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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,…

AN00773120_001_l. Silver chalice (reconstructed), formed of separate foot, stem and cup, originally riveted together; the bowl is gilded internally. Just below the gilded rim are a number of rivet holes perhaps indicating the former presence of an…

AN00755492_001_l. Silver wire spiral finger-ring. 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…

A Pictish treasure hoard discovered in 1958 on St Ninian's Isle, Shetland, buried beneath a stone slab marked with a cross, on what is believed to be the site of an early chapel. The hoard consists of various items of silver metalwork, some pieces…

AN00755492_001_l. Silver wire spiral finger-ring. 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…

AN00697144_001_l. Gilt silver spoon with baluster stem joined to hemispherical bowl by punched sub-triangular plate with zigzag; 5 holes in bowl. Plus brooches. All these images are © Trustees of the British Museum. These free low-resolution images…

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.…

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…

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…