BRACELETS WITH WIDENED ENDS MADE FROM PRECIOUS METALS OF THE LATE ROMAN AND THE GREAT MIGRATION PERIOD: DANUBE-DNIEPER-BALTIC PARALLELS
Journal: Nizhnevolzhskiy Arheologicheskiy Vestnik
Year: 2024

By the 5th century AD, massive gold bracelets with widened ends had become prestigious cultural elements, symbolizing the power of the barbarian tribal groups’ rulers. The areas where such finds were discovered are located primarily in the Carpathian-Danube region and Gallia. Under the influence of this fashion for displaying high social status, bracelets with thickened ends made from silver, the material available to the tribes in the western part of the East European Plain, became widespread i