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Hole belt hook (Jössen variant)

Category:

Clothes & fibulas > belt > belt hook

Channel:

Ute Bartelt

Finder:

Find ID:

VT-89RC94MS

Published:

11.2.2024

Period:

Iron Age Northern Germany (600 – 15 BC/0)

Dating:

100 BC - 0

Description:

Profiled hole belt hook, Jössen variant. The slightly curved belt hook has a middle part that consists of a trefoil made up of two smaller and one larger rings that are fused together. A hook arm with a rounded, triangular cross-section leads off from the middle part - delimited by a bulge made up of three transverse ribs - and ends in a hook that is bent sharply outwards. The plate-shaped end has a rivet hole, a torn-out rivet hole and a plate-shaped belt cover. The remains of a line decoration made up of two transverse lines have been preserved on the belt cover. Early pre-Roman Iron Age.

Material:

Bronze

Weight:

10,4 g

Length:

68,1 mm

Condition:

Completely preserved

Detector find:

Yes

Country:

Germany

County:

Region Hannover

Front / Cleaned with water & brush

Rear / Cleaned with water & brush

Cleaned with water & brush

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Ute Bartelt 11.2.2024

Often only fragments of the middle part or the hook arm of these hole belt hooks are found. That's why here is a complete piece.

1 Reply

Jan 11.2.2024

A really great find! 👍

Markus Wehmer 11.2.2024

What a beautiful specimen!

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Ute Bartelt 11.2.2024

That's it. I have rarely had such a well-preserved detector find on my table.

Markus Wehmer 13.2.2024

= "simplified hole belt hook type C" according to Voigt (1971) There is a completely identical example from the "Rauschenwasser" site near Göttingen (Voigt 1971, Fig. 13h) Theodor Voigt, Two groups of late La Tène belts. Annual Journal for Central German Prehistory 55, 1971, 221–270. For a summary of the "Jössen-Rauschenwasser group" of type C according to Voigt, see: Christoph Schlott, On the end of the late La Tène oppidum on the Dünsberg. (Municipality of Biebertal-Fellingshausen, Gießen district, Hesse). Research on the Dünsberg 2 (Montagnac 1999), 24–28.