Germanic Crossbow Brooch

Germanic crossbow brooch with a folded foot.

Here you can buy a replica of a so-called crossbow brooch with a folded foot, which dates back to the Migration Period.

The brooch was found in a woman's grave in an East Prussian cemetery and was used to close the woman's peplos on the shoulders.

Link to the original crossbow brooch…

The crossbow brooch with a folded foot developed in the course of Late Antiquity or at the beginning of the Migration Period around 200 - 450 AD and was particularly widespread among Germanic peoples.

This type of crossbow fibula is known as fibula type 161 according to Almgren. It is a typical hybrid of the early brooches with a folded foot of the Latène period and the later Roman crossbow brooches.

You can buy this brooch in high-quality bronze or genuine silver-plated.
Alternatively, also available in 925 sterling silver (please note the delivery time).
Alloy...

The crossbow brooch replica measures 5 x 2.5 x 1.5 cm.

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The crossbow brooch has appeared in many variations over the centuries. Crossbow brooches in the broader sense also include eye brooches, roller cap brooches, knee brooches and their variants, as well as the group of so-called strongly profiled brooches and, in their further development, the onion-head brooch.

The crossbow brooch developed 550 - 450 BC at the end of the Hallstatt period from the Certosa brooch and was common in the Latène period, mainly in the south-eastern Alps, from where it spread to other regions of Central Europe.

In the 1st to 3rd century BC, the Roman type of crossbow brooch became increasingly widespread, also appearing in the Limes forts on the Rhine and in cemeteries in free Germania as the so-called Elbe brooch.

In the late Roman period, mixed forms developed from the so-called brooches with a folded foot and the crossbow brooches of the Roman period. These broches were widespread as far as Bohemia, Scandinavia and the Baltic during the Migration Period and date from the middle of the 3rd century to the end of the 4th century.