The rear of the 7thC Kingston Brooch is also rather lovely, as the Rev Faussett's mid-18thC illustration shows:pic.twitter.com/TNhFFS29KU
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The rear of the 7thC Kingston Brooch is also rather lovely, as the Rev Faussett's mid-18thC illustration shows:pic.twitter.com/TNhFFS29KU
More details of the grave & finds: http://blog.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/2010/06/the-kingston-brooch-anglo-saxon-bling/ … & http://inventorium.arch.ox.ac.uk/grave.php?site_ID=Kin&grave_ID=Kin205 … Image via https://finds.org.uk/staffshoardsymposium/papers/karenhoilundnielsen …pic.twitter.com/inWsFH2GGB
Detail of the centre of the exceptionally large 7thC Kingston Down brooch from Kent, discovered in 1771: http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/wml/collections/blitz/evacuees/item-381789.aspx …pic.twitter.com/zyhP3n1bRH
The rear of the 7thC Kingston Brooch is also rather lovely: http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/wml/collections/blitz/evacuees/item-381789.aspx …pic.twitter.com/OAhSw4vvKR
That is no brooch, that is a shield! ;)
Hah! It's certainly a magnificent thing...! :)
Stuff like that is why I love history, someone, a long time ago, sat down to make beauty. And it came to us. :)
@caitlinrgreen World Museum L'pool?
@caitlinrgreen How have I not spotted it before? Shall track it down this weekend :)
@QueensClassics Don't forget to take some pics! :)
@caitlinrgreen Shall do!
@caitlinrgreen very beautiful, the design is more for men.
@Archatgs no, it's the brooch of high-status Anglo-Saxon woman.
@caitlinrgreen Ok, but maybe the militarization of Anglo-Saxon society had influence on the design. it is almost like miniature shield.
@caitlinrgreen @aethelflaed 'Tis beautiful. A case of, in jewelry, More is More.
@MiBudy @caitlinrgreen Oh yes! And if I had a collection of walloping A-S brooches, I'd wear them ALL AT THE SAME TIME.
@caitlinrgreen How beautiful!
@caitlinrgreen if without word: Brooch and its diameter, I would think it shield.
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