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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

Slavs distinctive jewelry, earring with star-like cross design
Genre:  900 - 1000 A.D.

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