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Visigothic belt buckles. 5th- 7th century.

Can’t get enough of all these beautiful golden ornamented objects from this period.

Picture: Germanic Kindgoms in Europe after the fall od the Western Roman Empire. Although the Germans were certainly less sophisticated than their contemporary Romans, Greeks, Egyptians or even the neighboring Celts, which to the Mediterranean world were already considered barbarians, they were to a large degree responsible for the fall of the Western Roman Empire. The Kingdoms which they built upon the ruins of the Imperium gave Europe a new face which can still be recognized today in countries such as France, which was the kingdom and later the Empire of the Franks under Charlemagne (as was Germany) or England, literally the country of the Angles, a tribe from northern Germany which conquered England from the Romano-Britons together with the Saxons, Jutes and Frisians. #german #germans #Germanic #roman #migrationperiod #history #antiquity #middleages #europe https://www.instagram.com/p/CBiXpx6JfGF/?igshid=g9cj12lcoxp2

Looks like a sword, but it is actually a letter opener ✉ It is based of the Snartemo sword, which is a archaeological find from the migration period. The migration period was the time before the vikings.