Lapis Lazuli Pendant

“Blue stone carried two thousand miles from a single mountain in Afghanistan.”

• Rarity: Epic
• Metal: Gold
• Kind: Jewellery and dress fittings
• Set: The Ziggurat Foundations

Where to find the Lapis Lazuli Pendant

The Lapis Lazuli Pendant is one of the epic artefacts buried in FieldHunters, a free online metal detecting game. Hunters sweep a shared field with a metal detector, follow the signal and dig — and epic pieces like this one are among the rarest things that come out of the ground. There is no way to buy it: it has to be dug up.

The The Ziggurat Foundations set

What the builders sealed into the brickwork, hoping a god would notice.

The pieces of this set:

• Bitumen Lump · Common
• Cylinder Seal · Uncommon
• Inlay from a Royal Standard · Legendary
• Inscribed Clay Cone · Common
• Lamassu Fragment · Rare
• Lapis Lazuli Pendant · Epic
• Ration Tablet · Uncommon
• Reed Stylus Tip · Common

About jewellery and dress fittings

Brooches, fibulae, pendants, torcs and amulets were both fashion and function: they fastened clothes, showed status and, often, were believed to protect the wearer. The torc, a rigid twisted neck ring, was a mark of high rank among Iron Age peoples. Fibulae — ancient safety-pin brooches — changed style so often that archaeologists use them to date the sites they are found on.

More epic artefacts

• Latitude Ring
• Lunula Fragment
• May Queen Pin
• Merchant Mark Ring
• Mermaid Brooch
• Nativity Pendant

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