Editing Goths (section)

====Visigoths====
{{Main|Visigothic art and architecture}}
[[File:CoronaRecesvinto01.JPG|right|thumb|upright|Detail of the [[votive crown]] of Recceswinth, hanging in Madrid. The hanging letters spell [R]ECCESVINTHVS REX OFFERET [King R. offers this].{{efn|The first R is held at the [[Musée de Cluny]], Paris.}}]]
[[File:Visigothic - Pair of Eagle Fibula - Walters 54421, 54422 - Group.jpg|thumb|Visigothic – Pair of eagle fibulae found at Tierra de Barros (Badajoz, southwest Spain) made of sheet gold with amethysts and coloured glass]]
In [[Spain]] an important collection of Visigothic metalwork was found in the [[treasure of Guarrazar]], [[Guadamur]], [[Province of Toledo]], [[Castile-La Mancha]], an [[Archaeology|archeological]] find composed of twenty-six [[votive crown]]s and gold [[cross]]es from the royal workshop in Toledo, with Byzantine influence. The treasure represents the high point of Visigothic goldsmithery, according to {{harvp|Guerra|Galligaro|Perea|2007}}.{{sfn|Guerra|Galligaro|Perea|2007}} The two most important votive crowns are those of [[Recceswinth]] and of [[Suintila]], displayed in the National Archaeological Museum of Madrid; both are made of gold, encrusted with sapphires, pearls, and other precious stones. Suintila's crown was stolen in 1921 and never recovered. There are several other small crowns and many votive crosses in the treasure.

These findings, along with others from some neighbouring sites and with the archaeological excavation of the Spanish Ministry of Public Works and the Royal Spanish Academy of History (April 1859), formed a group consisting of:
* [[National Archaeological Museum of Spain]]: six crowns, five crosses, a pendant and remnants of foil and channels (almost all of gold).
* [[Royal Palace of Madrid]]: a crown and a gold cross and a stone engraved with the Annunciation. A crown, and other fragments of a tiller with a crystal ball were stolen from the Royal Palace of Madrid in 1921 and its whereabouts are still unknown.
* [[Musée de Cluny|National Museum of the Middle Ages]], Paris: three crowns, two crosses, links and gold pendants.
The aquiliform (eagle-shaped) [[Fibula (brooch)|fibulae]] that have been discovered in [[necropolis]]es such as [[Duratón, Segovia|Duraton]], [[Madrona (Segovia)|Madrona]] or Castiltierra (cities of [[Segovia]]), are an unmistakable indication of the Visigothic presence in Spain. These fibulae were used individually or in pairs, as clasps or pins in gold, bronze and glass to join clothes, showing the work of the goldsmiths of Visigothic Hispania.<ref>{{cite web |title=Eagle Fibula|url=https://art.thewalters.org/detail/16373/eagle-fibula-3/|website=The Walters Art Museum|access-date=27 May 2020|archive-date=30 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201030203226/https://art.thewalters.org/detail/16373/eagle-fibula-3/|url-status=live}}</ref>

The Visigothic belt buckles, a symbol of rank and status characteristic of Visigothic women's clothing, are also notable as works of goldsmithery. Some pieces contain exceptional [[Byzantine art|Byzantine-style]] [[lapis lazuli]] inlays and are generally rectangular in shape, with copper alloy, garnets and glass.<ref>{{cite web |title=Belt Buckle 550–600 |url=https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/466162 |website=The Metropolitan Museum of Art |access-date=5 August 2020 |archive-date=2 September 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200902164100/https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/466162 |url-status=live }}</ref>{{efn|1=Important findings have also been made in the Visigothic [[necropolis]] of Castiltierra ([[Segovia]]) in Spain. See {{cite web |editor=Isabel Arias Sánchez |editor2=Luis Javier Balmaseda Muncharaz |name-list-style=amp |title=La necrópolis de época visigoda de Castiltierra (Segovia) – Excavaciones dirigidas por E. Camps y J. M. de Navascués, 1932–1935 – Materiales conservados en el Museo Arqueológico Nacional: Tomo II, Estudios |language=es |trans-title=The Visigothic necropolis of Castiltierra (Segovia) – Excavations directed by E. Camps and J. M. de Navascués, 1932–1935 – Materials preserved in the National Archaeological Museum, Volume II: Studies |url=http://www.man.es/man/dam/jcr:eb7fea42-15c8-4b6b-b18c-4d940b2656a5/2018-castiltierra-ii.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200614011014/http://www.man.es/man/dam/jcr:eb7fea42-15c8-4b6b-b18c-4d940b2656a5/2018-castiltierra-ii.pdf |archive-date=2020-06-14 |url-status=live}}}}