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2. Bulla (amulet) - Wikipedia

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   The body of the bulla has roughly vertical sides before making a semi-circle or inverted pointed arch at the bottom. The gold is incised with geometrical decoration. Whether they were purely for adornment or had an amuletic or other function is unclear. Despite the small weight of gold used they would have been available only for elite groups.

3. Chequers Ring - Wikipedia

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   Chequers Ring, three-quarter profile The Chequers Ring is one of the few surviving pieces of jewellery worn by Queen Elizabeth I of England. The mother-of-pearl ring, set with gold and rubies, includes a locket with two portraits, one depicting Elizabeth and the other traditionally identified as Elizabeth's mother Anne Boleyn, but possibly her step-mother Catherine Parr.

4. Locket - Wikipedia

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   Some lockets have been fashioned as 'spinner' lockets, where the bail that attaches to the necklace chain is attached but not fixed to the locket itself which is free to spin. This was a common style in the Victorian Age. Around 1860 memento lockets started to replace mourning rings as the preferred style of mourning jewellery. [1]

5. Medieval jewelry - Wikipedia

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   Germanic fibulae, early 5th century The Dunstable Swan Jewel, a livery badge in gold and ronde bosse enamel, about 1400. Gold belt end and buckle, c. 600, Avar version of Byzantine style. The Middle Ages was a period that spanned approximately 1000 years and is normally restricted to Europe and the Byzantine Empire.

6. Hoxne Hoard - Wikipedia

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   The Hoxne body chain, worn tightly, would fit a woman with a bust-size of 76–81 cm (30–32 in). [50] Few body chains have survived; one of the most complete is from the early Byzantine era, found in Egypt, and it also is in the British Museum. [51] Two pierced-work gold bracelets "Juliane" inscribed bracelet [52]

7. Gold-filled jewelry - Wikipedia

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   Gold-filled is a type of composite material. Composites are formed from two or more constituent materials with different properties that, when combined, create a new material with enhanced properties. [1] Gold-filled material is made by bonding a layer of gold alloy to a base metal core (typically brass, but sometimes copper or silver).