Das Grab von Gorzyno / Gohren (woj. pomorskie / PL) mit Stützarmfibel

Abstract

The Grave of Gorzyno / Gohren (Woj. Pomorskie / PL) with Supporting-arm Brooch

The paper deals with a Migration Period grave find discovered at the end of the 1930s or in the 1940s near Gohren, Kreis Stolp in East Pommerania (today Gorzyno, pow. Słupsk, woj. pomorskie / PL). The supraregional character of the burial assemblage, to which a supporting-arm brooch with a perforation for fastening a bracket ring and, in addition, two bird head needles belong, is remarkable and bears witness to the extensive contacts of the funerary community pointing to various directions. The fibula belongs to the supporting-arm brooches with a bar-shaped bow, narrow foot and central axis and was mainly worn in an extensive region both sides of the Lower Rhine. At the same time it belongs to a small group of examples for which the designation »variant Rhenen« is proposed. Such pieces feature a
perforation on the bow-head, in which a cotter with a hanging ring sits. The grave’s two needles belong to a southern Scandinavian context. The assemblage once again emphasises the ever-increasingly discernible, close relationships between the Early Migration Period populations living in the region between the rivers Oder and Vistula and those in distant regions of Western, Central and Northern Europe.