Browse Items (109 total)

Strap-end
AN00741002_001_l. Strap-end; copper alloy; openwork foliage on main plate and terminal animal mask in relief; two attachment rivets at split end. All these images are © Trustees of the British Museum. These free low-resolution images are covered…

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AN00468266_001_l. Copper alloy florid cruciform brooch; square head with three knobs (top one with human mask) and punched decoration; bird head lappets; animal head terminal; remains of iron pin. All these images are © Trustees of the British…

Drinking horn
AN00029558_001_l. Glass drinking-horn, brownish-green. Plain cut rim, pointed tip, crimped collar below rim, looped trails around body. Restored.All these images are © Trustees of the British Museum. These free low-resolution images are covered also…

Part 1 (MP4)
TV film, first broadcast in 1966 on the BBC to commemorate the anniversary of the Battle of Hastings. A dramatised look at England in 1065 as Hastings approaches, with voiceover by Leo McKern. Directed by Leo Aylen.

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A cast copper-alloy, gilded, great square-headed brooch found while metal detecting. This item is recorded on the PAS database (BERK-EoFC63 BROOCH).

Embroidery in Anglo-Saxon England
'Embroidery in Anglo-Saxon England', an A5 book self-published by Elizabeth Norton in the 1990s. A catalogue record is available from the British Library, but the book is now out of print.
ISBN - 0 9521581 1 6.
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AN00697144_001_l. Gilt silver spoon with baluster stem joined to hemispherical bowl by punched sub-triangular plate with zigzag; 5 holes in bowl. Plus brooches. All these images are © Trustees of the British Museum. These free low-resolution images…

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AN00034864_001_l. Gilt-copper alloy spouted vessel, cast and with everted rim, rounded belly and waisted foot, decorated with incised and relief ornament. The handle is formed of a twisted snake emerging from the head of an animal at the rim, where…

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AN00725475_001_l. Silver buckle with a cast oval loop and shield-on-tongue covered by a sheet gold plate, edged with beaded wire, and divided into two crescentic panels flanking a central rectangle, all filled with collared granules. Above them is a…

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AN00274047_001_l. Silver scourge: one strand of trichinopoly chainwork is doubled and the two strands so formed are held together by plaited loops of wire at five unequally spaced places. The chain terminates in a large loop, or knot, from which…
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