All Saints Church, Wing, Buckinghamshire
Archaeology
Wing is a small village in Buckinghamshire on the Icknield Way. It's church - All Souls - though greatly added to over the centuries, retains several distinct Anglo-Saxon features notably a window at the East End of the nave, a doorway (now bricked up), arches (the highest remaining in Britain?), and a crypt. Saxon infrastructure along the nave is also surviving but now hidden by more recent plasterwork. See - http://www.crsbi.ac.uk/search/county/site/ed-bk-wings.html
Stuart Lee
8th-9th century
Google Earth Distribution map of Woruldhord Items
This .kml file can be opened in Google Earth to show the distribution of objects submitted to Woruldhord so far. Please note that this is very much beta, and only obvious errors have been corrected!
Stuart Lee
English
The text from the Anglo-Saxon Galleries at Corinium Museum
Archaeology
Text accompanying the exhibition pieces in the Anglo-Saxon Galleries at Corinium Museum.
Contents:
WHO WERE THE SAXONS?
SAXONS IN THE COTSWOLDS
BUTLER’S FIELD : ANGLO-SAXON CEMETERY
BUTLER’S FIELD : EXAMINING THE EVIDENCE
“MRS. GETTY”, THE RICHEST BURIAL
CHILD BURIALS
MALE BURIALS
TRADE AND CONNECTIONS
JEWELLERY: FASHION AND FUNCTION
WHERE DID THEY LIVE?
UNCOVERING RELIGION
WARRIORS AND WEAPONS
WOMEN AND WEAVING
THE ART OF THE GOLDSMITH
Corinium Museum
Corinium Museum
English
Past Perfect Web Site - Yeavering
archaeology
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 project managed by the Archaeology Section of Durham County Council and the Conservation Team of Northumberland County Council.
The project has been funded by the New Opportunities Fund through the NOF Digitise Programme. It forms part of the EnrichUK, the gateway to a lottery-funded collection of 150 sites supported by the New Opportunities Fund.
Oxford ArchDigital provided technical expertise for website development, Virtual Reality reconstructions and digitisation, under contract to Durham County Council.
To use download and uncompress 'PastPerfect.zip'. Download the other files 'archive' 'clips' 'images' 'index.html' 'ms' and 'siteplan' and place these uncompressed in the subfolder: /sites/yeavering.
Archaeology Section of Durham County Council and the Conservation Team of Northumberland County Council
rchaeology Section of Durham County Council and the Conservation Team of Northumberland County Council
English
East-Anglian Sceat (Runic)
Numismatics
Anglo-Saxon sceat, c. 710-760AD. East-Anglian R1.
Runes read EPA, probably the name of the moneyer.
Petos (Photographer)
Contributor's own image
c.710-760
Canterbury Pendant
Archaeology
CANCM:1982.14.23 - Circular gold pendant inlaid with cloisonné garnets
decorated with filigree wires, surmounted with
barrel shaped suspension
loop.
Found Cranmer House, Canterbury, Kent, by Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 1982.
Pendants of various kinds emerged in the 7th century as a native adaption of Byzantine fashion. They quickly took over from brooches as the main form of female jewellery. This version is one of the very best types and has an expressly Christian motif of the cross. It can be dated to the first third of the 7th century, probably around the 620s, as it is similar to brooches made at that time.
It is made from gold sheet worked into cells set with polished garnets backed with a gold foil. Decorated with filigree wires. The shape of a cross in the centre, now missing its white inlay, was probably intended as a Christian symbol. The pendant is topped by a barrel shaped suspension loop.
Such finely crafted jewellery would have been made for a wealthy or noble lady. It was probably buried decades after being made as there is evidence of wear and alteration to the pendant. This shows that it was a cherished piece, much used before being buried with its owner perhaps about AD 650.
When dug up the central boss was detached from the backplate. It was found about half a kilometre West of Canterbury City Walls at Cranmer House, formerly Westgate Court farm in 1982. It was found in what may have been a grave that was robbed in antiquity, but there were no traces of a body. This possibly shows a Saxon re-use of an old Roman cemetery on the site. A coin found near the graves dates the site to c700AD.
All images © Canterbury City Museums.
Canterbury City Museums
Canterbury City Museums
600-700
Bird brooch
Art history
CANCM:7523 - Bird brooch, silver gilt, garnet inset in eye and tail;
niello inlay. (Accessions register states: "Objects
from this grave
disturbed before excavation and recorded from spoil
heap by Mr. Jarvis and
his wife").
Found Bekesbourne,
Kent by Mr. F. Jenkins, in grave 30 of the Anglo-Saxon cemetery.
Acquired from Mr. P.G. Wilson, (Boundary Cottage, Bekesbourne).
All images © Canterbury City Museums.
Canterbury City Museums
Canterbury City Museums
Spindle whorl
Archaeology
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 the whorl, and is quite possibly the
end of the spindle,
thus it would have been originally 9"(?) long and
suspended from the bell"
& "found by the right hip").
Found Bekesbourne,
Kent
N.G. 200555
by Mr. F. Jenkins, in grave 22, Anglo-Saxon cemetery.
Production period: Anglo-Saxon.
Acquisition source: Wilson, P.G., Mr. (Boundary Cottage, Bekesbourne).
All images © Canterbury City Museums.
Canterbury City Museums
Canterbury City Museums
?
Square-headed brooch
Archaeology
CANCM:7494 - Square-headed silver-gilt brooch; undivided foot, motif decorating footplate; rampant animals either side of the foot reaching up to
the bow; (Accessions register states: "Almost exact
parallel from Howletts - see P.S.A. 2nd series XXX p.104, pl.1, 2. Nils Aberg - p.80, fig.132. Shaw ... Eastrial, p.3, fig.7 & "These items seem to be on loan. See "Archaeology Register" 58/10, where they are also
listed, and Loan Book, 1958/1. ... Items 7494-7511"). Found Eastry, Kent. Acquisition source Mr. Irby(Mersham) per Dr. W.G. Urry.
All images © Canterbury City Museums.
Canterbury City Museums
Canterbury City Museums
Canterbury Cross
Archaeology
CANCM:6421 - Canterbury Cross; copper alloy and silver cruciform brooch. Found St. George's Street, Canterbury, during laying of drainage in 1867. Dated to c.850. Acquired from Dr. H. Wacher.
All images © Canterbury City Museums.
Canterbury City Museums
Canterbury City Museums
850