This article discusses the beautiful “crossbow” type fibula, bronze with silver details, 3rd-4th century AD, excavated at Municipium DD site in Soqanicë, near Albaniku of Kosovo (Dardania).

Municipium Dardanorum (also called Municipium Dardanicum) is a documented Roman site in northern Kosovo near Sočanicë, Dardania, occupied from the 2nd through the 4th century CE. It was a Roman mining town with archaeological excavations revealing artifacts from that period.

Archaeological Inventory Lists

A published artifact inventory (Republic of Kosovo Ministry document) lists multiple bronze fibulae dating to the 3rd–4th centuries recovered at Ulpiana and at Municipium DD, Soqanicë.