Full: Front Composite disc brooch; silver sheet appliqué incised with backward-glancing bird with prominent tail; incised geometric decoration; applied copper alloy strip border; cast copper alloy base-plate.

Bronze fibula. Serpentine fibula with straight pin and terminal disc of spiral wire. Small disc; bow with triangular contour, forming a small coil above the catch-plate and a pronounced curve in the upper part; large one-coiled spring and straight pin. Incised decoration of encircling lines on straight section of bow above the catch-plate. Slightly deformed. Light green patina.

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----------------------- (click on the pictures and they will enlarge) In the Roman Empire fibulae (broach, safety pin) were used to keep on...

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Lombardic Fibula, mid-6th century (National Museum of Slovenia). http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/fibulae.html

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Morocco | Silver and glass paste fibula. Ida ou Nadif, central Anti Atlas region | ca. end of the 19th to early 20th century

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The Ashmolean Museum: The Anglo-Saxons; Finglesham, Northbourne, Cemetery Female and child burial, grave E2. 575-625 Detail of items 43) Pair of gilt silver and garnet square headed brooches. Photograph by Lindsay Kerr.

Lagobardic fibulae, Slovenia, Rifnik pri Šentjurju

Fibula: Not to be confused with the bone, a fibula is an ancient brooch use to clasp or fasten clothing together. While they were used primarily by 7th century Greeks and Romans, fibula brooches were created as early as the Bronze Age to as late as the Middle Ages. The Celts and the nomadic tribes of Europe have…