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The most important item displayed in this room is a small gold
stud with inlays (en cloisonnée), the only remain
belonging to the so-called “Treasure of Domagnano” still
preserved in the Republic of San Marino.
Around 1892-93, numerous pieces
of jewellery were found by accident about 500 m. east of the
village of Domagnano. Such gold jewels (earrings, fibulas,
hair pins, decorative studs, a necklace and a ring) are all of
exquisite workmanship and inlaid with cells containing
coloured stones.
Most probably, all these jewels,
today known as the “Treasure of Domagnano”, were the ornaments
of an Ostrogoth noblewoman buried in that place around 500
A.D.
The Treasure
of Domagnano, considered “one of the most spectacular and
important finds of the Italian Ostrogoth period”, is now
scattered in various European and American museums. The
pendant of the stud displayed in San Marino Museum, which,
according to the experts, is the ornament of a small purse,
can be seen in the British Museum of London.
This room also gathers some architectural
elements of the Middle Ages and some archaeological remains
found in Castellaro and belonging to the ancient fortalice of
Casole destroyed by a fire in the 13th century. In this site,
inhabited since very ancient times, numerous remains of
different periods have been found, among which two extremely
rare coins minted in Milan by Berengario I, King of Italy
between 888 and 915.
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