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Copper alloy Boar
AN00757266_001_l. Copper alloy figure of a boar, cast with punched eye markings, ridge along its back; possibly from a helmet. All these images are © Trustees of the British Museum. These free low-resolution images are covered also under the British…
Tags: Archaeology, Art history, British Museum, Weapons
Wilton Cross
AN00131074_001_l. Gold, garnet-inlaid pendant cross with expanded equal arms springing from a central roundel set with a lightweight solidus of Heraclius (613-32). The coin is set in a filigree collar and depicts Heraclius and Heraclius Constantine…
Tags: Archaeology, Art history, British Museum, Coins, Cross, Jewellery, Numismatics, Roman
Cross-shaft
AN00247059_001_l. Fragment of tapered limestone cross-shaft of rectangular section, carved in low relief on all sides. There is damage on all surfaces. Two apparently secondary features are, on the face (c), an upward-angled, drilled hole above the…
Tags: Archaeology, Art history, British Museum, Cross, Religion, Stonework
Censer Cover
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…
Tags: Archaeology, Art, Art history, British Museum, Religion
Silver Circular Brooch
AN00755664_001_l. Silver circular brooch of hammered sheet, slightly convex, and irregular in circumference, decorated with engraved zoomorphic and degenerate foliate ornament. The design is built upon four intersecting, double-contoured circles.…
Tags: Archaeology, Art history, British Museum, Brooch, Inscription, Jewellery, Religion, Silverwork
Spouted Vessel
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…
Disc Brooch
AN00752777_001_l. Dished gilt copper-alloy disc brooch, Urnes style. Within a scalloped border, the convex surface of the circular brooch bears an openwork design of a coiled, ribbon animal in combat with a snake. The head has a pronounced lentoid…
Tags: Archaeology, Art history, British Museum, Brooch, Jewellery
Ivory Box
AN00740728_001_l. Tapering sub-rectangular walrus ivory box with sliding lid. It is highly polished and has high relief carving on the lid and four sides, with glass inlays in the eyes of all creatures. The base consists of two pieces connected in…
Tags: Archaeology, Art history, British Museum, Ivory
Silver Buckle
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…
Necklace
AN00015552_001_l. Necklace strung with an alternating sequence of irregular gold and cabochon garnet pendants, gold 'bullae' and biconical gold wire spacer beads. At the centre, flanked by small biconical beads, hangs an equal-armed cross; at either…
Tags: Archaeology, Art history, British Museum, Jewellery