Ostrogoth Dragon Earwrap Earring

The Ostrogoths were sacking Rome while most jewellery trends were still being workshopped. They had priorities, and dragons were among them.

This single polished pewter ear wrap pulls its design from the mists of 5th century Balkan metalwork, the kind of thing a warlord's second-in-command wore into a very bad situation and survived. A viciously saw-backed, spine-faced reptile coils around the ear with its pointed tail cresting the top and its head resting low, anchored by a surgical steel post. It sits somewhere between dark aesthetic and living history, the sort of piece that gets noticed by exactly the right people and ignored by everyone else. Sold as a single earring.

Polished pewter body, surgical steel post. Single piece.