• Province of Perugia, Region Umbria, Italien

With its 165 documented graves, the cemetery of Nocera Umbra is one of the most important Lombard burial places in Italy. In keeping with its long period of usage from ca. 570 to 690, the cemetery provides a range of grave inventories that demonstrate a gradual mixture of Germanic and Romanic burial customs.

Grave 10
A girl's grave. The girl was interred with the four-fibula costume typical of the region of Pannonia.

1. Silver bowed fibula with a rectangular head plate, fire gilded.
2. Pair of silver S-shaped fibulae, fire gilded.
3. Beaded necklace with one lead crystal bead, one carnelian bead, and seven amethyst beads.
4. Two silver hair pins.

• Photographed while on display from 22 August 2008 to 11 January 2009 in the exhibition "Die Langobarden. Das Ende der Völkerwanderung" at the Rheinisches LandesMuseum Bonn. On loan from the Museo nazionale dell'Alto Medioevo, Rome.