Wheel needle
The wheel needle is a typical needle shape of the Barrow Bronze Age and a well-known clothing accessory that was found in excavations in Central Europe and France in men (singly) and women (in pairs) and was used to close items of clothing such as coats and cloaks.
The wheel needle is particularly common in Hesse , where the "Speyer type" is one of the oldest. According to Wolf Kubach, it is divided into different types (according to spoke schemes, etc.), which can also occur separately in a certain context (grave or depot ). Friedrich Holste developed a spoke scheme for the wheel needles , who described scheme AH.
With the simple bronze wheel needle, a mostly four-spoke (more rarely six-spoke), wheel-shaped ornament is attached to one end of a needle for better handling and for decoration. The wheel circle is designed as a single or multiple metal ring. The spokes are also available in single or multiple versions to match the ring. The symbol, divided into four, also occurs as a rock carving (e.g. on Bornholm ).
The double wheel needle also has a second ring around the inner four-spoke wheel, which is divided into eight segments.
The “wheels” of the needle can also have small, semicircular extensions shaped like hangers or eyelets at the upper end. There are also supplements in triple form (Lüneburg type) or as a “rod crown” on the upper outer edge.
Disc needle
The disc needle from Parc la Mutta was found in the third bottom layer in 1943 and dated to the early Bronze Age. It is 83 centimeters long, the oval head measures 16.5 by 12.5 centimeters. It consists of two pieces, the head with embossed humps and engraved lines and the forged thorn. It is similar to a wheel needle but with 83 cm (instead of the usual 20 cm), oversized. It is one of a kind. The needle was preserved in the laboratory of the National Museum Zurich and is exhibited in the Rhaetian Museum in Chur .
See also
literature
- Wolf Kubach: The needles in Hessen and Rheinhessen (= prehistoric bronze finds. Department 13: needles. Vol. 3). Beck, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-406-00763-5 (also: Frankfurt am Main, University, dissertation, 1970).
- Wolf Kubach: The Wölfersheim level in the Rhine-Main area (= prehistoric bronze finds. Department 21: Regional and chronological structure of the prehistoric metal ages. Vol. 1). Beck, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-406-09732-4 .