A L4-E5thC gold+garnet 'pushmi-pullyu' (=goats!) from a catacomb grave at Kerch, Crimea, see http://www.mpov.uw.edu.pl/en/thesaurus/tribes-and-peoples/ostrogoths- …pic.twitter.com/dUvPsJoeEp
History, archaeology, place-names & early lit. Main research on post-Roman Britain & Anglo-Saxon England; also long-distance trade, migration & contact.
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A L4-E5thC gold+garnet 'pushmi-pullyu' (=goats!) from a catacomb grave at Kerch, Crimea, see http://www.mpov.uw.edu.pl/en/thesaurus/tribes-and-peoples/ostrogoths- …pic.twitter.com/dUvPsJoeEp
Two gold+garnet lions from the recent Russian Fatezhsky treasure, said to be L4th/E5thC, via http://streetart-ekb.livejournal.com/641913.html pic.twitter.com/hT2PDF9XcD
6thC Frankish gold+garnet cloisonné fish brooch from Bülach, Switzerland, w/ garnet scales! http://www.expoarcheo.ch/impressum_e.html …pic.twitter.com/zA14XJFTKD
Two gold and garnet cloisonné dragon terminals from a 5thC Eastern Hunnic collar: http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2014/old-master-sculpture-works-art-l14233/lot.12.html# …pic.twitter.com/jxCy1uWgJB
A pair of lovely 6thC Visigothic eagle brooches, found SW Spain, via http://jpdubs.hautetfort.com/media/00/01/2837616.jpg …pic.twitter.com/NXwHVuUWTy
The gold+garnet 'bees' (prob actually cicadas) from the L5thC Frankish burial of Childeric: http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/btv1b7700172d/ …pic.twitter.com/7j5qde3VF5
Entomologist here - anatomically these are flies, or at a stretch, bees. Seen other ornamental cicadas. PS I'm from Saxilby.
Interesting...usually accepted as cicadas(drawing of others attached)+development of E.European forms...pic.twitter.com/mE3S0B8bnV
>def have similar wing+head forms to cicada brooch types attested in Caucasus region in 5/6thC...otoh, am def not entomologist!!
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