Horst Wolfgang Böhme, . Mainz: Verlag des Römisch-Germanische Zentralmuseums, 2020, 250 pp, 77 ill., and 12 maps

This book represents the latest study of this important material by the renowned German archaeologist Horst Wolfgang Böhme, until 2005 Professor of Ancient History and Medieval Archaeology at the University of Marburg. It is no exaggeration to say that despite the large number of scholars internationally working on metalwork produced by the ‘barbarian’ peoples of the fourth- to seventh- centuries, Böhme is the leading specialist in this field – a position he has held for decades. Indeed, his lifelong research, and especially his seminal