Disc brooch
A disc brooch is a form of fibula , i.e. a garment clasp, buckle, clip or needle to hold clothing together, with a disc-shaped, often richly decorated plate as a cover over the needle construction. In the early Middle Ages, disc brooches with a diameter of up to five centimeters were usually part of women's clothing, but much smaller specimens were also worn by men from the Carolingian period . Well-known brooches of this type originate from the Migration Period and the adjacent centuries, such as the disk brooches from Soest or from the Lower Saxony community of Holle .
Many disc brooches have gold ornate inlaid with semi-precious stones are enameled or inlaid or have a circulation of gold or silver plate. The famous Pliezhausen rider's disc was formerly the edition of a disc brooch. An example from Roman times is the Tangendorf disc brooch . The early medieval disc brooch from Maschen shows a figure with a halo .
Alemannic disc fibula of the 6th century with almandine and leg inlays
Pair of disc brooches from the Arnegund grave, approx. 6th century.
Merovingian period brooches of the 6th and 7th centuries with precious stones and filigree
Gold disc brooches from the prince's grave mound Sonnenbühl ( La Tène period )
The coat of arms of the municipality of Holle shows a disc brooch.
Disc fibula, bronze, enamelled, 180–220 AD, found in Tongeren Gallo-Roman Museum Tongeren
literature
- MJ Bode: Germanic Disc Brooches. A brief overview of the research status of selected forms. In: Jürgen Kunow (Ed.): 100 years of fibula shapes according to Oskar Almgren. Wünsdorf 1998, pp. 321–338, ISBN 3-910011-17-9 .
- Heinrich Beck (Ed.): Fibel and Fibeltracht. Reprint from Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde . Berlin, 2000, ISBN 3-11-016858-8 .
Web links
- Search for disc primers in the German Digital Library
- Search for disc primers in the SPK digital portal of the Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation