Slovenija in srednja Evropa v poznolatenskem obdobju

Abstract

The author analyses two bronze Late La Tene buttons, a button with a lattice-decorated knob and a perforated trifoliate button, which were sent to the Provincial museum in Ljubljana in 1897 and which were incorrectly inventorised under the site of Toplice. In fact, they come from the hillfort of Stari grad above Podbočje or, more probably, from graves, which are associated with this hillfort. There were also two Late La Tčne knobbed ringlets in the same packet from Stari grad, which lies on the edge of Krško polje and which was settled in the Hallstatt period and in the Late La Tene. Flat cemeteries with cremations from the Hallstat, Late La Tčne, and Early Roman periods are situated on its southeastern slope. Several such buttons, which are characteristic for the large Late La Tčne settlements in Central Europe, have been found in the settlements and graves of the Mokronog group, to which this site belongs. The sometimes mentioned opinion that they belong to horse harness cannot be proved. Some examples arc decoratcd with enamel. On account of their range, they represent two of the relatively numerous elements of the Mokronog group, which are of Central European origin and which indicate that also in this period, contrary to convictions up to the present, it had preserved its essentially Central European character. As a result of analysis of the Nauheim type fibulae from Slovenia the author agrees with the previous statements that variants, which appear in Central Europe, arc absent in this region. Some of the Slovenian examples, however, belong to two variants (A and B), which arc typical of the northeastern Italy (Vencto and Friuli).