Eagle-shaped brooch from Szőlősgyörök

In September 2020, a volunteer cooperating with the Rippl-Rónai Museum drew our attention to an archeological site located south of the Lake Balaton, in the surroundings of Szőlősgyörök. We have carried out several metal detector-aided field survey campaigns in the area: we spent three days in 2020, and another four in 2021 on the site, and we hope to spend a few more this year. Among the several hundreds of recovered metal artefacts, there is an outstanding piece found by Gábor Jancsekity on 30 October 2021 (Fig. 1). We suspected in the moment of discovery the bird-shaped brooch to be special, and further research confirmed that. The brooch from Szőlősgyörök only has a few known analogies in Hungary, and only one of those is part of a museum’s collection. Since no Hungarian summary of this brooch type has been published so far, we present not only the eagle-shaped brooch from Szőlősgyörök but also its analogies in this paper