Friedrich Jedlička Livres

The third volume of the series combines the surface finds collected by the present author together with Stefan Allerbauer in the Morava Thaya Triangle in the north-west of Lower Austria, which are deposited in the Lower Austrian State Museum [Landesmuseum Niederösterreich] today, with the specimens scattered in countless find reports. This unique compendium allows for a comprehensive settlement history of the region. The area did not only form a section of the large trans-continental long-distance trading route of the “Amber Road”, but also a strategically significant transit and deployment route on a Central European scale. On the other hand, this compilation is an invaluable reference book for the identification of finds and their cultural and chronological context in the sense of a truly “International Archaeology”. The catalogue comprises 361 fibulae of groups Almgren VII and VI, hybrid forms combined from groups VI 1-2, and further developments derived from these [Almgren Types 41-61 altogether]. This is followed by an overview of two distinct settlement zones, Hametbach/Thaya and Morava, followed by some Early Medieval bow and bird brooches.

The book is dedicated to Stefan Allerbauer for his 85th birthday and is part of a series of four volumes on the March-Thaya Triangle some 60 km north-east of Vienna. A first volume “Coins of the Celtic and Romano-Germanic period” has already been published, and texts on the fibulae of the later Roman Imperial period and the Early Middle Ages and other types of small finds are in preparation. The present study contains information on the author, and introduction and acknowledgements, two forewords, and two main chapters, one on the research area in historical and Romano-Germanic times including maps and one on the presented 488 brooches mainly made from non-ferrous metals. A section with general information on find sites, typology, chronology, and cultural influences in fibulae is followed by a detailed discussion of each individual type of brooch starting in the Late Bronze Age. The volume ends with descriptions of each find spot including find circumstances, depositories, principles of classification, and descriptions. An appendix contains data on historical settlements and recovered objects, concordances, abbreviations, a bibliography, and credits for pictures and maps.