Crown neck ring

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Crown neck rings ( English crown-shaped neck-rings ) are two-piece collars, which are decorated at the top by triangular prongs. Crown neck rings were cast from bronze and consist of two parts that are connected by a hinge . An iron pin usually forms the closure. The top of the hinge is often decorated with a rosette. The name is derived from the triangular prongs that give the jewelry a crown-like appearance. Early forms of this type of find usually have an oval or pointed oval cross-section and are decorated with transverse ribs on the top. However, these are not crown neck rings in the narrower sense.

distribution

Crown neck rings were from the 5th to 3rd century BC. Especially in Denmark and in the north German lowlands, mainly in the Jastorf culture . Late forms (types II-IV according to Kostrzewski ) also occur in the Przeworsk and Pomeranian cultures . According to Horst Keiling these come from Denmark and Northern Germany, according to Maciałowicz mainly from Jutland . Individual specimens have also been found in the Transcarpathian Ukraine (7) and in Moldova , for example in Davideni ( Neamț district ).

use

The crown neck rings are generally referred to as neck rings. They were often laid in bogs, perhaps as sacrifices. Crown neck rings with signs of wear can sometimes be found in graves, which shows that they were also worn. Maciałowicz, however, points out that the spikes can hinder the movement of the head and therefore considers them a festive costume. Gender-specific grave finds are missing. Most of the finds are individual finds .

Lower Saxony

The Kronenhalsring of Emmendorf, a municipality in the district of Uelzen in the Lüneburg Heath in Lower Saxony , which was found during peat cutting in 1852, weighs 770 g; its diameter is 14 cm. Other rings were found in the Elbe-Weser triangle near Debstedt and Langenmoor , both in the district of Cuxhaven . The rings found in Lower Saxony were all individual finds in the moor.

literature

  • Wolfgang Adler: The neck ring of men and gods. Written sources, pictorial representations and neck ring finds from Western, Central and Eastern Europe between Hallstatt and the period of population migration . Habelt, Bonn 2003, ISBN 978-3-7749-3216-6 , p. 274. (= Saarbrücker Contributions to Classical Studies , Vol. 78)
  • Björn Rauchfuß: The Crown Neck Rings of the Pre-Roman Iron Age in Northern and Eastern Europe , Master's thesis, Humboldt University Berlin 2002. ( online )
  • Andrzej Maciałowicz: It's a man's world… Germanic societies of the Jastorf and the Przeworsk cultures in southern and central Poland (300 BC – 10 AD) , in: Przemysław Urbańczyk, Aleksandra Rzeszotarska-Nowakiewicz (ed.): Polish lands from the first evidence of human presence to the early Middle Ages , Vol. 4: 500 BC – 500 AD , Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw 2016, ISBN 978-83-63760-91-5 , pp. 71–110, here: pp. 76 f . ( online )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andrzej Maciałowicz, It's a Man's World ... Germanic societies of the Jastorf and the Przeworsk cultures in southern and central Poland (300 BC-10 AD). In: Przemysław Urbańczyk, Aleksandra Rzeszotarska-Nowakiewicz (eds.): Polish lands from the first evidence of human presence to the early Middle Ages , Vol. 4: 500 BC – 500 AD , Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw 2016, ISBN 978- 83-63760-91-5 , p. 76
  2. ↑ Lemma Kronenhalsring, §2. In: Max Ebert (Ed.), Reallexikon der Prehistory, Berlin 1924, Volume 7, 106, https://archive.org/details/b29931125_0007/page/200
  3. ↑ Lemma Kronenhalsring, §1. In: Max Ebert (Ed.), Reallexikon der Prehistory, Berlin 1924, Volume 7, 106, https://archive.org/details/b29931125_0007/page/200
  4. ^ Teresa Dąbrowska, Comments on the Origin of the Przeworsk Culture. Prehistoric Journal 63 (1), 1988, 73
  5. ^ Teresa Dąbrowska, Comments on the Origin of the Przeworsk Culture. Prehistoric Journal 63 (1), 1988, 73
  6. ↑ Horst Keiling 1970, Remarkable metal objects from the late Latène Age burial ground Friedrichshof, Kr. Güstrow. Excavations and finds 15, 208ff, quoted from Teresa Dąbrowska, Comments on the Origin of the Przeworsk Culture, Prehistoric Journal 63 (1), 1988, 73
  7. ↑ Andrzej Maciałowicz, It's a Man's World ... Germanic societies of the Jastorf and the Przeworsk cultures in southern and central Poland (300 BC-10 AD). In: Przemysław Urbańczyk, Aleksandra Rzeszotarska-Nowakiewicz (eds.): Polish lands from the first evidence of human presence to the early Middle Ages , Vol. 4: 500 BC – 500 AD , Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw 2016, 76
  8. ↑ Mircea Babeș, Ilie Untaru, The earliest Latin Age Germanic find from the Moldau, the crown neck ring by Davideni. Dacia 13, 1969, 283-290, quoted from Teresa Dąbrowska, Remarks on the Origin of the Przeworsk Culture. Prehistoric Journal 63 (1), 1988, 73
  9. ↑ http://www.cimec.ro/Arheologie/mcr/html_eng/davideni.htm
  10. ↑ Andrzej Maciałowicz, It's a Man's World ... Germanic societies of the Jastorf and the Przeworsk cultures in southern and central Poland (300 BC-10 AD). In: Przemysław Urbańczyk, Aleksandra Rzeszotarska-Nowakiewicz (eds.): Polish lands from the first evidence of human presence to the early Middle Ages , Vol. 4: 500 BC – 500 AD , Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw 2016, 78
  11. ↑ Andrzej Maciałowicz, It's a Man's World ... Germanic societies of the Jastorf and the Przeworsk cultures in southern and central Poland (300 BC-10 AD). In: Przemysław Urbańczyk, Aleksandra Rzeszotarska-Nowakiewicz (eds.): Polish lands from the first evidence of human presence to the early Middle Ages , Vol. 4: 500 BC – 500 AD , Polish Academy of Sciences, Warszawa 2016, 77
  12. ^ Teresa Dąbrowska, Comments on the Origin of the Przeworsk Culture. Prehistoric Journal 63 (1), 1988, 73
  13. ↑ https://kulturerbe.niedersachsen.de/objekt/record_kuniweb_1205974/1/
  14. ^ Hans-Jürgen Häßler : Prehistory and early history in Lower Saxony . Theiss, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 3-8062-0495-0 , p. 415.