Preliminary communication
https://doi.org/10.52064/vamz.54.1.34
Silver spurs from an unknown site
Ivan Radman-Livaja
Abstract
In the 1970s or the early 1980s an anonymous donator has gifted
a pair of spurs to Zdenko Vinski, who had been in charge of the
Mediaeval Department for decades. Unfortunately, the whereabouts
of the discovery and the find spot are unknown and we
may only speculate that these spurs were found somewhere
in former Yugoslavia. They are nonetheless easily identifiable
from a typological point of view, being late Roman spurs belonging
to the so-called Leuna type. This set may be dated to the 4th
century AD. One may presume that this set was found in a grave,
since Leuna-type spurs are more often than not either grave
finds or finds discovered within Roman military sites and settlements,
the latter finds usually not being full sets but single
spurs or fragments. The find context is shrouded in mystery because
the discovery did not occur under archaeological supervision
and within the legal frame of professional field research.
One may only conjecture what else could have been found in
that grave but in any case, the discoverer, or one of the discoverers,
contacted Zdenko Vinski, probably in order to get more
information about his (or their) find. The late curator must have
somehow convinced the anonymous finder to leave the spurs
in the Museum but he probably never managed to obtain more
information about the find spot and the archaeological context.
Keywords
spurs, Leuna type, 4th century, grave finds
Hrčak ID:
266416
URI
Publication date:
6.12.2021.
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