Peter Ross
@peteralanross
Author of Steeple Chasing, a Sunday Times Bestseller & A Tomb With A View, a Radio 4 Book of the Week
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Unbelievably I am a finalist at the @TravelMedia_Awards 2024 and now means I need a frock to attend a swanky do at The Four Seasons Hotel London on 28 October. #TravelMediaAwards #Finalist Congratulations to everyone nominated and to Jez Lazell for the opportunity.
Peter Ross Katherine O'Donnell Early medieval garnets originate from two main sources, Eastern Europe and South East Asia. We can understand this via PIXE analysis, forcing elements with the sample to give off characteristic X-rays.
Peter Ross Katherine O'Donnell The garnet that this little piece came from probably arrived sometime in the 6/7th C Ad, when gold and garnet jewellery was very fashionable in the Anglo Saxon kingdoms, like that in the Staffordshire Hoard.
Peter Ross Katherine O'Donnell Hopefully such analysis and radiocarbon dating can give us some insight into how this little sliver of garnet ended up as the centre piece of this lozenge shaped ring, possibly representing the wound of Christ, in the 8th C Ad.
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