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Scabbard-chape
National Museums of Scotland, inventory no. FC 282. Scabbard-chape -- Three piece U-shaped casting; silver, gilding and blue glass; 8.1cm max width.
Terminates in two stylised beast heads, each trapping a small fish-like creature in its jaws.…
Terminates in two stylised beast heads, each trapping a small fish-like creature in its jaws.…
Tags: Archaeology, Art history, Hoard, Pictish, Religion, Weapons
Sheet metal fragments
National Museums of Scotland, inventory no. FC 179.
Sheet metal fragments -- Gilded copper embossed strip, embossed sheet with arcaded vine pattern, embossed and chased sheet and gilded copper fragments from 5 bosses. Possibly fragments of a shrine…
Sheet metal fragments -- Gilded copper embossed strip, embossed sheet with arcaded vine pattern, embossed and chased sheet and gilded copper fragments from 5 bosses. Possibly fragments of a shrine…
Tags: Archaeology, Cross, NMS, Religion
Ivory Plaque
AN00739927_001_l. Plaque; ivory; mandorla-shaped; raised rim; carved with Christ in Majesty seated on rainbow, blessing and holding book; two pairs of attachment holes; plain reverse; chipped right-hand edge. All these images are © Trustees of the…
Tags: Archaeology, Art history, British Museum, Ivory, Religion
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
The Franks Casket
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…
The Fuller Brooch
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…
Tags: Archaeology, Art history, British Museum, Brooch, Jewellery, Religion, Silverwork
Casket Side Panel
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…
Tags: Archaeology, Art history, British Museum, Religion, Silverwork
Silver Scourge
AN00274047_001_l. Silver scourge: one strand of trichinopoly chainwork is doubled and the two strands so formed are held together by plaited loops of wire at five unequally spaced places. The chain terminates in a large loop, or knot, from which…