Gold-plated Pins of the Great Migration Period in Bohemia

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Alternative codes found

RIV/00023272:_____/21:10135911

Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=zMhS8AIBWC" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=zMhS8AIBWC</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.31577/slovarch.2021.suppl.2.36" target="_blank" >10.31577/slovarch.2021.suppl.2.36</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Gold-plated Pins of the Great Migration Period in Bohemia

Original language description

The gold-plated iron pins from the Great Migration Period belong to the rare finds, not only in Bohemia. The loose find from Tehov, distr. Prague-east, was therefore a surprise. Together with examples from Praha-Dejvice, Mochov and Chotěšice it belongs to the Thuringian-Bohemian group of pins, which can be dated to the turn of 5/6th c. until the 2nd third of 6th c. Nevertheless, all of the datable Bohemian finds belong to the phase E1 of the Danubian periodisation. it reflects the specific relationship of Thuringia and Bohemia in this period, along with a number of fibulas and other artefacts. Gilded pins from Bohemia are good example of gold plating technique. The results of X-ray fluorescence proved that the gold used for gilding is of very high purity (89-93.2%). This is characteristic for jewellery made in Barbaricum during the roman and the Great Migration Periods. The sources of that gold are usually sought in imports from roman or Byzantine empires, especially in the solidi coinage. The gold-plated iron pins are mostly not preserved in their whole length, because the iron part (roughly a half) has deteriorated. it is proved that tapered, corded end is in fact the head part of the pin, not the lower end. the function of these pins as a hair decoration is supported by the gold plating, because the item is too fragile to use for ordinary cloth fastening. solitary hair pins were used exclusively by women in Frankish, Baiuvaric, Alemannic, Thuringian and Langobardic areas. The gold or gilded examples belong to rare finds and in the majority of them was found in elite graves.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

60102 - Archaeology

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2021

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Slovenská Archeológia

ISSN

1335-0102

e-ISSN

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Volume of the periodical

69

Issue of the periodical within the volume

Supplementum 2

Country of publishing house

SK - SLOVAKIA

Number of pages

10

Pages from-to

379-388

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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