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Photographed on a cold, sunny March 7th, 2011

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…

This clay sculpture was created of The vision of Eof by sculptor John McKenna ARBS, before moulding at the A4A studio foundry, in Ayrshire. From the mould a full size wax version was made for investing, ready to cast in bronze. The bronze statue was…

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…

I got a bit concerned as the claywork of the sculpture was finished and I thought my dog might take a bite out of the clay snout - he did things like that when he was younger! [A4A Art for Architecture, High McGowanston Studio, Ayrshire, Scotland]…

'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…

Holy Trinity Church is the oldest surviving building in Colchester. The church is located on Trinity Street opposite the town library. Parts of the church tower are believed to date to around 1050 (the Anglo-Saxon period), pre-dating Colchester…

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…

In the early stages of his subcreation, J.R.R. Tolkien wrote a number of new texts in Old English, in which he described the creation of the world in the Elder Days. This is my own calligraphic interpretation of one of these texts, which I made in…

John McKenna ARBS checks over the moulding (from the clay version) of the sculpture, The Vision of Eof, made at the A4A Art for Architecture studio foundry in Ayrshire.

From the mould a full size wax version was made for investing, ready to cast in…