Part of the Metropolis Collection

It’s 9500 BC.
You don’t know how to farm, your tribesmen are hunter gatherers. You don’t know how to make pottery vessels. Yet in Gobekli Tepi a huge complex has been built from megalithic stones, into what may be a ceremonial complex, or may be a trading place, or may be a ‘we just don’t know yet’.
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Concentric circles with a causeway, huge T shaped stones carved with animals, symbols and holes.
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Currently the earliest masonry work of prehistoric man, and the inspiration for the Metropolis focal piece

Hand forged bronze concentric rings, riveted in silver to a sterling silver frame.

Forged oxidided silver caging of ceramic cup marked slab.

Hollow form box in sterling silver with citrine.

All pieces connected by silver rivets, and suspended from a leather cord and strap, fastened with a sterling and copper fastening.

Spalted beech stand included - this is a decorative piece as well as a one of a kind ceremonial necklace