Fibules wisigothiques et de type germanique en Gaule méridionale

Abstract

Recent research on Germanic imports in Western Europe allow one to pinpoint, in Southern France, a group of twenty or so fibulae showing common characteristics with Visigothic examples better known in Spain. The repartition of these fibulae correspond well to the area of Visigothic cultural influence. They are dated at the extreme end of the 5th century and thefirst third of the 6th century. The french series can be considered as an original produce of the Western Goths, who seem to have adopted and conserved in Gaul a mediterranean artisanal tradition. The presence, in the same areas, of diverse germanics fibules anteriore to the Visigothic period could explain the adoption and fabrication of thèse models, in germanised Aquitaine, from the 5th century onwards.