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Silver-gilt posy ring with Lombardic characters
Found in the Lache area of Chester
A late 13th or early 14th century
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Gold torque (neck ring)
Celtic, made in Southern Russia or Black Sea Region (?), 6th–4th century B.C.
Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Silver Ribbon Torque (neck ring)
Celtic, made in Ireland, 500 B.C.– A.D. 400
Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Etruscan gold ring, 4th–3rd century B.C.
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Gold “Basket” Earring
Byzantine, 6th century, made in Northern France (2.5 x 1.5 cm)
Opus interrasile was a technique used by goldsmiths to make elegant jewelry from the 200s through the 600s. Designs were traced onto sheets of gold; the background was punched with holes of various sizes to highlight the pattern; and fine details were then worked on the surface. The patterns formed by piercing the metal ground encouraged the play of light and shadow across an object’s surface.
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Various bronze and glass jewellery found in Poland, attributed to the Lusatian culture. Images via Poznań Museum.
Places of discovery: Środa, Poznań-Starołęka, Nadziejewo, Rudka.
The Lusatian culture is a Bronze-Age archaeological culture from c. 14th - 5th centuries BC, spreading across most of today’s Poland, and some neighbouring areas of Germany, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Ukraine and Belarus [see a map here].
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Gold and glass bead necklace
1st Century AD
Parthian
Most of this necklace is from 1st Century Iran. However, sometime during the medieval period it was restrung and new beads added to the existing Parthian ones.
(Source: The British Museum)
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A Rare Pair of Sumerian Gold Double Lobed Crescent Earrings. 2500 BC, Mesopotamia
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Necklace
Found in the Tomb of the three Princesses
18th Dynasty
1465 BC
New Kingdom
(Source: The British Museum)
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Gold finger-ring, decorated in high relief with a youth with a jug and phiale.
500-475 BC
Etruscan(?)/Italtic(?)
(Source: The British Museum)
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Halaf Necklace
6000-5000 BC
Found Arpachiyah, Iraq
A necklace consisting of six obsidian beads and one of dark clay apparently mimicking that of obsidian with 16 cowrie shells from the Red Sea or the Persian Gulf and one label shaped limestone pendant. There was said to have been red pigment evident at excavation however no evidence of this survives.
Source British Museum
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Collar
1352-1336 BC
Amarna Period
Glazed composition open-work broad collar: the top row represents yellow and blue mandrake fruits; the middle row is composed of green date palm leaves and the lowest of yellow, white and mauve lotus petals. Between the pendants are strung tiny disc beads in red, blue, mauve or yellow. Even the two triangular terminals into which the stringing threads pass to emerge as a single united cord at each side of the collar take the shape of a lotus inlaid in red, yellow, blue and green to indicate the individual petals. All the elements were made in open moulds, as their backs are flat and not detailed.
(Source: The British Museum)