Several items from the Italo-Ostrogothic clothing tradition (belt buckles and fibulae) appeared in Crimea and on the Taman peninsula in the 6th century. These objects bear witness to the displacement of groups of the Italo-Ostrogothic population towards the North of the Black Sea. It is quite possible that this migration happened within Justinian's military policy, as a deportation of prisoners of war with their families and their settlements on the distant borders of the Eastern Roman Empire.