05-25-2014, 02:07 PM
Hello,
I just came across the following find:
[attachment=10010]LeadModelUrach.jpg[/attachment].
According to Rainer Christlein, it is a "leaden model of a workpiece (probably belt part) with chip-carving decoration". Martina Paul omits the "probably" and claims that the find from the "Runder Berg" was a lead model of a belt part.
Given the shape (long rectangular), size (remaining length: 4,1 cm) and the decoration (geometrical chip-carving, swastikas), it is highly probable that the find pictured above is a leaden model of a belt part belonging to a chip-carved belt set of the Vieuxville-type.
It seems that the masters of chip-carved belts indeed were made of lead.
I just came across the following find:
[attachment=10010]LeadModelUrach.jpg[/attachment].
According to Rainer Christlein, it is a "leaden model of a workpiece (probably belt part) with chip-carving decoration". Martina Paul omits the "probably" and claims that the find from the "Runder Berg" was a lead model of a belt part.
Given the shape (long rectangular), size (remaining length: 4,1 cm) and the decoration (geometrical chip-carving, swastikas), it is highly probable that the find pictured above is a leaden model of a belt part belonging to a chip-carved belt set of the Vieuxville-type.
It seems that the masters of chip-carved belts indeed were made of lead.
