexts as well as visual characteristics of glass and its decoration, the decorated sub-groups were manufactured in this part of Europe as early as in LTC1, or LTC1b at the latest, the undecorated sub-group 3a in LTC2. In LTD1 the production of bracelets of Groups 3 and 2, undecorated or with a wavy line, continued, but probably in other, most likely western European workshops. Chemical analysis (INAA) of ten samples from Slovakia has placed the analysed bracelets into two groups which had been previously identified in the collection of LTC1 – LTC2 glasses from Němčice in Moravia. It is significant that the blue bracelets, undecorated or with a wavy line, cannot be considered diagnostic artefacts of the LTD phase.It is not possible, at least in the Middle Danube region, to date find contexts in LTD based on their occurrence, as has been commonly the case. The identification of earlier and later specimens within Groups 3 and 2 perhaps will be possible in the future as the result of the application of more precise methods of chemical analysis.

Keywords

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DANUBE REGION; LA TÈNE PERIOD; GLASS BRACELETS; CHRONOLOGY; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS

• Publisher: Slovak Academy of Sciences, Archaeological Institute
• Journal: Slovenská archeológia (Slovak Archaeology)
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 61
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 107 – 142

Contributors

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Gertrúda Březinová

• Archeologický ústav SAV, Akademická 2, 949 01 Nitra, Slovak Republic

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Natalie Venclová

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Jaroslav Frána

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Marek Fikrle