Naujo tipo durklas Lietuvoje

LTStraipsnyje skelbiami duomenys apie XX a. 8-ajame dešimtmetyje Čekonių ar Meldučių kaime, Anykščių rajone rastą durklą. Dirbinys gulėjo ant grindų, apleistoje sodyboje. Šis kol kas vienintelis tokio tipo dirbinys Lietuvoje datuojamas II tūkst. pr. Kr. II ketvirčiu. Šio tipo durklų surasta Pietų Švedijoje. Panašūs dirbiniai buvo paplitę ir kituose Pietų ir Centrinės Skandinavijos regionuose bei Centrinėje Europoje. [Iš leidinio]Reikšminiai žodžiai: Ankstyvasis metalų laikotarpis; Durklai; Kotinis durklas; Meldučiai; Metaliniai dirbiniai; Miniatiūrinis durklas; Čekoniai; Bronze Age; Dagers; Daggers; Early Metal Agies; Halberds; Lithuania; Meldučiai; Metal artefacts; Miniature daggers; Čekoniai.

ENFew metal artefacts dating back to the period Before Christ have been uncovered. Among the few exclusive findings are daggers, which are very scanty in Lithuania. So far, daggers of two types have been found in this territory - halberds and miniature daggers. In the year 2011, yet another type of dagger was uncovered in Lithuania. It was found in the 70's in the Čekoniai or Meldučiai village, Anykščiai district. The artefact was lying on the floor of an abandoned homestead. The above mentioned villages are located to the west of the Debeikiai town. The article aims at publicizing relevant data about the dagger in question. The Čekoniai or Meldučiai dagger can be characterised by an extremely high quality casting. It is covered by a patina having a brown hue, with a ruptured ending of the blade. The surviving length of the artefact is 248 mm. Together with the blade a short part of the handle is cast, with the remaining part of the handle of metal or organic origin fixed to it by two rivets. The upper part of the handle is more narrow, and it gets wider approaching the rivet holes. The length of the part of the handle up to the blade is 42 mm, the width of the narrower part is 24 mm, that of the wider part is 39,5 mm, whereas the width is 2 mm. The diameter of the rivet holes is 7 mm, with the distance of 14 mm between them. The blade length is 206 mm, the width at the handle is 34 mm, whereas in the middle it is 30 mm wide. The blade is of an elongated diamond cut, with the central part slightly protuberant, getting more narrow towards the edges.The width of the central part is 5 mm, reaching 2,5 mm near the edges. In the middle of the blade, on both sides of the artefact, two vertical, curved and narrow grooves are parallelly cast. The weight of the dagger is 112,43 g. Private company UAB "Nepriklausomi tyrimai" conducted an analysis of the qualitative and quantitative composition of the chemical elements on the artefact's surface. It has been determined that the artefact consists of copper, tin, nickel and an insignificant share of other chemical elements. […] All those daggers were found in the North Western part of the Scania province, Sweden, and are attributed to Early Bronze Age. Similar type daggers were found in other parts of Scandinavia, such as the provinces as Gotland, East Gotland, Närke and elsewhere. The dagger found in Lithuania bears a typological resemblance to the dagger discovered in the Smogolice village, Western Pomerania, Poland. This type of dagger dates back to the II period of the Bronze Age. Similar daggers are discovered in other sites of Central Europe. The dagger found in the Čekoniai or Meldučiai village is hard to be accurately dated since it was discovered incidentally- On the basis of analogy, it could be attributed to the second quarter of the second millennium ВС. The dagger in question must have unquestionably been imported from one of the above mentioned regions. It is the only dagger of this type, found not only in the territory of Lithuania but also in the whole Eastern Baltic region. [From the publication]