The Viking Age tool chest from Mästermyr, Gotland: http://www.academia.edu/6344172/THE_MASTERMYR_FIND_A_Viking_Age_Tool_Chest_from_Gotland … (pic=https://www.flickr.com/photos/historiska/4995468309/in/photostream/ …)pic.twitter.com/K0ogO1g6R6
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Silver melted into bars from the 9thC Spillings Hoard, now in Gotland Museum: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Silver_bars_Spillings_Hoard_2.jpg …pic.twitter.com/8v5GqFN7Mm
A Viking drop-shaped face pendant, from a hoard on Gotland, Sweden: http://mis.historiska.se/mis/sok/bild.asp?uid=17498 …pic.twitter.com/wFseYzWMCy
Two 13thC rings with sapphires from Sri Lanka, found Visby, Gotland + Svärta, Södermanland: http://samla.raa.se/xmlui/bitstream/handle/raa/8409/2014_259.pdf …pic.twitter.com/VDRKot2qks
Inscription on the 1st ring = 'I am called sapphire. My task is to conquer poison. I will be called yours. Once I was the ring of Ludovicus'
That inscription is positively goose-bumpy.
Agreed!
@caitlinrgreen Compare & contrast the wonders of early world wide jewellry to the bland tat advertised on modern TV!
@Tweets2CV True, tho TV prob doesn't represent the best of modern jewellery! :)
@caitlinrgreen That is why you are the doctor. I never thought of that.
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