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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.…

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…

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…

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…

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,…