A gorgeous Merovingian rock crystal buckle w/ silver tongue, early-mid6thC from Marne, France: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=90020&partId=1 …pic.twitter.com/jcBqnUzDTd
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A 6th-century Byzantine rock crystal button with a garnet mounted in a gold granulated star: http://www.clevelandart.org/art/1946.259 pic.twitter.com/myegVnhUa1
Another rock crystal belt buckle, found in a 6th-century Merovingian grave at Saint-Dizier (Haute-Marne), north-eastern France: https://www.inrap.fr/magazine/st-dizier/Des-pieces-remarquables/La-boucle-de-ceinture-en-cristal-de-roche?&s=article238 …pic.twitter.com/sgvZFyHscw
You always share such beautiful things, thank you. 
My pleasure :)
All these amulets once belonged to Frank woman. The seashell is frequently found in such graves. The claw is more mysteriouspic.twitter.com/XLRMJCa8Uf
Indeed, and Anglo-Saxon too :) Red Sea cowrie's also found on Gotland etc too :)
Crystal dagger, 3rd millennium BC, Valencina de la Concepcion, Spain https://www.researchgate.net/publication/283897457_The_allure_of_rock_crystal_in_Copper_Age_southern_Iberia_Technical_skill_and_distinguished_objects_from_Valencina_de_la_Concepcion_Seville_Spain …pic.twitter.com/VuzTUHK0Ey
Maybe one of Tolkien's Palantir?
How wonderful they are! thank you so much ! G
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