113 Christianisation
By wearing fibulae with Christian symbolism, women illustrated their affiliation to the new faith. The disc-shaped specimens come from various graves in the Wulfsen cemetery. They were a regular mass article during their time between the Elbe and the Rhine. The cross-shaped clasp was found in a Saxon settlement on Hamburg's Domplatz.
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Cross Fibula
Age: 800 - 900 n. Chr. Middle Ages
Middle Ages: The beginning of the Middle Ages is generally equated with the end of the migration of peoples in Europe, which came to a halt at about the end of the 5th or beginning of the 6th century AD, and the concomitant collapse of the Western Roman Empire. The Middle Ages stood between antiquity and modern times and are characterised by the confluence of Christian and ancient as well as Celtic, Germanic and Slavic developments. With the Renaissance and the Reformation, the modern era began at the latest at the beginning of the 16th century.
Material: (?)
Location: HH-Altstadt
Disc Fibulae (with Cross Depiction)
Age: 800 - 900 n. Chr. Middle Ages
Middle Ages: The beginning of the Middle Ages is generally equated with the end of the migration of peoples in Europe, which came to a halt at about the end of the 5th or beginning of the 6th century AD, and the concomitant collapse of the Western Roman Empire. The Middle Ages stood between antiquity and modern times and are characterised by the confluence of Christian and ancient as well as Celtic, Germanic and Slavic developments. With the Renaissance and the Reformation, the modern era began at the latest at the beginning of the 16th century.
Material: Bronze
Location: Wulfsen