A 6thC Anglo-Saxon amber necklace from Sleaford: 242 amber beads from this grave alone... http://collection.britishmuseum.org/resource?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fcollection.britishmuseum.org%2Fid%2Fobject%2FMCS1937 …pic.twitter.com/5hFLmdlKw5
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A lovely L6thC pin, also from Sleaford AS cem, decorated w/ face, birds+serpents. Details: https://www.google.com/culturalinstitute/asset-viewer/silver-gilt-dress-pin/IgERVzP_VtFKsQ …pic.twitter.com/XYLFbBkhS7
7thC Anglo-Saxon silver pins w/ garnet decoration of bird heads+cross, found Kent+Derbyshire http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=87570&partId=1&place=37035&plaA=37035-3-1&sortBy=imageName&page=1 …pic.twitter.com/2KWVrcYpYL
From the same cem in Kent (Wingham), a lovely silver-gilt disc brooch w/ garnet+shell bosses http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=96180&partId=1&place=37035&plaA=37035-3-1&sortBy=imageName&page=1 …pic.twitter.com/SV4g0te65W
Fwiw, interesting to ponder if some link between ASs at Sleaford & the Baltic: not only amber but pottery...? http://www.caitlingreen.org/2016/01/oxygen-isotope-scandinavia.html#fn11 … (fn11)
@caitlinrgreen Do we know, apart from language any cultural differences between post Romano Brits & the Germanic "mercenaries" & settlers?
@DaveAtherton20 Less than one might think, perhaps, but Britain had been under Roman control for several centuries etc...
@DaveAtherton20 ...so Romanized legal etc system? Gildas mentions judges and governors etc still in existence in L5/E6thC
@caitlinrgreen Thanks Caitlin you are my must read Tweeter.
@DaveAtherton20 Very kind, thank you! :)
@caitlinrgreen ooh, this is something interesting to mention alongside Sutton Hoo too - the gems just keep on coming ;)
@krmaude Absolutely! Def concentration of wealth in female graves, lots of lovely examples ;) Also, considered arch evidence for queens?
@caitlinrgreen bit of an amateur theory from me but could it be because of proximity to the coast.Amber washes up in E Anglia poss Lincs too
@notnelgmit It's been suggested, but now generally viewed as almost certainly Baltic in origin :)
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