The war as seen by an archaeologist. Reconstruction of barbarian ...
The war as seen by an archaeologist. Reconstruction of barbarian ... The war as seen by an archaeologist. Reconstruction of barbarian ...
Journal of The Roman war Military as seen by Equipment an archaeologist Studies 16 2008 109 Fig. 1: Traces of repairs located on shield elements: a - Kamieńczyk, grave 293 (DĄBROWSKA 1997, pl. 134: 293,1), b - Nadkole, grave 29 (ANDRZEJOWSKI 1998, pl. 19: 4), c - Młodzikowo, grave 183 (DYMACZEWSKI 1958: Fig. 319: 12).
110 Fig. 2: Shield boss from Nasławice with traces of deformation (KONTNY 2001a: Fig 2). changed in time, yet it never fell below 50%, and sometimes reached (A 2 ) or even exceeded (B 2b ) 90% 14 . Diagram 1 does not, however, distinguish between the burials with single shafted weapon heads and those with their greater number. For that reason I decided to study also other aspects of this problem. First I put together the burials with more than a single shafted weapon head (changes of frequency measured in the same way as above) - Diagram 2. It yielded the following picture: burials with several shafted weapon heads can be found as early as in phase A 1 , yet their number is very small. The phases which follow manifest a tendency towards increase, reaching a culmination in phase B 2b (more than 70 % burials with weapons had several heads). Then there was a gradual decline of importance of this category of grave goods, which completely disappeared in phases C 2 -D 15 . Bartosz Kontny 100 90 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 % 65,5 87,1 81,2 77,5 83,1 91,6 76,4 68,8 51,4 A1 A2 A3 B1 B1a B2b B2/C1 late C2-D stage of phase C1a-C1b Diagram 1: Frequency of weapon graves furnished with weapon head(s) in the Przeworsk Culture % 80 60 40 20 0 20,8 26,5 52,3 70,9 43,4 24,7 3,4 3,2 0 A1 A2 A3 B1 B1a B2b B2/C1 late C2-D stage of phase C1a-C1b Diagram 2: Frequency of weapon graves furnished with than one shafted weapon head in the Przeworsk Culture The appearance of more than two heads of shafted weapons in burials has been remarked upon in literature and this phenomenon was mainly linked with phase B 2b 16 . In this connection it seemed worth while to study the importance of this phenomenon. A histogram (Diagram 3) presenting the numbers of grave assemblages containing several heads was made. Two variants: two shafted weapon heads, and more than two shafted weapon heads were taken into consideration. The diagram indicates that burials with more than two shafted weapon heads were very rare and those with two heads were predominant 17 . It is worth reviewing how the frequency of barbed heads looks against that background (these heads were included in Diagram 2). It is known that they appeared in the Roman Period until phase C 1a 18 , and were considered to be the most numerous in phases B 1 and B 2a 19 . The data (frequen-
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Journal <strong>of</strong> <strong>The</strong> Rom<strong>an</strong> <strong>war</strong> Military <strong>as</strong> <strong>seen</strong> <strong>by</strong> Equipment <strong>an</strong> <strong>archaeologist</strong> Studies 16 2008 109<br />
Fig. 1: Traces <strong>of</strong> repairs located on shield elements: a - Kamieńczyk, grave 293 (DĄBROWSKA 1997, pl.<br />
134: 293,1), b - Nadkole, grave 29 (ANDRZEJOWSKI 1998, pl. 19: 4), c - Młodzikowo, grave 183<br />
(DYMACZEWSKI 1958: Fig. 319: 12).
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