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THE DISTRIBUTION OF THE LEAF-SHAPED SWORDS 97
the county of Fej6r," one from the Schatze near Hajdu-boszormeny/' one from Oreszka
in the county of Zemplen,'» and one, also found with swords of Type D, from near
the Plattensee or Lake Balaton/" Three come from Bohemia, from Gross-Tschernitz,
Siebenburgen and Wodnian ;*' one from Salza-Bach, near the Griibegg saw-mills in
Styria,^* and one from a hoard, which contained swords of Type D, found at
Wollersdorf in Lower Austria.*^ One comes from Zuojuica in Herzegovina and one
was found in a lake-dwelling at Auvernier on Lake NeuchS,tel/* The type also occurs
in Germany, though, I beUeve, not plentifully. In Greece two specimens only have
been discovered, in a hoard outside the city of Tiryns.®'
None have been found in Italy, but in France they occur abundantly, and there
are thirty-one specimens of this type in the museum at St. Germain-en-Laye. They
occur more abundantly stiU in these islands ;
fifty-eight have been found in the Thames
basin, fifteen in the Fens, many of these in the famous Wilburton hoard, while fourteen
others come from other counties washed by the North Sea ; from the rest of England
and Wales only eleven have so far been noted. In Ireland this type has not been
found, but there are a considerable number of swords, found in that island, which are
intermediate between this type and Type F, and wiU be dealt with under that heading.
It seems likely that some swords of this type have been found in the Rhine Valley,
but so far I have failed to find any recorded, while elsewhere in Germany, in Schleswig-
Holstein and in Denmark, they seem to be absent. This type, as we have seen, is found
mainly in the west, so that it is extremely interesting to find a single example from
an eastern site. This was found at the village of Zavadyntse, near Gorodak, in the
government of Podoha in South-west Russia.^* The occurrence of this sword so far east
is strange, but taken in conjunction with the distribution of a certain type of pin,
with which I shall deal in a later chapter, it will help to provide an important Hnk in
the chain of our argument.
57 Buda-Pest Museum 1901/27. '» Vienna Museum No. 45721.
58 Hampel (1886) xx. 2 ; Naue (1903) ix. i. «3 In the Museum of Vienna Neftstadt.
59 Hampel (1886) xx. i, 3.
«4 Vienna Museum Nos. 38951, 6284.
«o Vienna Museum No. 50505. ^s Karo (1916) 143 ; Athens Museum No. 6228.
61 Vienna Museum Nos. 4143, 37579, 34860. «« C.I.A.P.A. nth sess. Aug. 1892. I. ii. 343, fig. 2.