Multi-headed “Pins” of the Donja Dolina Type Revisited
Multi-headed “Pins” of the Donja Dolina Type Revisited

Summary/Abstract: This type of pin had been noted from as far back as Truhelka’s excavation at the beginning of the twentieth century of the Donja Dolina pile-dwelling settlement and the cemetery on terraces " na gredama”- Truhelka considered them ’’mysterious objects”, and, on the basis of one grave, as possible belt pendants, as will be mentioned later. All later authors, nonetheless, interpreted them without qualifications as pins, and so we will also treat them here as pins for clothing or other attire, but we shall also cite problems related to their final interpretation. In general, they follow the broad taste in pin formation with multiple heads in the late Bronze and the early Iron Age, but they are quite distinct, clearly defined typologically, and they appear in only two variants (fig. 1). [...]

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