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Fibulae: The Brooches of the Ancient World
Fibulae are an archeological family of brooches that fastened clothing and outerwear, pre- buttons and zippers. There is a semantics disagreement here: the British Isles uses the term limitedly for Continental European items, while elsewhere the term is used with