[Bonetools] a query for an analogous finding of the comb

[Steve Ashby]

Hi Renáta

What a lovely comb!

I’m afraid I’ve not really worked on combs in your part of the world very
much, where the form is significantly different to what we see in Northern
Europe and Scandinavia in this period, and I would probably just direct you
to the classifications you have already listed. My knowledge does not
really go much further south than northern Poland, I’m afraid, and I am not
aware of any recently published synthesis or parallels from CZ or
neighbouring states, but others on this list might be.

Otherwise I think your best bet might simply be a survey of site
reports from your region, with reference to the Cnotliwy and Chmielowska
classifications. More combs have been published from excavations in Poland
in recent years- wolin and truso for example-though I don’t think there’s
any real update on the classifications in these reports. But it would
probably be more useful to find parallels a bit closer to home - there
might well be relevant material from Wroclaw for instance, which others on
this list might know of.

Best of luck

Steve


On Mon, 11 Apr 2022 at 16:34, Renáta Přichystalová <svecova at phil.muni.cz>
wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I would like to ask you for help with my searching of analogy to the
> antler comb from site Pohansko near Břeclav (CZ).
> This is early medieval stronghold (9th - first half of 10th cen.). The
> comb was found in 3 pieces above the remains of christian church - a
> rotunda.
> There is an article about this rotunda is there: in journal Památky
> archeologické from 2014:
>
> https://www.academia.edu/9675500/Velkomoravsk%C3%A1_rotunda_z_Pohanska_u_B%C5%99eclavi_THE_GREAT_MORAVIAN_ROTUNDA_AT_POHANSKO_NEAR_B%C5%98ECLAV
>
> According my investigation: the comb we can assign to the group IB, type
> VII (variety 9a or 9c) or type VIII (variety 4) - classification
> according to Eugeniusz Cnotliwy 1973: Rzemioslo rogownicze na Pomorzu
> wcześniośredniowiecznym. This king of a comb is dated in the turn of the
> 9th and 10th century AD.
> According to fig. 28 in the monograph of A. Chmielowska (1971) - it
> could be the comb of group IB, type 9, variety e - dated since 11th to
> 13th century AD.
> (titel: Grzebiene starozytne i średniowieczne z ziem polskich).
>
> Please, does anybody know about some similar finding?
>
> I will be thankful for any information.
>
> Thank you in advance.
>
> Renáta P.
>
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