Baltic Amber Bracelet Jewellery

7"/180mm overall length

Weight
60g

One Specimen at Different View Points

Description

Baltic Amber bracelet, the amber finely polished, set in silver [Stamped 925].Exquisite piece of Fossil Jewellery, only the finest pieces of Amber used in this Amber Bracelet, showing a fascinating range of colours; greens, creams, and yellow hues.

Location

Lithuania, Amber from the Baltic Coast

Geological Age

Tertiary age; Palaeogene Period, ranging from around 40 to 50 millions years old [Upper Eocene-Lower Oligocene]

Baltic Amber

The most famous Amber layer in Western Europe comes from countries surrounding the Baltic Sea (Poland, Russia, Denmark, and Lithuania), the Baltic states. It comes from a deposit known as the Blue Earth, which outcrops below the coastal water table and extends out in to the Baltic Sea. Storms rip out Amber from this bed and wash it up onto the shores post storms. Lumps of this Amber are also occasionally washed up in Britain on the East Anglian, Kent and Yorkshire coasts after a storm. The largest Baltic Amber deposits are on and around the Samland Peninsula, in an area that forms a small part of Russia between Poland and Lithuania. Before World WAR II this area was known as East Prussia and formed part of Germany. The main city there is Kaliningrad, which was previously called Koenigsberg.