The Crossbow Animal-Headed Brooches from Grave 165 of the Sambian-Natangian Culture Burial Ground at Bol’shoe Isakovo (Formerly Lauth)
Volume 14 (2010): Underwater Archaeology in the Baltic Region, pp. 228–233
Pub. online: 20 December 2010
Type: Article
Open Access
Open Access
Received
20 September 2010
20 September 2010
Revised
14 December 2010
14 December 2010
Accepted
20 December 2010
20 December 2010
Published
20 December 2010
20 December 2010
Abstract
The article presents the publication and an attempt at the analysis of the brooches from grave 165 of the Bol’shoe Isakovo (formerly Lauth) burial ground. These are special finds which produces pieces of animal-headed crossbow brooches of the Migration Period in Sambian-Natangian culture and the western Baltic region. Brooches from the grave of the Bol’shoe Isakovo burial ground should be one of the earliest examples of the animal style in the southeast Baltic, and an instance of contacts between northern Europe and the Sambian population in the Early Migration Period.