(Incidentally, the above maps are from http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935413.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199935413-e-46 … & https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352226716300095 …; note, the finds of Indo-Pacific beads from Kofun Japan are even more numerous than those from the Yayoi period).
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A 7th-centuy Frankish brooch set with garnets and a sapphire that probably originated in Sri Lanka: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/465373 …pic.twitter.com/qkF500OBCQ
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Votive crown of King Recceswinth, 7thC AD, made of gold, rock crystal, pearls and sapphires: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Orfebrería_visigoda_en_el_MAN_(14234939376)_(2).jpg …pic.twitter.com/wfVa66oAmw
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A late 5th-/early 6th-century paten made from gold, turquoise and Indian/Sri Lankan garnets; found with early 6th-century Byzantine coins and a chalice near Gourdon, France: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trésor_de_Gourdon_02.JPG …pic.twitter.com/UuO541gbks
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I was always fascinated by cowrie shells when I was a child. Collected many tiny tiny shells in the rock chalk on the North Downs.
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