8th-11th century AD. A matched pair of gold earrings, each a penannular hoop with coiled wire panels flanking a hollow-formed bulb with radiating lobes, applied filigree and granules. See discussion in Albani, J., Elegance Over the Borders: The Evidence of Middle Byzantine Earrings in Entwistle, C. & Adams, N., Intelligible Beauty, Recent Research into Byzantine Jewellery, London, 2010. 13.88 grams total, 31mm each (1 1/4"). From the collection of a European gentleman living in South London; acquired 1970-1980. [2]