A gorgeous Merovingian rock crystal buckle w/ silver tongue, early-mid6thC from Marne, France: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=90020&partId=1 …pic.twitter.com/jcBqnUzDTd
History, archaeology, place-names & early lit. Main research on post-Roman Britain & Anglo-Saxon England; also long-distance trade, migration & contact.
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A gorgeous Merovingian rock crystal buckle w/ silver tongue, early-mid6thC from Marne, France: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=90020&partId=1 …pic.twitter.com/jcBqnUzDTd
An Eastern Germanic rock crystal buckle of c.AD 500 w/ a 6thC Byzantine tongue: http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1995.54/ …pic.twitter.com/66rth9130r
A rock crystal faceted spindle whorl, from Alfriston grave 65, East Sussex, c. AD 500-560: http://www.kornbluthphoto.com/images/Alfriston65angle.jpg …pic.twitter.com/EswLvy6gcn
A beautiful rock crystal ball pendant in gold, from 7thC Picquigny, France: https://www.flickr.com/photos/kotomi-jewelry/4165696423/in/photostream/ …pic.twitter.com/9VXy5BedGq
A dark crystal ball encased in gold, from the probable burial of the Merovingian Queen Wisigard, d.c.540: http://m.fnp.de/lokales/kreise_of_gross-gerau/Koeniginnen-der-Merowinger;art688,238135 …pic.twitter.com/BbWfpZfWYI
The 9thC Warminster Jewel, an æstel (manuscript pointer) of rock crystal set in gold w/ blue glass/lapis lazuli: http://www.salisburymuseum.org.uk/collections/wessex-gallery/warminster-jewel …pic.twitter.com/ydbwTj1TsW
The detectorist who found this dropped into my museum a few years ago and was telling me the story of the complications that ensue when a landowner dies when the acquisition process is going through...
Oh, how interesting — presumably makes any agreements null? Or not?
As far as I remember the original landowner passed away while the agreement about payment was going through, and there was a delay while probate was happening and a new agreement made with the heir.
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