A lovely L5thC gold & garnet cloisonné belt-buckle + a hilt, from Esslingen, southern Germany: http://www.museum-digital.de/bawue/index.php?t=objekt&oges=455 …pic.twitter.com/2r43Fa4psM
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A large 7thC Merovingian silver+iron buckle, from Amiens, Somme, France, decorated w/ Style II http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/pe_mla/i/iron_and_silver_buckle.aspx …pic.twitter.com/Uj1FiuzibF
Another v nice silver+iron Merovingian buckle, in the @V_and_A :)https://twitter.com/SurreyMedieval/status/631156540679016450 …
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/4K6GxtaYJz
A ?Gothic 4th-5thC dark red glass and gold triangular buckle, poss from Crimea/S. Russia, via https://www.pinterest.com/pin/171559067030203449/ …pic.twitter.com/BGzNVCwdTJ
Another 6thC Frankish rock crystal buckle w gold+garnet bird-head tongue, sadly unprovenanced https://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/16016956_merovingian-gold-and-garnet-buckle …pic.twitter.com/bojeZ9rTak
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/2yk43RwMKA
A 6thC dark crystal ball pendant, bound in silver, from Chessell Down grave 45: http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/02/roman-mosaics-from-lincolnshire.html …pic.twitter.com/T2TRAJIVsy
Another rock crystal ball pendant in gold, from 7thC Picquigny, France, now in the Ashmolean https://www.flickr.com/photos/kotomi-jewelry/4165694981 …pic.twitter.com/f3DA6DAMr9
A dark crystal ball encased in gold, from prob burial of Merovingian Queen Wisigard, d.c.540 http://m.fnp.de/lokales/kreise_of_gross-gerau/Koeniginnen-der-Merowinger;art688,238135 …pic.twitter.com/COJECyo7Vy
Viking rock crystal and silver pendant, Domerarve, Öja, Gotland: https://m.flickr.com/#/photos/historiska/13618002963/in/set-72157643390096015/ …pic.twitter.com/acH0WfLycU
6thC spindle whorls+beads from Rhenen, the Netherlands, made from rock crystal, glass+amber http://www.kornbluthphoto.com/images/Rhenen413beads.jpg …pic.twitter.com/zxOm7ygiTp
A lovely, & v large, Anglo-Saxon bead---suggested poss "magical", found in grave in Oxon https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/beta/u/0/asset/magical-glass-bead/kwEc-y89EKyiIg …pic.twitter.com/KFqTSSs8XT
@ElmetArch Wow that's beautiful! When u say large what size could u compare it to?
About the size of a clementine? :)
Thats impressive! Any ideas how they made them..??
@caitlinrgreen this is my new favorite thing ever and I want one. Seriously started planning a museum heist the moment I saw it ;)
@medievalhistory hah! It is stunning! :)
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