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 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
A gorgeous Merovingian rock crystal buckle w/ silver tongue, early-mid6thC from Marne, France: http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/highlights/highlight_objects/pe_mla/r/rock_crystal_buckle_with_a_sil.aspx …pic.twitter.com/KqtRPkbkeY
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
@caitlinrgreen They're beautiful, Caitlin, but how would they have shaped the crystal into spheres with the tools available to them
@GeorgeRick1 I have quite literally no idea! :) Assume roughly cut and then polished...???
@caitlinrgreen OK, this may extend past your interest level, but I got to puzzling over it and then Googled it andpic.twitter.com/l52CqwtsNx
@caitlinrgreen found this device from1960 which was designed to shape spheres-it's motor driven but the principal may have been used earlier
@GeorgeRick1 Intriguing! Sounds plausible! ;)
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