The exceptionally large 7thC Kingston Down gold and garnet cloisonné brooch from Anglo-Saxon Kent, discovered 1771: http://www.liverpoolmuseums.org.uk/wml/collections/blitz/evacuees/item-381789.aspx …pic.twitter.com/HK5xiUM5nJ
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has anyone worked on the over/under for late antique/early med global trade vs recutting/reuse late Roman gems already in W Europe?
(I mean, I know there's good work on the one and on the other, but if there's work attempting to distinguish between the 2)
Noël Adams' PhD on garnet cloisonné worth a look, mainly Late Antique style iirc & generally assumed new imports; good evidence for Red >
> Sea trade in Late Antiquity incl Indo-Pacific beads in 5th–6thC West European graves+at Byzantine port of Berenike on Red Sea, so fits? :)
oh yeah I know there's plenty of ev, just wondering! thanks!
Fwiw, quick flick though Adams suggests does think primarily new imports of Late Antiquity & notes relative rarity of Roman garnet etc :)
nice! thanks!
that's great. now I'm reading about garnets and geology.
There's a little bit about the brooch here, fwiw :) https://www.friesmuseum.nl/en/collection/icons/the-fibula-from-wijnaldum/ … And a whole project on garnet too: http://zellwerk.hypotheses.org/tag/garnet
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