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A PowerPoint presentation with recent (2006) photographs. St Gregory's Minster, in beautiful setting in Kirkdale, North Yorkshire, has a sundial that records its renovation -- just a few years before the Norman Conquest. The sundial also…

PowerPoint presentation with recent (2006) photographs. St Peter's Church in Hackness, North Yorkshire, contains a remarkable Anglo-Saxon memorial cross (8th century), which commemorates 'Abbess Oedilburga' (possibly Ethelburga). Reflecting the…

Ashmolean Museum inventory no. AN1978.332. c.1000-1050. Walrus ivory. H. 8.3, W. 5.8. Originally rectangular panel, now damaged. The enthroned Virgin sits with the Christ-child on her lap, who is blessing with one hand and holding a book with the…

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…

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…

In 1857 the antiquarian and prodigious benefactor Sir Augustus Wollaston Franks lighted on a small, odd-looking whalebone box in an antique shop in Paris. He purchased it immediately, having recognized that the box was of Anglo-Saxon origin, and…

Additions to the Leofric Missal, described by Ker (1957), pp. 378-379. All these images are © Bodleian Library. The full image collection is available at: http://image.ox.ac.uk/.

Described by Ker (1957) p. 351 as 'Donations to Exeter by Leofric and Athelstan' the manuscript contains Latin Gospels with beast-headed evangelist portraits made at Landévennec, Brittany, late 9th or early 10th century, supplemented in the 11th…

AN00037374_001_l. Cross-shaft; stone; decorated; all four faces carry panels of running vine-scroll ornament in three varieties; also an additional small fragment, previously assembled with wooden mount between the two pieces. All these images are ©…

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…