The Female Costume of the East Germanic Tradition Featuring Big Two-Plate Brooches in the North Caucasus in the Great Migration Period
Journal: Slovenská archeológia
Year: 2021

This paper addresses the female costume of the East Germanic tradition which was widespread in the North Caucasus throughout the Great Migration period. It was characterised by one or two big two-plate brooches (measuring more than 10 cm in length) worn on the chest or shoulders. Germanic elements, in female costume in particular, spread through the material culture of the North Caucasus in the early stage of the Great Migration period, in the last third of the 4 th c. and the first decades of t