Beak brooch
The bill Primer ( English Beak brooch - Swedish näbbfubula ) is a bronze fibula in Vendelstil even animal style which are sold in Scandinavia found in different variants. Beak brooches were part of the women's costume in Sweden during the Vendel Period (550–800 AD) . On the southern Swedish site of Uppåkra (near Lund ) alone , which dates back to 400 AD and is compared in terms of its importance with Helgö at the same time , more than 200 fibulae of this type were discovered, making the site the most important trading center in this region and Phase makes. The beak brooch is also part of contemporary women's clothing on Bornholm .
Outside of Scandinavia it is one of the rarities. South of the Baltic Sea , there is a concentration of beaked brooches in the Altmark in the Stendal area . Individual finds come from Aken near Köthen and Göttingen . Another bronze beak brooch was found not far from Usedom on the island of the same name. It lay together with a gilded animal head foot, a primer from the Migration Period and other finds in the area of a late imperial settlement. The 4.6 cm long Usedom fibula with openwork arms belongs to the early type of beak fibula and dates to the second half of the 6th century. A beak brooch with closed arms from the area around Menzlin belongs to the 7th century .
This means that there are two such primers in Western Pomerania , which point to contacts with Scandinavia. Other finds from Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania , also dating back to the end of the end of the period, are the dragon fibula from Nehringen , the bird fibulae from Dierkow and Schönfeld, the Thuringian pincer fibulae from Schwanbeck and Friedland, the remains of clasp helmets from Demmin and Sukow, the bow brooches from Rossow, Kölln and Groß Pankow, as well as one golden bird's vertebrae with almandine inlays , which was found in Schwerin -Mueß.
Some of the finds from the 6th and 7th centuries were in the immediate vicinity of Slavic and Germanic sites. It can be assumed that the "Northmen" had trade contacts with the respective regions, but south of the Baltic Sea , unlike in Scandinavia, there were no early trading centers comparable to Gudme , Stevns, Uppåkra or similar places. For Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania there are signs of sporadic contact, as there are no concentrations of Scandinavian finds from this period.