On the chronology of the Late Pre-Roman Iron Age in eastern Germania in the light of selected types of brooches

Piotr Łuczkiewicz

doi:10.35686/ar.2020.8

Abstract

On the basis of selected types of supra-regional brooches (A.65, Nauheim, Schüsselfibeln, A.18), an attempt was made to check whether they appeared in the eastern part of Germania in the same chronological rhythm as in their home zones. The service life of A.65 brooch and post-oppidial forms A.18 north of the Carpathians corresponds to the chronology in the primary distribution zone, no significant differences can be seen. Another picture – obtained, however, from a small number of finds – is drawn for Nauheim type brooches, which seem to remain in use a little longer in the zone between the Carpathian Mountains and the Baltic coast, until the younger stage of the LT D2 phase. Similarly, bowl-shaped brooches (Schüsselfibeln), probably made mostly in local workshops, were worn in the north for several decades longer than in the zone south of the Carpathian Mountains. In Pomerania they came into use probably slightly earlier than in the area of Przeworsk culture and probably went out of fashion a little faster. This indicates a slightly different rhythm of stylistic and fashion changes between southern and central Poland (Przeworsk culture) and the north – the region of the lower Vistula and the Gulf of Gdańsk. Late La Tène period – Late Pre-Roman Iron Age – chronology – brooches – Przeworsk culture – imports

Highlights

Almost tirelessly research is concerned with chronological questions of the Middle and Late La Tène Period or – in the Germanic-influenced lands – of the Late Pre-Roman Iron Age
Our purpose is to check whether the content of the valid relative chronological phases in the southern and western provinces coincide with find conditions in the east and whether there are chronological diffe rences
The fibulae come in use already after the fall of the oppida, i.e. in the early part of LT D2, about at the same time as the Germanic geschweiften Fibeln Kostrzewski M and are often found in the inventories of the Großromstedt-Horizon in Central Germany and the Plaňany-Horizon in Bohemia; the younger variants with tendon hooks even reach the Haltern-Horizon and the late Augustan period (Völling 1995, 186–188, 191–192; Demetz 1999, 122; Bockius – Łuczkiewicz 2004, 50; Droberjar 2006, 23–32)

Summary

Piotr Łuczkiewicz

On the basis of selected types of supra-regional brooches (A.65, Nauheim, Schüsselfibeln, A.18), an attempt was made to check whether they appeared in the eastern part of Germania in the same chronological rhythm as in their home zones. The service life of A.65 brooch and post-oppidial forms A.18 north of the Carpathians corresponds to the chronology in the primary distribution zone, no significant differences can be seen Another picture – obtained, from a small number of finds – is drawn for Nauheim type brooches, which seem to remain in use a little longer in the zone between the Carpathian Mountains and the Baltic coast, until the younger stage of the LT D2 phase. Obraz používání spon Almgren 65 a 18 severně od Karpatského oblouku odpovídá chronologii v původní oblasti jejich výskytu. Vyráběné nejspíš převážně v lokálních dílnách, zde byly používané pravděpodobně o řadu desetiletí déle než v oblasti jižně od Karpatského oblouku. V pobaltské oblasti se přitom objevily pravděpodobně dříve než na území převorské kultury a také o něco dřív vyšly z módy. To naznačuje rozdílný rytmus stylistických a módních změn mezi Pobaltím, resp. regionem dolní Visly a Gdaňského zálivu, a oblastí převorské kultury v jižním a středním Polsku. pozdní doba laténská – pozdní doba předřímská – chronologie – spony – převorská kultura – importy

Introduction

Brooches under discussion

Nauheim brooches

Findings

Conclusion