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

[Ian Riddler]

Dear Renata,

Many thanks for showing us all the lovely comb from Pohansko. It is hard to find good parallels for it. I have checked some of the Bavarian cemetery reports but I could find nothing there, and this type of comb with inward-facing beasts is not really a feature of Alemannic cemeteries either, most of which only extend into the early eighth century in any case. The general absence of this type of end segment from these cemeteries suggests that they are a later phenomenon.

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Ipswich End Segments

We do have a number of comb fragments from England, almost all of which consist only of the end segments, but they are clearly of the same general type. They are a long way away from you but they include the same type of inward-facing beast. There are three examples from Hamwic and three from Ipswich. The Ipswich end segments are not well-dated at all and come from contexts of c 670-870. The Hamwic end segments are much better dated but one of them (SOU15.5) is unstratified and I don’t have information about the large segment from SOU177 unfortunately. The third example (SOU31 1178) comes from Six Dials context of c 850-900, which fits well with your dating.

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It may well be that these are all ninth-century combs.

Ian Riddler

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From: Renáta Přichystalová<mailto:svecova at phil.muni.cz>
Sent: 11 April 2022 16:34
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Subject: [Bonetools] a query for an analogous finding of the comb

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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Mgr. Renáta Přichystalová, Ph.D.
Department of Archaeology and Museology
Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University
Arna Nováka 1
CZ-602 00 Brno
Tel. No. 00420 54949 7416

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