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Children's drawings from the Ashmolean Museum's 'Anglo-Saxon Discovery' exhibition and website.

Ashmolean Museum inventory no. HCR4915. Gold. c.640. Gold thrymsas. Originally the hoard consisted of 101 coins. Modelled on Merovingian coinage; possibly the earliest English shillings and certainly the most important evidence for early Anglo-Saxon…

Ashmolean Museum inventory no. AN1980.269. Glass. 11.5 cm diameter. Blue glass bowl with trailed decoration, vertical loops towards the base and spirals around the neck. Probably a drinking vessel, and of Kentish origin. Found in a grave in 1847…

Ashmolean Museum inventory no. AN1909.519-551. Silver. Largest Viking-Age silver hoard discovered to date in North-West Europe, consisting of over 8,500 individual silver items, buried in a lead lined chest. They include silver ingots, rings,…

Ashmolean Museum inventory no. AN1934.202. 7th century. Gold, garnet and glass. Composite disc brooch, elaborately decorated with cloisonné work and inlaid with garnets and coloured glass. Beaded wire rim and gold filigree scrollwork. Discovered in…

Ashmolean Museum inventory no. AN1999.206. Gold and garnet. Early 7th century pectoral cross pendant, decorated with cloisonné work inlaid with garnets. Single sheet gold back-plate. Only 58 of the original 95 gems survive. Discovered in the 1960s…

Ashmolean Museum inventory no. AN1997.56&57. 9th century. Gold and silver. Two silver strap-ends with panels of gold filigree, consisting of beaded gold wire and clusters. The strap-ends each terminate in a stylised beast's head with large circular…

Ashmolean Museum inventory no. AN1909.453. Gold, garnet. Mid 7th century. The central roundel is divided into concentric rings, comprised of rectangular and T-shaped cloisonné work cells. The flared arms of the cross comprise a central panel divided…

National Archaeology Day at the Ashmolean Museum, 2005. Images of re-enactors and members of the public dressing up and working on Anglo-Saxon activities.

Ashmolean Museum inventory no. AN1909.207. Gold, garnet. c.550-650. Circular pendant inlaid with garnets and decorated with panels of gold filigree. The disc is divided into panels by the application of beaded wire in a concentric cross shape, at the…