01-20-2007, 04:17 PM
I thought that might be of interest...
a bronze belt buckle from a male grave in Landifay, Dep. Aisne (F). Dated 400 AD, in the Musee Municipal of Laon.
The buckle shows the busts of a woman and a soldier with lance and helmet looking like an Intercisa type.
Also in the grave were found a silver stabber and a triangular comb.
The soldier is supposed to be a Germanic warrior.
Lit: H. W. Böhme: Germanische Grabfunde des 4. bis 5. Jahrhunderts zwischen unterer Elbe und Loire. Münchener Beiträge zur Vor- und Frühgeschichte 19 (1974), p. 320.
V.I. Evison, La tombe de guerrier de Landifay in: Problemes de chronologie relative et absolute concernant les cimetieres merovingiens d'entre Loire et Rhin. 1978., 39ff.
about helmets
The helmet fragment is from the Zähringer Burgberg, one of if not THE mightiest Burgberg of the Alamanns, maybe associated with the Alaman king Gundomad mid 4th century. Its a cheek guard with a golden copper frame.
That pic is from the catalogue Die Alamannen, Stuttgart 1997, p. 107. Im sorry I dont have more information about it.
a bronze belt buckle from a male grave in Landifay, Dep. Aisne (F). Dated 400 AD, in the Musee Municipal of Laon.
The buckle shows the busts of a woman and a soldier with lance and helmet looking like an Intercisa type.
Also in the grave were found a silver stabber and a triangular comb.
The soldier is supposed to be a Germanic warrior.
Lit: H. W. Böhme: Germanische Grabfunde des 4. bis 5. Jahrhunderts zwischen unterer Elbe und Loire. Münchener Beiträge zur Vor- und Frühgeschichte 19 (1974), p. 320.
V.I. Evison, La tombe de guerrier de Landifay in: Problemes de chronologie relative et absolute concernant les cimetieres merovingiens d'entre Loire et Rhin. 1978., 39ff.
about helmets
The helmet fragment is from the Zähringer Burgberg, one of if not THE mightiest Burgberg of the Alamanns, maybe associated with the Alaman king Gundomad mid 4th century. Its a cheek guard with a golden copper frame.
That pic is from the catalogue Die Alamannen, Stuttgart 1997, p. 107. Im sorry I dont have more information about it.
Jens Wucherpfennig