11thC Pitney Brooch, Somerset--Scandinavian Urnes style brooch w/ some Anglo-Saxon features: http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/pe_mla/t/the_pitney_brooch.aspx …pic.twitter.com/jJK2p1WZKt
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An Urnes-style runestone from Uppland, Sweden, colourised in 1991 to protect it from moss etc https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uppland_Runic_Inscription_871 …pic.twitter.com/D6C3S7yqcF
@caitlinrgreen Thanks for posting this again. I just love this thing. The biting animal head is a pure shot of whimsy!
@GeorgeRick1 One of my favourites too! :)
@caitlinrgreen You just don't generally think of that era as one in which whimsy flourished. Shows what we know, or think we know!
@caitlinrgreen Irish History! Marvellous more written then UK by far!
@caitlinrgreen amazing amount of fine detail in that piece. My mind's going numb trying to imagine how to make something like that.
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