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An edition of 'The Battle of Brunanburh'
The anonymous poem on the Battle of Brunanburh appears under the year 937 in four manuscripts (A, B, C and D) of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. It celebrates the victory of King Athelstan over the allied forces of the Irish Vikings and the King of Scots…
Tags: Brunanburh, Edition, Old English literature, Poetry
St Gregory's Minster, Kirkdale
A PowerPoint presentation with recent (2006) photographs. St Gregory's Minster, in beautiful setting in Kirkdale, North Yorkshire, has a sundial that records its renovation -- just a few years before the Norman Conquest. The sundial also…
The Hackness Cross
PowerPoint presentation with recent (2006) photographs. St Peter's Church in Hackness, North Yorkshire, contains a remarkable Anglo-Saxon memorial cross (8th century), which commemorates 'Abbess Oedilburga' (possibly Ethelburga). Reflecting the…
Tags: Archaeology, Art history, Church, Cross, PowerPoint, Religion, Runes, Stonework
Past Perfect Web Site - Yeavering
Virtual archaeology web site from Durham and Northumberland entitled 'Past Perfect'. This is available online at: http://www.pastperfect.org.uk/index.html. These files are the home pages and the files related to Yeavering. Past Perfect is a joint…
Tags: Archaeology, Yeavering
Children's drawings from the Ashmolean
Children's drawings from the Ashmolean Museum's 'Anglo-Saxon Discovery' exhibition and website.
The Alfred Jewel
Ashmolean Museum inventory no. AN1836p.135.371.
Gold, rock crystal, enamel. Dated to the late 9th century. Gold tear-drop shaped frame holds an enamel base beneath a polished rock crystal, possibly a reused piece from an older object. The separate…
Gold, rock crystal, enamel. Dated to the late 9th century. Gold tear-drop shaped frame holds an enamel base beneath a polished rock crystal, possibly a reused piece from an older object. The separate…
The Minster Lovell Jewel
Ashmolean Museum inventory no. AN1869.20.
Gold, enamel. L. 3.1cm, max D. 2.3cm. c.850-900.
Sheet gold socketed fitting decorated with gold filigree consisting of straight, beaded and twisted wire. Fitting is topped with applied gold and enamel…
Gold, enamel. L. 3.1cm, max D. 2.3cm. c.850-900.
Sheet gold socketed fitting decorated with gold filigree consisting of straight, beaded and twisted wire. Fitting is topped with applied gold and enamel…
Tags: Archaeology, Art history, Ashmolean Museum
The Abingdon Sword
Ashmolean Museum inventory no. AN1890.14. Late 9th/early 10th century. Iron sword fragment and hilt, silver mounts inlaid with niello. High status weapon. Pommel originally featured two animal heads at each end, with protruding ears and round eyes…
Tags: Archaeology, Ashmolean Museum, Sword, Weapons
Windsor sword-pommel
Ashmolean Museum inventory no. AN1909.518. Silver and gold. Mid 8th century. Sword-pommel, base silver core with applied silver sheet and one surviving gold filigree panel. Arched panel consists of a vine of twisted gold wire with clusters of grapes…
Tags: Archaeology, Ashmolean Museum, Sword, Weapons
Ipsden Heath strap-ends
Ashmolean Museum inventory no. AN1997.56&57. 9th century. Gold and silver. Two silver strap-ends with panels of gold filigree, consisting of beaded gold wire and clusters. The strap-ends each terminate in a stylised beast's head with large circular…
Tags: Archaeology, Art history, Ashmolean Museum, Strap-end