A 6th-century glass drinking horn from Rommersheim grave 6, Germany: http://www.kornbluthphoto.com/images/GlassHorn2.jpg
A lovely early medieval glass drinking horn, late 6th-/early 7th-century and Lombardic, made N. Italy: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/468980?rpp=20&pg=37&ft=glass&pos=731&imgno=0&tabname=label
The fabulous late 6th-century Lombardic blue glass drinking horn that was found at Sutri, Italy: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Glass_drinking_horn_BM_MME1887.01-08.2.jpg
Anglo-Saxon blue glass bowl, c. 600 AD, from Cuddesdon, Oxfordshire; in the Ashmolean Museum.
An Anglo-Saxon glass palm cup of the 6th/7th century, found in the 18th century at St Martin in the Fields, London: https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=88791&partId=1&page=5&matcult=8832
An Anglo-Saxon cone beaker found in the high-status 6th-7thC cemetery at Faversham, Kent ( https://www.cmog.org/artwork/cone-beaker-2), and a glass claw beaker found in grave 204 (c.520–540 AD) at Finglesham, Kent, now in the Ashmolean Museum.
An Anglo-Saxon glass mount and the base of a blue glass inkwell found at the intriguing 7th- to 9th-century 'island' site of Little Carlton, Lincolnshire.
An early Anglo-Saxon cone beaker, 5th–6th century, found at Acklam, Yorkshire, England, in 1892: https://www.cmog.org/artwork/cone-beaker-0
A 6th-century glass claw beaker from Selzen (Germany), grave 3: http://www.kornbluthphoto.com/images/SelzenBeaker.jpg
A 5th- to 6th-century Frankish claw beaker, found in Bellenberg-Vöhringen (Bavaria): https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/468762
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