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Textile through metal – Analysis of mineralized textile remains from the Middle La Tène cemetery of Veliko Polje in Zvonimirovo

The La Tène cemetery at Veliko Polje is situated on an elongated ridge close to Zvonimirovo in northern Croatia. In the beginning, it was excavated as a medieval cemetery of the Bijelo Brdo group, but during the research, numerous incineration Middle La Téne graves were unearthed, leading to continuous and systematic research of this particular Late Iron Age necropolis. These graves can be dated to a range from the end of the 3rd century BC to the first half of the 2nd century BC (LT C2). Based on the typological characteristics of the grave finds, this cemetery at Veliko Polje in Zvonimirovo can be ascribed to the Taurisci community, or more accurately to the distribution of the Mokronog group. The funerary ritual of this La Téne cemetery seems to have been quite well organized, because in most of the cases the graves were shaped as rectangular or oval pits, sometimes even containing wooden coffins or other funerary containers made of organic material, and the buried human remains were always incinerated. An important feature for this cemetery are the grave goods, ranging from ceramic vessels with food and drink as funerary gifts to weapons and toiletry accessories in warrior graves or knives and ceramic spindle- whorls in female graves, all accompanied regularly by typical male or female costume attire, such as fibulae, belts, jewelry, etc. Thanks to the fact that many of these finds were made of iron, several textile and other organic fragments were preserved in its corrosion and were eligible for further investigation after the conservation of the objects. The analysis consisted of determining the weave type of the fragments, noticing the thread spin direction and measuring the thread diameter. The remains were analyzed primarily by viewing with the naked eye, but some finer details such as thread diameter and patterning were determined with the help of digital microscopy. In this paper, preliminary results of the analysis of textile remains from four graves will be presented, along with their explanation and possible interpretation.

textile analysis ; mineralized textile ; Late Iron Age ; La Téne ; Zvonimirovo necropolis ; grave goods

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