Roman glass of the day: mosaic glass used as an inset in a necklace in Kent. @caitlinrgreen
Pretty unique if Romanhttps://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/554356043627909121 …
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@caitlinrgreen saw this, stunning. was intrigued about the Millefiori, not common Roman patterns at all. Iron Age? Frankish Reticella?
@BirgittaHoffman Thought to be imported from Near East iirc, tho' some evidence for production at Wearmouth-Jarrow in Middle Saxon period :)
@caitlinrgreen The Wearmouth production is most likely window glass, rather than canes, there is some cane working in Ireland...
@BirgittaHoffman I had the impression that there was working, via http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archiveDS/archiveDownload?t=arch-1416-1/dissemination/pdf/978-1-873-59294-6_ALL.pdf … pp.263-7 & http://www.blackwellreference.com/public/tocnode?id=g9780470656327_chunk_g978047065632714_ss1-32 …
@caitlinrgreen @BirgittaHoffman very beautiful collection.
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