Double button

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Clone double button

According to Almgren, the golden double button ( English dress-fastener ) is one of the Irish adaptations of the Northern European primer .

Known finds

Irish island

  1. The late Bronze Age (900–700 BC) double buttons of the Ballinesker treasure trove were discovered during earthworks in County Wexford , Ireland . The treasure consists of two double buttons, a bracelet, three earrings and part of a fourth. The double buttons and the bracelet are made of solid gold. They are very well made, unadorned, and lightly polished.
  2. The gold double button from Clones, County Monaghan , dates back to the 8th century BC. It is decorated with many small, round engraved shapes. It has a length of 21.5 centimeters, is made of pure gold and weighs over 1000 grams. It was probably used for special occasions. It belongs to the Dowris phase of the late Bronze Age and can be seen in the National Museum of Ireland.
  3. Two double buttons were found in the Killymmon Demesne (domain) in County Tyrone , Northern Ireland, in a box carved from a block of alder wood. After radiocarbon dates suggested that a 10th century BC group of hills facing destruction BC, an excavation was carried out. The three hills were made up of alternating layers of baked clay and charcoal. A layer of ash rose from the hills on top of which lay charcoal and charred barley. In addition to the golden double buttons, a bronze medal, grinding stones , a spout hatchet, stone beads , spindle whorls , cloth, wool and hair (some of them human) and a considerable amount of rough, broken pottery were found. Under the top layer of peat, over which the ashes lay, lay an east-west one meter wide band of wooden stakes.
  4. An unusually shaped bronze button from the Irish late Latène period (600 BC) was carved and filled with enamel .

European mainland

In Blender, west of Verden in Lower Saxony , the most important gold find in Lower Saxony was made in 1936 near the sand ditch in the form of a 475 g heavy 11 cm double button (initially called a gold ring with a trumpet end). The piece from Ireland is unique on the continent and was in a Harpstedter rough pot .

Bronzes

Bronze double buttons (Danish: double knaps ) were z. B. found in the stone boxes in Egehøj , in the tree coffin of the wife of Skrydstrup , both in Denmark and on the burial ground of Dragby in Sweden .

literature

  • Erna Lorenzen: “Spredte træk om dobbeltknappen”. In: Købstadmuseet “Den Gamle By” Årbog 1949, pp. 39–49.
  • Jürgen Kunow (Ed.): 100 years of fibula shapes according to Oscar Almgren . Wünsdorf 1998, ISBN 3-910011-17-9

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Irish National Museum