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AN00486945_001_l. Gilt copper alloy square-headed brooch with remainds of iron pin. All these images are © Trustees of the British Museum. These free low-resolution images are covered also under the British Museum's Terms and Conditions…

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…

AN00472756_001_l. Glass spindle-whorl. All these images are © Trustees of the British Museum. These free low-resolution images are covered also under the British Museum's Terms and Conditions…

CANCM:7520 - Spindle whorl of black pottery. (Accessions register states:
"n.b. a small ring-shaped piece of badly corroded
bronze lay at a distance
of 9" away from…

M/1992/13.
Small Anglo-Saxon bucket made up of wooden staves and a wooden base held together by bronze rivets, three bronze rings around the outside and a bronze rim. A bronze strip down each side has a hole at the top where the ends of the bronze…

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…

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…

AN00756888_001_l. Silver buckle with oval loop and shield on tongue; inlaid with gold foil. All these images are © Trustees of the British Museum. These free low-resolution images are covered also under the British Museum's Terms and Conditions…

Link to website www.saxonhouse.co.uk.

A recreation of a 7th century building using authentic tools and materials. Costumes and artefacts.

Further information at www.saxonhouse.co.uk.

In 2010, the Friends of Corhampton Saxon Church and Meonstoke Infant School organised a Saxon learning day for the eighty pupils at the school.
This was followed by the 1st Saxon Festival in the Meon Valley Since the 11th Century.
We were…