83 Migration Age
Typical objects from the Migration Period that characterise this turbulent era are this urn, the glass cup, and the two fibulae. Fibulas were part of the costume of Germanic children, men and women; they held the garment together on the shoulder. They were very much subject to fashion and quickly changed their appearance. The occurrence of very similar pieces on the Lower Elbe and in England, as in the case of these fibulae with the same arm, makes the path of Saxon emigrants clear. The glass cup is an import from the Rhineland, and the urn, richly decorated with stamps, has relatives in England. It is further evidence of contacts there from northern Germany.
Info: Showcase 83
Hump Urn
Age: um 400 n. Chr. Migration period
Migration period: Today, the transitional period from Antiquity to the Middle Ages is usually defined as the time of the migrations of the peoples from the 4th to the 6th century and the associated confrontation of the Germanic peoples with the culture of Antiquity and Christianity. However, the penetration of Germanic tribes into the Roman Empire did not mean the complete demise of ancient culture and its social and economic structures, as older research claims. Where the Roman Empire had had a formative influence for centuries, the old structures, institutions and traditions remained partially intact.
Material: Ceramics
Location: Issendorf
Pointed Cup
Age: 400 - 500 n. Chr. Migration period
Migration period: Today, the transitional period from Antiquity to the Middle Ages is usually defined as the time of the migrations of the peoples from the 4th to the 6th century and the associated confrontation of the Germanic peoples with the culture of Antiquity and Christianity. However, the penetration of Germanic tribes into the Roman Empire did not mean the complete demise of ancient culture and its social and economic structures, as older research claims. Where the Roman Empire had had a formative influence for centuries, the old structures, institutions and traditions remained partially intact.
Material: Glass
Location: Altenwalde
Equal-Armed Fibula
Age: um 400 n. Chr. Migration period
Migration period: Today, the transitional period from Antiquity to the Middle Ages is usually defined as the time of the migrations of the peoples from the 4th to the 6th century and the associated confrontation of the Germanic peoples with the culture of Antiquity and Christianity. However, the penetration of Germanic tribes into the Roman Empire did not mean the complete demise of ancient culture and its social and economic structures, as older research claims. Where the Roman Empire had had a formative influence for centuries, the old structures, institutions and traditions remained partially intact.
Material: Bronze
Location: Tötensen