In the period of greatest decline, the area located down in the valley was slowly depopulated but not completely abandoned. The Lombard chronicler Paolo Diacono reports, in fact, the concession of the plain of Saepinum by the Dukes of Benevento in favour of a Bulgarian colony that arrived in the seventh century AD. In this historical phase, the area of the Forum and that of the theatre became burial places; however, there are numerous sporadic finds found at the site, evidence of the peoples who came to the Roman city and chose to settle among the ruined buildings. In particular, on an open-ring bronze fibula, with a pair of facing quadrupeds at the ends, it is possible to recognize a female Germanic name, Aoderada biva (in deo) inscribed on the entire surface. And so, from a pretty accessory worn to secure long robes, we know the name, tastes and fashions among peoples in the early Middle Ages.