As promised, ages ago, this post is to show some of the beautiful jewellery that is in the British Museum.
I do have to admit that I may not be able to remember what period it came from so I suggest the best thing is if you pop along to the museum yourself or if unable due to distance, then check out the website
here.This is the collection database
here.
So all I am going to show is the photos I took. Bear in mind that this is just a tiny tiny proportion of what there is in the museum.
My photographs are pretty bad but I did try to capture some of the amazing detail. Alot of these photos are of Celtic and Anglo-Saxon jewellery and it amazes me that goldsmiths some 1500 years ago could create such beautiful pieces. Truly inspiring. Oh yes I think there is some photos of Roman and possible Egyptian pieces too (bad Alix! Take notes next time).
