Bodin
This pair of fibulae of the Reggio Emilia type used to fasten the cloak, and the Italo-Ostrogothic belt buckle were found in the grave of a young person. Although made of different materials, their style shows that they come from the same group of workshops which were active in the west Mediterranean region in the second half of the 5th century. The migrations of the Gothic tribes contributed to the spreading of the skill of Black Sea craftsmen in making objects "ad usum barbarorum". This rather coarse polychromatic style was based on a combination of various materials, forms and ornaments, which "pleased the taste of the barbarians". Hence parts of the Germanic costume, probably Ostrogothic in this particular case, can be perceived on the buckle and the fibulae. The decoration of these objects consists of inlaid red semiprecious stones and geometric, floral and zoomorphic designs.
Класичан облик пехара од провидног, безбојног стакла, има лепљену стопу наглашену пластичним ребром каквим је ојачан и отвор. Спирално аплицирана извлачена нит од истог стакла гушће је распоређена при ободу и дну реципијента, а негде се, као код немарне израде, и преплиће.
Чаша је јединствен налаз у области средњег Подунавља, приспела увозом у гранично подручје Царства, можда из неке од радионица у Сирији или Египту које су имале дугу традицију у изради предмета од стакла. Пошто је пехар пронађен у дечјем гробу који припада претежно германској, гепидској или херулској, некрополи, могуће је да ипак потиче из радионице неког западномедитеранског или средњоевропског града, па је у том случају на територију Сингидунума приспео са германским досељеницима.
Како се обичај симболичног полагања стаклених посуда у гробове у читавој Европи најдуже одржао на Балкану, а у околини Београда траје до позног средњег века (српска гробља у Војки, Миријеву и Винчи), постоји реална претпоставка да обичај није везан за Германе већ за аутохтоно-романизовано, или, средином VI столећа овде такође присутно, словенско становништво.
On the round disk, edged with a moulded rib, are the figures in relief of Emperor Constantine and his mother St Helena in the posture of prayer and with a cross between their nimbi. Another relief cross is on the beak, and a third at the bottom of the ring base. The form of the lamp is Asiatic and has no direct analogies in this territory, and the scene on the disk is typical of representations based on Christian iconography. The lamp was probably made by some travelling craftsman in Singidunum itself, which was a cathedral town at that time. It may have been commissioned by a local priest and intended for a church.
This matrix served for the casting of bands with crisscross decoration for rings, of elliptic and round ringlets for chains, and of rhomboid plates which could be used, among other things, as parts of necklaces. The other mould was used for the casting of globular pendants for earrings. Dressed stones for the making of other moulds were discovered together with these finds among the sherds of Slav vessels and tiny pieces of dross on the floor in front of a stone kiln in a sunken longhouse. These finds provide the earliest reliable evidence of Slav gold- workers and their workshops for the casting of metal jewelry.
Parts of a belt and a battle-ax were found in the grave of a warrior.
The pin of the buckle, the belt plates with the representations of busts imitating late classical portraits, and the tendrils with palmettes stylized in the "Persian manner" point to Byzantine models. The few known examples of similar belts come from the Pannonian plain, which shows that the origin of such objects should be perhaps sought in the central Danubian region. Their small number seems to indicate that they were made for some special purpose.
This luxurious belt may have been a token of high military rank or, as it is more likely in this case, a valuable award given in recognition of services rendered in the border zone at the time when the frontiers between the states formed in the former Avar territory were being settled.