Found of Viking fibel

The "enamel trouser button" as Moesgaard archaeologists found at Bispetorvet is a rare korsemaljefibel Viking.

Since Andres Dobat at Moesgaard Museum had been found in closer inspection, he could tell that this button was in no way a button but against a cross-enamel fibel. Fibel is found in the stuffing around a well from the 1500s, and is therefore removed from its original context. That is something that archaeologists generally sorry, but in this case one should perhaps rejoice, for it may well be the only reason that jewelry is actually preserved as conservation conditions for the metal in the Viking Age strata in Aarhus is extremely low.

A fibel, or as they say in Latin fibula, is a smykkenal with a safety pin-like device on the back to secure the dress. Fibulae used from centuries before Christ's birth until the beginning of 1100 year. Their appearance changed much through the ages. Bispetorv korsemaljefibel is designed as a so-called cell enamel work.

It is the first time that has been such a fibel in Aarhus and although using detektorafsogninger eventually found a part, must type is still considered rare.
  

 

Source (text, photo): Historie-Online.dk