The fifth- or sixth-century AD Escrick Ring, found in Yorkshire, set with a central cabochon sapphire gem probably from Sri Lanka: https://www.medieval.eu/the-esrick-ring/ …pic.twitter.com/RvUpzAadeC
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The fifth- or sixth-century AD Escrick Ring, found in Yorkshire, set with a central cabochon sapphire gem probably from Sri Lanka: https://www.medieval.eu/the-esrick-ring/ …pic.twitter.com/RvUpzAadeC
Seal matrix of Alaric II, King of Visigoths, 484–507 — sapphire intaglio in 16th-century gold ring: http://www.kornbluthphoto.com/Alaric.html pic.twitter.com/KHgSrlFHzo
For interest, the distribution of Byzantine pottery (black) and coins (red) in 5th- to 7th-century Britain; the Indo-Pacific beads in Europe presumably came via a Byzantine Red Sea port (e.g. 51% of the beads found at the port of Berenike, Egypt, were Indo-Pacific).pic.twitter.com/aY8CYUEO38
Indo-Pacific and other beads found in the Late Antique trash dump trench BE10-59 at Berenike, Egypt: http://www.ancientportsantiques.com/wp-content/uploads/Documents/PLACES/RedSea/Berenike-Sidebotham-Sahara%2021-2010.pdf …pic.twitter.com/bQxNsIKWTF
Pepper from India found in a 5th-century AD context at the Early Byzantine port of Berenike, Egypt: http://gernot-katzers-spice-pages.com/engl/Pipe_nig.html …pic.twitter.com/poWxfRN1oj
A Romano-British spice/pepper container in the shape of an ibex from the 5th-century AD Hoxne Hoard found in Suffolk, on display in the Indo-Roman trade section of the Hotung Gallery, British Museum; photo & fascinating article by @SushmaJansari here: http://thewonderhouse.co.uk/behind-the-scenes-at-the-british-museum-indo-roman-trade-in-the-hotung-gallery … :)pic.twitter.com/3L7XSOmw9j
The 'Empress' pepper pot from the 5th-century Romano-British Hoxne Hoard, found in Suffolk; used for dispensing pepper or another spice at the dining table: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=1362638&partId=1 …pic.twitter.com/ScxU7Uj267
Worth noting that pepper from India continued to be available in NW Europe in the 7th/8th centuries e.g. Chlothar III granted an annual rent of 30 pounds of pepper to Corbie monastery (N. France) in the mid-7thC, and Bede's personal possessions incl pepper when he died in 735 AD.pic.twitter.com/dn7Y03nbH8
Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted
Interestingly, the same document concerning the monastery of Corbie in northern France (reconfirmed by Chilperic II in 716) also mentions an annual quantity of 2 pounds of cloves, which were only grown in Indonesia—see https://twitter.com/siwaratrikalpa/status/1007600535443263488 … :)
Dr Caitlin Green added,
Can you see a drop in the number of these evidence after the plague of the 540s (K Harper says it led to Europeans turning inwards) or after the 630s (Pirenne's thesis)? Or was everything chummy, no breaks?
Of beads? Yes, definitely what's seen in Europe, a mid sixth century drop off.
Thanks a lot, your previous tweets got me worried for a while
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