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This chapter discusses a sword with inscription and marks, and a three-legged cauldron, both discovered in a medieval urban context. The sites of their discovery are located in present-day north-western Romania, once situated in medieval Kingdom of Hungary, but they originate from the territories of the former Holy Roman Empire. The sword was dated to the period between 1250 and 1350, considering its typology and the inscription; while the cauldron was dated to the fourteenth and fifteenth century. Their way to the place where were discovered is not clear, but certainly they are important witnesses of the long-distance relations between Germany and the former north-eastern parts of medieval Hungary. In order to assess the nature of these long distance-relations, the historical contexts of the artefacts are examined, and several possible interpretations analysed.
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Szőcs, P.L. (2023). Long-Distance Relations Reflected in the Medieval Urban Material Culture of Baia Mare (Nagybánya), Satu Mare (Szatmár) and Mintiu (Németi) (Romania). In: Sawicki, J., Lewis, M., Vargha, M. (eds) A United Europe of Things. Themes in Contemporary Archaeology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-48336-3_11
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