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From the abundance of belt buckles that can be found in almost every grave, it can

be concluded
that a belt was an essential part of both men and women. The iron buckles have
oval, round,
neir-shaped or square frames and always have a massive, curved pin. One example of
an iron buckle
was decorated with thickly coiled thin silver wire. The pieces made of silver and
bronze also
differ in shape and size. The most numerous are buckles with an oval frame and a
massive bent pin,
which is triangular in section. On some, the mandrel is reinforced by a shield-
shaped base.
Some bronze buckles are connected to rectangular or elliptical fittings made of
double-bent sheet
metal that was used to attach the buckle to the belt. Sometimes small rivets with
dome-shaped heads
have also been preserved. Byzantine buckles of the sucidava type can be found in
both men's and
women's graves; they are made of silver and bronze, only typical for men's clothing
were a few
examples of belt fittings made of silver and bronze. These are rectangular belt
buckles,
one of which is always connected to the buckle. The fittings belong to two and
three-part sets.
The silver copies are decorated with dense bundles of horizontally incised lines.
Most of the
rivets on these sets have dome-shaped profiled heads. In addition to belt buckles,
belt and shoe buckles were also registered. The rhyme buckles are made of bronze or
silver and
only exceptionally of iron. Buckles for footwear are mainly made of silver, more
rarely of bronze.
Iron shoe buckles apparently weren't made. The shapes of these buckles correspond
to those for belts,
although oval types predominate.

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The belt tongues made of bronze or silver are decorated with incised linear motifs.
According to their function, they were found at belt height. The tongues are
rectangular, rounded
at the bottom and have grooves at the top, where the openings for rivets have been
preserved.
They were made using casting technology. In only a few men and women graves were
metal frames
for small bags, made of silver or bronze, never made of iron.

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Due to characteristic grave goods, such as the shield bosses, certain fibulae,
buckles (mainly of
the Sucidava type) as well as ceramic beakers, buckets and the bronze bowl, the
cemetery can be
dated to around the middle of the 6th century.

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