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AN00469340_001_l. Franks Casket. Lidded rectangular box made of whale-bone, carved on the sides and top in relief with scenes from Roman, Jewish, Christian and Germanic tradition. The base is constructed from four sides slotted and pegged into corner…

AN00035987_001_l. The Fuller Brooch. Circular brooch of hammered sheet-metal, slightly convex in section. It is extensively inlaid with niello and has an openwork outer zone encircling a central roundel which is framed and divided by broad milled…

AN00006088_002_l. Strickland Brooch. Slightly convex bossed disc brooch of sheet silver with inlaid gold and niello ornament. The zoomorphic decoration is deeply carved and pierced to give an openwork effect. Within the beaded rim, a zone of…

AN00448801_001_l. Silver engraved rectangular side-panel from house-shaped casket shrine. The engraved ornament consists of three roundels with plain borders, each with an equal-armed cross with a central piercing. The crosses have a billeted…

AN00738869_001_l. Silver-gilt linked triple pin set. Each disc-headed pin is of composite construction, the shaft being cast separately and riveted to the disc via a highly schematised animal-head terminal on the hipped pin-shaft. The head of each…

AN00392427_001_l. Glass globular beaker; blue with self-coloured trailed decoration. 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…

In the church of Kirkby Stephen (Cumbria) is a stone carved in relief with an image of the Norse god Loki, a horned figure bound in chains. I have read that Anglo-Saxon Christians may have made this carving to demonstrate their dominion over Norse…

AN00753200_001_l. Gilt silver mount apparently originally V-shaped, consisting of two U-shaped metal strips which converge in a three-dimensional animal head. Both strips are broken off, the lower one close to its junction with the animal head. The…

AN00750879_001_l. Silver expanding wire bracelet with coiled ends. 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…

AN00740623_001_l. Sword pommel: silver-gilt. 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…