A pair of gorgeous 6thC Visigothic eagle brooches, found SW Spain: http://art.thewalters.org/detail/77441/pair-of-eagle-fibula/ … & http://jpdubs.hautetfort.com/media/00/01/2837616.jpg …pic.twitter.com/xgJS4KXNBi
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@caitlinrgreen: On the Gepids (and for the image of a single eagle mount) see, for example, http://www.mpov.uw.edu.pl/en/thesaurus/tribes-and-peoples/gepids …
@caitlinrgreen But they were 'barbarians'... ;-)
Shift to eagle brooches seems to be 5thC; more ex from http://www.gnm.de/ausstellungen/dauerausstellung/vor-und-fruehgeschichte/ … , https://m.flickr.com/#/photos/antiquitiesproject/5822436593/ … & Pinterestpic.twitter.com/cjUHESCEgz
More Eagles from Romania, prob Gothic & mid5thC, this time brooches: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3jU9AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA124&lpg=PA124 … & http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietroasele_Treasure …pic.twitter.com/fuUWaWxhVz
@caitlinrgreen They are absolutely gorgeous.
@EquineAnn oh, absolutely! Though look a bit unwieldy to wear! :)
@caitlinrgreen Definitely.
Two 5thC East Germanic (Gepidic) brooches from the Treasure of Untersiebenbrunn, Austria: http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Paar_Prunkfibeln.jpg …pic.twitter.com/qkRWbBQ4yp
Detail of an E5thC Eastern Germanic brooch from the Danube region: http://www.metmuseum.org/collection/the-collection-online/search/468181?=&imgno=2&tabname=label …pic.twitter.com/VmUzCMQK6a
@caitlinrgreen I require this one. It will give me an excuse to wear clothes from that period.
@caitlinrgreen I'd be a terrible ancient German. :P.
Burial possibly that of the Gepid king Ardaric, a very close ally of Attila, who prob died in 3rd quarter of 5thC:https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3jU9AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA124&lpg=PA124#v=onepage&q&f=false …
Detail of the head of one of the probably mid-5thC eagle brooches in the Pietroasa treasure, Romania: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Closca_cu_puii_de_aur_IMG_1664.JPG …pic.twitter.com/JEeP3ywIwB
@caitlinrgreen @morangles I love late antique garnet pieces! But never seen anything like this style. So fluid! Is that usual for Huns?
@medievalhistory @morangles They're stunning & pretty exceptional! Poss burial of Gepid king+close ally of Attila:https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=3jU9AAAAIAAJ&pg=PA124&lpg=PA124#v=onepage&q&f=false …
@caitlinrgreen @medievalhistory this summer going to Kolm Roman musuem where they have lovely dark ages items such aspic.twitter.com/4YE1h6Z0q4
@morangles @caitlinrgreen @medievalhistory I do not see it as a dark age.
@Archatgs @caitlinrgreen @medievalhistory but it became a dark age when Carolinigian upstarts started saying it was one #hiddenagenda
@morangles @Archatgs @medievalhistory Interesting that, from perspective of slavery, Carolingians appear worse...https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/549297390629699585 …
@caitlinrgreen @morangles @medievalhistory so we can say that the slavery was more worse under christianity than under pagan Romans.
@Archatgs @morangles well, *if* shackles correlate with it, peak is in late pagan era, halves under Christian emperors... Tho' note distrib!
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