Lovely gold Anglo-Saxon ring from Essex, 580-650 AD, w/ Christian + possibly pagan imagery: http://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/476309 …pic.twitter.com/OrBQeKgEcE
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Not just medieval seals that reused Roman intaglios: 7C Anglo-Saxon ring, Snape ship-burial :) http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?assetId=414072&objectId=87001&partId=1 …pic.twitter.com/CNaDzQt3OK
Btw, both Bruce-Mitford & Filmer-Sankey on Snape AS cem online now: http://suffolkinstitute.pdfsrv.co.uk/customers/Suffolk%20Institute/2014/01/10/Volume%20XXVI%20Part%201%20(1952)_The%20Snape%20boat-grave%20R%20L%20S%20Bruce-Mitford_1%20to%2026.pdf … & http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=58MNMG2-e4oC&pg=PA39&lpg=PA39 …pic.twitter.com/HS7cyaWgNR
A 6th/7thC Merovingian gold ring w/ a ring of cabochon garnets: http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O122051/ring-unknown/ …pic.twitter.com/kbeFxS7IPx
@caitlinrgreen strikingly similar to the Late Roman signet rings from Britain. Surely some continuity going on!pic.twitter.com/dGf8dd6cJk
The mid-6thC "Dover Ring", found 1972, w/ a garnet stone set in a quatrefoil bezel: http://www.dovermuseum.co.uk/information-resources/the-collection/saxon-ring.aspx … (pic: M. Bunker, via Pinterest)pic.twitter.com/o6PFN90nqY
A small hoard of 7th–11thC Anglo-Saxon rings from West Yorkshire: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Hoard_of_Anglo-Saxon_rings.jpg …pic.twitter.com/h270CTTuOn
@caitlinrgreen Sapphire? I don't think there were any deposits in Europe or Near East?
@JAJafri no, def an import--very rare indeed in this period!
@caitlinrgreen those are gorgeous
@greg_jenner Aren't they just! :)
@caitlinrgreen @BonyardB Hard to credit the age of these beautiful pieces.
@caitlinrgreen @gallimaufrey777 Those Anglo-Saxons really liked their bling...
@caitlinrgreen that ring is stunning.
@caitlinrgreen @tonyriches Gorgeous!
that is stunning
It was probably not made in ASE
@caitlinrgreen @greg_jenner QVC has improved loads recently hasn't it?
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