Indeed, this fact has been well established in archaeological studies of other “barbarian” areas, in particular Burgundy, Ostrogothic Italy, and Kievan Rus‟. Their appearance at the same time as the creation of the Merovingian kingdom is not surprising. A community inventory uncovered Alemanni, Thuringian, Lombard, Ostrogoth, Danube-German, Anglo-Saxon and Visigoth elements. Despite their small numbers, these people certainly played an important military and social role, as evidenced by the burial of the nobility. The study of burials of the early Merovingian era in such sites as Arcy-Sainte-Restitue, Chassemy, Breny, Saint-Martin-de-Fontenay, and Vicq shows that the new groups who settled in northern Gaul in the fifth and early sixth centuries can be identified primarily by female costume elements of heterogeneous origin.
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