Slavs: distinctive jewelry, cross earrings
European Museums, The British MuseumSlavs distinctive jewelry, earring with star-like cross design
Slavs: distinctive jewelry
These pieces come from a hoard of western Slav silver jewellery, including two lunate (crescent-shaped) pendants, a bucket-shaped amulet, two pairs of er-rings and two non-matching ear-rings and two non-matching ear-rings. Each piece is decorated with granulation - tiny silver 'granules' applied to the surface in geometric shapes, typical of Slav jewelry. Coins found with the hoard include a penny of the Viking king Cnut, struck in Stamford, England around 1018 - 1024.
AD 900s-early 1000s, Possibly from Poland or eastern Germany, 1991, 1003.1-8 and 12
Supplementary images:
Slavs distinctive jewelry, earring with star-like cross design
Taken on Monday 17th of August 2015
Device: OLYMPUS IMAGING CORP.
Model: SP800UZ
Tags:
cross with circle in the center
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cross without frame
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earring
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four-point
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four-pointed cross
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jewelry
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metal
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pendant
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silver
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slavs
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zigzag
Genre:
900 - 1000 A.D.
Source: London, United Kingdom
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