A pair of gorgeous 6thC Visigothic eagle brooches, glass and garnet cloisonné; found SW Spain: http://art.thewalters.org/detail/77441/pair-of-eagle-fibula/ …pic.twitter.com/0RZsqMYoZD
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Two gold & garnet cloisonné lions+a buckle from the recent Russian Fatezhsky treasure, said to be Hun-era, L4/E5thC: http://streetart-ekb.livejournal.com/641913.html pic.twitter.com/g6AbIoCIYr
Some very early garnet cloisonné from Hatra, Iraq (E3rdC), & Ureki, Georgia (L3rd-E4thC): https://www.academia.edu/2614655/Rethinking_the_Sutton_Hoo_Shoulder_Clasps_and_Armour … & https://www.academia.edu/2614651/Garnet_Inlays_in_the_Light_of_the_Armaziskhevi_Dagger_Hilt …pic.twitter.com/rPPZjl2xis
Two gold and garnet cloisonné dragon terminals from a 5thC Eastern Hunnic 'royal collar', ?Kyrgyzstan: http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/ecatalogue/2014/old-master-sculpture-works-art-l14233/lot.12.html …pic.twitter.com/Jph1cFxNIy
Finally the gold, glass & garnet cloisonné dagger from an E6thC Silla tomb, Korea; prob made in Black Sea area: https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=mpanKmU_ckYC&pg=PA132&lpg=PA132#v=onepage&q&f=false …pic.twitter.com/2bvquy4jTB
The gold & garnet cloisonné sword-harness pyramids from the early 7th-century Sutton Hoo ship burial, with blue chequered millefiori on the top: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=87368&partId=1 …pic.twitter.com/Ybn6NELV89
The tiny garnet face hidden on the leg of the bird mount from the early 7th-century Sutton Hoo shield :) http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details/collection_image_gallery.aspx?partid=1&assetid=722950001&objectid=86436 …pic.twitter.com/Ys2yqazVLx
Two 6th-century Frankish bird brooches, made from garnet, gold, glass and pearl: https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/17.191.164-5/ …pic.twitter.com/R16x6Le9kn
A 7th-century Anglo-Saxon gold & garnet pendant from Southampton Football Club; the rest of the cemetery lies unexcavated under the pitch! https://www.flickr.com/photos/wessexarchaeology/51572937/in/gallery-49590941@N04-72157624032036566/ …pic.twitter.com/p9j1uimoxI
A gold and garnet bird of prey from the 7th-century Anglo-Saxon Staffordshire Hoard.pic.twitter.com/Wb8g0aTFje
The one on the top right looks similar to those Frankish bee/cicada broach
There's a school of thought that sees the Childeric cicadas as eastern European in origin, possibly Hunnic :)
And to think my Mum, after taking me as a lad to see Dr Dolittle, told me pushmi-pullyus were not real......
Possibly hunted to extinction in the medieval period... ;)
i love goats!
...and a Pushmipullyu.
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