Original scientific paper
MEDIEVAL RIDING GEAR AND WEAPONS FROM THE BILOGORA AREA
Goran Jakovljević
; bjelovar Municipal Museum
Abstract
Riding gear (gear for horses and riders, including weapons) as
an archaeological material is very important not only for the
determination of a chronology for the existence of individual
medieval fortifi ed settlements, but also for the entire cultural
designation of a given region. Although most medieval sites
in Croatia have not been researched, items of this type from
the collections of the museums in Bjelovar and Koprivnica
indicate the possibility of their dating to the fourteenth and
fi fteenth centuries and the cultural infl uences which were
engendered by the intermingling of European and Oriental
traditions, which had their wellspring in Kievan Rus’. An
analysis of maces, clubs, crossbow arrows, spurs, stirrups and
horseshoes and their dating can also be used to supplement or
correct data from the historical sources.
Keywords
riding gear; weapons; club; mace; arrowheads; stirrup; spur; horseshoe; bridle
Hrčak ID:
37077
URI
Publication date:
20.5.2009.
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