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This very small maquette sculpture idea was submitted by John McKenna ARBS, for a public art competition.

The competition was held by the Cotswold and Vale Magazine of Evesham around the 2000 millennium, to select by public vote a sculpture using…

This bronze statue by sculptor John McKenna ARBS is situated in Evesham town centre, on the edge of the town market square. It commemorates the legend of Eof's vision. The legend is that while searching for his pigs on the banks of the River Avon,…

This is my own pencil drawing rendition of a huscarl in mid-battle at Stamford Bridge, 25th Sept, 1066.

I have afterwards tinted the picture slightly (using a computer editing program), for effect, but the rest is my own effort.

It's not…

'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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Author's own…

Photographed on a cold, sunny March 7th, 2011

The legend of the founding of Evesham is that while searching for his pigs on the banks of the River Avon, Eof, a swineherd, received a vision of the Virgin Mary. Eof related this vision to Ecgwine (Saint Egwin), Bishop of Worcester. Ecgwine founded…

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.…

Items from the Corinium Museum's collection of grave-goods from the Butler's Field excavations in Lechlade.

Text From Gallery
BUTLER’S FIELD : ANGLO-SAXON CEMETERY
One of the largest and most important Anglo-Saxon cemeteries in the Upper…

AN00034893_001_l. Cast, copper alloy openwork censer-cover. It is of architectural form, resembling a church tower with a plinth at the base decorated on all four sides with punched ornament. At each corner is a perforated lug, through which a narrow…

Two illustrations for a story I began to write but didn't finish about an imaginary meeting of two cultures, Roman and Anglo Saxon.

The woman looking out over a Saxon village is from a Roman family
her child and husband are buried in the forest…