Münsinger Primer
The Münsinger fibula is a springtime garment clasp to hold clothes together. This primer is named after the Münsingen-Rain burial ground in the canton of Bern , where it was first described at the beginning of the 20th century.
description
The Münsinger fibula is executed in the so-called spring La Tène scheme; this means that the foot swings back in a wide arc to the bracket and almost touches it. In the case of the Münsinger fibula, the foot has the shape of a right triangle. At its end there is a round disc, which is often covered with coral , but in simpler versions it can only consist of decorated sheet metal. The bracket is ribbon-shaped and describes the shape of a wide "U", it can also be decorated. The closing effect is generated by a spiral spring with four or six turns.
Münsinger fibulae are a typical part of the costume of the late Iron Age , especially of the Latène B stage, i.e. H. 4th century BC Its distribution area extends from southern Germany, Austria and Switzerland to eastern France.
literature
- Oscar Almgren: Studies on Northern European fibula forms of the first centuries AD . Leipzig 1923.
- Ronald Heynowski: Primers. recognize · determine · describe. (= Determination Book Archeology 1 ), 2nd edition, Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin / Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-422-07119-3 , p. 61.
- Frank Roy Hodson: The La Tène cemetary at Münsingen-Rain. Catalog and relative chronology. (= Acta Bernensia. Contributions to prehistoric, classical and recent archeology. 5). Stämpfli and Cie AG, Bern 1968.
- Rosemarie Müller, Heiko Steuer : fibula and fibula costume. In: Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde (RGA). 2nd Edition. Volume 8, Walter de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1994, ISBN 3-11-013188-9 , pp. 541-545.