Post Day - Fibulae

Author: Fibulae (clasps) belong to the jewelry that is used for fastening clothes. Parts of the fibulae are: foot, bow, spring and pin. They can be made from one piece of metal or from several parts. Fibulae are usually made of bronze, sometimes of precious metal or in combination of different metals.

A large number of fibulae types from prehistoric times are called after the sites or by their characteristic shapes: violin bow fibulae, spiral fibulae, spectacle fibulae, arched fibulae, posamenterie fibulae, one-looped and double-looped arched fibulae, etc. Posamenterie fibulae were very decorative but because of the difficulty and complexity they have lost their primary function. Double-looped arched fibulae appear at the beginning of the early Iron Age. Spectacle fibulae are made of two fused discs of spiral wire. Typical western-Balkan arched fibulae occur in the older Iron Age. It is called fibulae type Golinjevo according to the village in Livno municipality. It is represented on Delmatae area, from Cetina till Neretva River. Arched one-looped fibulae Delmatae type Golinjevo was made in the technique of cast bronze, hammering and hand decoration. Fibulae are characteristic by their shapes in different prehistoric periods, so they are very significant movable archeological material for sites dating. (Radoslav Dodig)