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Signet ring with hedgehog
przełom XIV i XV wieku
National Museum in Szczecin
Part of the collection: Set of archaeological relics found in the Lublin Region
One of the unique archaeological artefacts in the collection of the National Museum in Lublin is the Late Avar style belt end fitting discovered on a multicultural site located on the shore of Zalew Zemborzycki in Lublin, on the side of Dąbrowa Forest.
The belt end, made of bronze and richly decorated with a plant motif, typical for the Avars, was discovered during the excavations carried out in 1984-1985 by the workers of the Archaeology Department of the National Museum in Lublin on the multicultural site in Zemborzyce-Dąbrowa (currently Lublin-Dąbrowa). It was found in the cultural layer at the depth of only 50 cm.
The bronze fitting was cast in the form of a rectangular plate, rounded at the bottom and with two ears at the top. On both surfaces there is an ornamentation with stylised plant motifs on a concave background. These are two intertwined twigs, spreading and forming circles filled with five-leaved on one side and three-leaved palms on the other. The composition is completed by trifoliate motifs on both sides of the intertwined branches. Metallographic research showed that the fitting was made of a copper-tin alloy and has traces of gilding. The decoration was made in the lost-wax casting technique, punching and chiselling were used in the processing phase.
Belt-end fitting from Zemborzyce-Dąbrowa is an exceptional find, one of the few traces of contacts of Slavonic tribes living in south-eastern Poland with the Avar Khaganate in the Lublin area. It dates to about the second half of the 8th - 1st half of the 9th centuryies. In the whole of Poland monuments connected with this nomadic people can be found on only about thirty sites.
Author / creator
Dimensions
cały obiekt: height: 0,39 cm
Object type
ornaments and accessories
Technique
fine detail finishing
Material
bronze, gold
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Creation / finding place
Owner
The National Museum in Lublin
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Location / status
przełom XIV i XV wieku
National Museum in Szczecin
przełom XIV i XV wieku
National Museum in Szczecin
National Museum in Szczecin
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