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Until recently a single bronze fibula of Münsingen type was the only item which could be linked to the
Early La Tène settlement of this area - it was most probably discovered on the territory of Ptuj, perhaps
even on Panorama. It is a small fibula with a massive thickened semicircular shaped bow and a cross-
bow spring with three coils. The shorter foot is, on that part where the pin fits to it, decorated with oblique inci-
sions. At the end, where the foot leans against the bow, it is widened in the form of an oval pierced plate with cut
edges finishing in a smaller palmete shaped protuberance.
It is a form of fibulae occurring in three regions – in north-western Hungary and southern Slovakia; in
south-western Bohemia and in western Switzerland. Outside of these areas examples are known only from
Dürrnberg, Pottenbrunn and Mannersdorf in Austria, Rast in Bavaria and Ptuj. Despite similarities fibulae
from different territories could be divided according to specific elements of manufacture. Based on the shape
and modeling of the plate and the palmete shaped protuberance at the end of the foot, we can assume that the
fibula from Ptuj, being identical to the find from Rast, comes from Swiss workshops. Consequently it is one of
the oldest items, produced in the new Late Iron Age style, discovered on the territory of Slovenia.
On the territory of central Slovenia numerous artifacts were discovered in late Early Iron Age centers which
are characterized by the new Late Iron Age style of manufacture and decoration. Weapons, jewelry and deco-
rational items could be explained as the results of cultural contacts and trading networks lasting for centuries.
Some of these items also influenced the development of local production on the territory south of the Alps. It is
assumed that first Celtic communities, when entering in to northern Italy, followed these trading routes at the
end of the 5th and beginning of the 4th century BC. These migrations transformed the networks and contacts,
but still individual items from the central Alpine are were brought to Slovenia in the beginning of 4th century
BC. In the next decades, this territory was settled by the newcomers from the east.
Until recently a single bronze fibula of Münsingen type was the only item which could be linked to the
Early La Tène settlement of this area - it was most probably discovered on the territory of Ptuj, perhaps
even on Panorama. It is a small fibula with a massive thickened semicircular shaped bow and a cross-
bow spring with three coils. The shorter foot is, on that part where the pin fits to it, decorated with oblique inci-
sions. At the end, where the foot leans against the bow, it is widened in the form of an oval pierced plate with cut
edges finishing in a smaller palmete shaped protuberance.
It is a form of fibulae occurring in three regions – in north-western Hungary and southern Slovakia; in
south-western Bohemia and in western Switzerland. Outside of these areas examples are known only from
Dürrnberg, Pottenbrunn and Mannersdorf in Austria, Rast in Bavaria and Ptuj. Despite similarities fibulae
from different territories could be divided according to specific elements of manufacture. Based on the shape
and modeling of the plate and the palmete shaped protuberance at the end of the foot, we can assume that the
fibula from Ptuj, being identical to the find from Rast, comes from Swiss workshops. Consequently it is one of
the oldest items, produced in the new Late Iron Age style, discovered on the territory of Slovenia.
On the territory of central Slovenia numerous artifacts were discovered in late Early Iron Age centers which
are characterized by the new Late Iron Age style of manufacture and decoration. Weapons, jewelry and deco-
rational items could be explained as the results of cultural contacts and trading networks lasting for centuries.
Some of these items also influenced the development of local production on the territory south of the Alps. It is
assumed that first Celtic communities, when entering in to northern Italy, followed these trading routes at the
end of the 5th and beginning of the 4th century BC. These migrations transformed the networks and contacts,
but still individual items from the central Alpine are were brought to Slovenia in the beginning of 4th century
BC. In the next decades, this territory was settled by the newcomers from the east.
