The West Balt Circle Riders

The spurs of horse riders have long been acknowledged as an important item of grave furniture in the Late Roman and Migration period burials of Poland, a reflection of the high social position held by the deceased. Yet while spurs have been studied at a general level, and typo-chronological studies...

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description The spurs of horse riders have long been acknowledged as an important item of grave furniture in the Late Roman and Migration period burials of Poland, a reflection of the high social position held by the deceased. Yet while spurs have been studied at a general level, and typo-chronological studies have been conducted on spurs found in southern and central Poland, no such research has so far been conducted on finds from the West Balt Circle, in north-eastern Poland. This volume is an attempt to rectify the situation by offering a thorough examination of finds attributed to the Bogaczewo and Sudovian Cultures. The author here offers a comprehensive assessment of surviving materials from the period, many of which are scattered through museums across Europe, together with an in-depth analysis of archival sources (included among them the private inventories of archaeologists working in the pre-war period) in order to reconstruct our understanding of the furnishings and data relating to spurs. This detailed research, carefully contextualized against our wider understanding of Barbarian Europe, offers an important new reference for our understanding both of the West Balt Circle and its inter-cultural relations with surrounding regions, as well as of the symbolic meaning of spurs and their significance in burial rites.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1720242026-02-13T13:27:25Z The West Balt Circle Riders Kontny, Bartosz Objects and materials (antiquities & material culture) Eastern Europe and Balkans (up to c. 500) Roman Archaeology Metallurgy thema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NK Archaeology The spurs of horse riders have long been acknowledged as an important item of grave furniture in the Late Roman and Migration period burials of Poland, a reflection of the high social position held by the deceased. Yet while spurs have been studied at a general level, and typo-chronological studies have been conducted on spurs found in southern and central Poland, no such research has so far been conducted on finds from the West Balt Circle, in north-eastern Poland. This volume is an attempt to rectify the situation by offering a thorough examination of finds attributed to the Bogaczewo and Sudovian Cultures. The author here offers a comprehensive assessment of surviving materials from the period, many of which are scattered through museums across Europe, together with an in-depth analysis of archival sources (included among them the private inventories of archaeologists working in the pre-war period) in order to reconstruct our understanding of the furnishings and data relating to spurs. This detailed research, carefully contextualized against our wider understanding of Barbarian Europe, offers an important new reference for our understanding both of the West Balt Circle and its inter-cultural relations with surrounding regions, as well as of the symbolic meaning of spurs and their significance in burial rites. 2026-02-13T13:27:21Z 2026-02-13T13:27:21Z 2025 book 9782503614939 9782503614946 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/172024 eng pol Warsaw Studies in Archaeology application/octet-stream Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International https://www.brepols.net/products/IS-9782503614939-1 https://doi.org/10.1484/M.WSA-EB.5.142811 Brepols 10.1484/M.WSA-EB.5.142811 10.1484/M.WSA-EB.5.142811 337417f5-5e42-49d3-8b32-3867e1572190 9782503614939 9782503614946 9 190 Turnhout open access
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