Original scientific paper

Archaeological Finds of Medieval Buckles in Kaštela

Tonči Burić ; Kralja Petra Svačića 17, Kaštel Lukšić, Croatia

Abstract

The author discusses finds of buckles from the 13th to the 16th century discovered on the whole in recent excavations in Kaštela, deriving from the parish graveyards of the medieval villages of Sućurac (Sv. Juraj od Putalja) and Radun (Sv. Juraj – Svećurje). Discovered to date have been 17 specimens, which can be divided into four types: round buck- les, D-type buckles, mushroom-shaped buckles and two-part symmetrical buckles with mounting. The small number of types in Kaštela, no more than a fifth of the total typological repertoire of buckles in Croatia is the consequence above all of this micro region having been so little researched. Analogies have been confirmed at numerous sites in Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Serbia, and parallels from England have also been adduced. Buckles are a reflection of the change in the manner in which people dressed in the Middle Ages, which occurred at the turn of the thirteenth and fourteenth century, and also tells of the expansion of these changes from urban centres to rural communities, here, to be precise, to the space of the districts of Trogir and Split. In line with these divisions, it is reasonable to speak of Romanesque, Gothic and Renaisance trades and fashion elements.

Keywords

buckles; Kaštela; Svećurje-Radun; Sv. Juraj od Putalja; Baba Lokva;

Hrčak ID:

258529

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/258529

Publication date:

1.6.2021.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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