DOI issue:
Vol. VI : 2 1989
DOI article:Beranová, Magdalena: The agricultural tools of Bohemia: at the beginning of the Iron Age (5th - 3rd century BC)
DOI Page / Citation link:https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.49003#0120
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ral production in other parts of Europe as
well. In this context, let us mention the in-
vention of the coulter in the southern part of
eastern Europe, building of fruit-drying facil-
ities, kilns (Sramko 1973) or the manufacture
of the above mentioned single Greek-type
grinding sets (Beranova 1987). Thraco-Da-
cian peasants used ards with iron ard-shares
of a specific type with a wide and bulky tang
leaning slightly upwards and away from the
blade (Beranova 1980 with further refs.; Cici-
kova 1969; unpublished finds from the Mu-
seum of Rumanian history at Bucuresti and
Deva). In Bohemia, a related type is repre-
sented by an ard-share from Lipany by
Cesky-Brod (Fig. 12), provided, however, with
a wide and slightly upward-turned shaft in-
stead of the tang. In north western Europe,
composite wooden ards with independent ar-
row- or oar-shaped ard-shares of the Donne-
ruplund or Dostrup types were in use. The
ards of pre-Roman Britain might have been
provided with ard-shares of iron even before
c. 300 BC, as in Bohemia (Payne 1948); how-
ever, this dating is not confirmed by S.Rees
(1981).
Bohemian evidence is significant insofar as
it indicates improvements in all major activ-
MAGDALENA BERANOVA
ral production in other parts of Europe as
well. In this context, let us mention the in-
vention of the coulter in the southern part of
eastern Europe, building of fruit-drying facil-
ities, kilns (Sramko 1973) or the manufacture
of the above mentioned single Greek-type
grinding sets (Beranova 1987). Thraco-Da-
cian peasants used ards with iron ard-shares
of a specific type with a wide and bulky tang
leaning slightly upwards and away from the
blade (Beranova 1980 with further refs.; Cici-
kova 1969; unpublished finds from the Mu-
seum of Rumanian history at Bucuresti and
Deva). In Bohemia, a related type is repre-
sented by an ard-share from Lipany by
Cesky-Brod (Fig. 12), provided, however, with
a wide and slightly upward-turned shaft in-
stead of the tang. In north western Europe,
composite wooden ards with independent ar-
row- or oar-shaped ard-shares of the Donne-
ruplund or Dostrup types were in use. The
ards of pre-Roman Britain might have been
provided with ard-shares of iron even before
c. 300 BC, as in Bohemia (Payne 1948); how-
ever, this dating is not confirmed by S.Rees
(1981).
Bohemian evidence is significant insofar as
it indicates improvements in all major activ-