Anglo Saxon

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REPLICA of a beautiful helmet of an Anglo-Saxon king. Middle Ages, about 620 C.E. Wikipedia.

Helmets

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A sixth century Anglo-Saxon wrist clasp, made of gilt silver with remains of niello.

Silver wrist cases from Market Overton - used to keep Anglo-saxon sleeves tidy!

Wrist Clasps

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backing paste exist. This would have bulked up the cells beneath the patterned gold foils into which

New pieces have been found and added to the Strattfordshire Hoard. This connects to a good article about the find.

Staffordshire Hoard

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7th C. Silver pin with cloisonné garnet pelta-shaped head of two bird heads on gold base with collared granules; rivet on back of head.

Late 6thC Anglo-Saxon dress pin. Sleaford, Lincolnshire.

Minster Lovell Jewel in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Anglo-Saxon. 9th Century.

Pins & Pointers

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Anglo-Saxon Zoomorphic Mount. Circa, 10th-11th century AD. Copper-alloy, 4.80 grams. 18.57 mm. An Anglo-Saxon rectangular mount depicting a regardant beast against a plain field, almost fully gilded in the field and recesses. The beast is crouching left with its head turned back facing the raised tail. Ref: British Artefacts, fig. 1.6-n. Property of a retired detectorist.

Mounts

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One-Piece Walrus Ivory Comb Double-edged, fine teeth on one side, coarse on the other. Carved with pair of cat-like animals and a serpent. Late Anglo-Saxon, 10th/11th century.

Comb, 8th - 9th century (made). Comb, bone, with bronze rivets, Anglo-Saxon, probably 9th - 10th century. Victoria and Albert Museum - Museum Number 809-1877.

The two side plates of a late Saxon, decorated bone comb. They would have held the teeth plates sandwiched between them.

Grooming

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7thC Anglo-Saxon drinking horn mount detail. Taplow burial. Photograph courtesy Lindsay Kerr. Interlacing hands.

"Terminal for a drinking horn. Probably Anglo-Saxon? From the collection of the Asholean Museum, Oxford, Oxfordshire, England." Looks very Hiberno-Saxon

Drinking Horns & Fittings

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@ Ashmolean Museum, Oxford Anglo-Saxon/Frankish 600-700, gold, glass and garnet

Anglo-Saxon equal-arm brooch from grave 90 at Mucking, Essex (gilded copper-alloy with iron pin mechanism). Belongs to Böhme's type Sahlenberg, 5th century AD. From the British Museum's collection (accession number: 1970,0406.1)

Other Brooches

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"Pottery cremation urn. Anglo-Saxon, 6th-7th century AD [...] at Loveden Hill, Lincolnshire. [...] was found to contain a burned assemblage belong to a middle ranking woman. It included part of a bone comb, fragments of bronze which had been distorted by heat, including parts of three brooches, pieces of iron binding and fused glass beads from a necklace." (BM) "runic inscription ᛋᛇᚦᚫᛒᚫᛞ || ᚦᛁᚢᚹ || ᚻᛚᚫ[ᚹ] (sïþæbæd þiuw hlæ[w] "the grave of Siþæbæd the maid."" (Wikipedia)

A Saxon blackware pottery urn with everted neck and pedestal base, the shoulder decorated with geometric panels of stamped ornament, the body with four solid bosses and groups of incised vertical lines, short section of rim lacking, 6th century A.D., 4.5in high, 6.25in diameter.

An Anglo- Saxon glass bottle, found in Faversham, Kent, King's Field Cemetery. Many wonderful things were found when the railways were being built in the 1860's, this being one along with 20 gold brooches it would have been maybe the largest Anglo-Saxon find, but became a Victorian free for all, and the finds were not recorded properly and scattered.

Pottery & Glass

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Viking ship burial found at Sutton Hoo, UK. discovered by Basil Brown, a great self-taught archaeologist.

Sutton Hoo

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Cabachon Ring found in Leeds, West Yorkshire - an unusually large, complete and spectacular gold ring with a lozenge-shaped bezel set with a garnet gem. Anglo-Saxon pieces of such high quality are extremely rare. It was made to be displayed as a sign of great wealth and status and is in near perfect condition.

The Dover Saxon Ring, c.550AD. A magnificent and important Anglo Saxon Gold ring.

Rings

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6th-century glass bead, discovered while carefully recording an Anglo Saxon grave.

Beads

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Saxon (AD 450 - 1066) Iron knife with inlaid silver decoration: c. 1000 Description: Iron knife with inlaid silver decoration on both sides. The decoration consists of twisted silver and copper wires hammered into the blade it has also a silver plate with lettering. On one side it reads: "OSMHND", which was probably the owner's name - Osmund.

Single-Edged Knife (Scramasax) 500-700 Merovingian The scramasax, a single-edged knife, was a general purpose implement. It could serve equally well as a tool or as a weapon and generally did not exceed 12 inches in length. As with most objects of the Migration period, iron weapons survive as excavated grave goods and tend to be heavily corroded.

Swords & Sword Fittings

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These burial treasures open a window into early Anglo-Saxon East Anglia – Museum Crush

9th century cross from the Galloway Hoard Fit for a king: true glory of 1,000-year-old cross buried in Scottish field is revealed at last.

This circular pendant and gold and glass beads come from Grave 70 at Street House – a 7th-century cemetery near Loftu. [Image: Steve Sherlock]

Pendants

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Anglo-Saxon Silver Strap-End Silver, 7.43 grams, 40.72 mm. An antique casting of an Anglo-Saxon zoomorphic silver strap-end. The front of the piece is detailed with a central panel enclosing a stylised beast bordered with a series of annulets. Above are two rivets and below, a terminal in the form of an animal head with large ears and eyes projecting from the sides of its head. Property of a private collector.

Early Medieval Strap-End. Circa 10th-12th century AD. Copper-alloy, 7.69 grams. 40.26 mm. A late Saxon or Norman period zoomorphic strap-end. Then body is flat and detailed with a cross-hatched design with traces of gilding that tapers to the terminal. Formed of a stylised animal head with long upturned snout. Ref: British Artefacts, vol 2. fig. 1.3-o.

Belt Buckles & Bits

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Saxon Brooch. Circa, 8th-9th century AD. Copper-alloy, 7.58 grams, 39.93 mm. A Middle Saxon (Early Medieval) copper alloy ansate or caterpillar brooch. U-shaped in section and formed of two equal arms with a high arch in the centre. The arms are decorated with ridges and a series of horizontal lines between. The central arch is also decorated with a serrated ridge through the centre and a double incised line on each side. Ref: A Visual Catalogue... (2007) Hattatt p380 fig 239 and LIN-1B9461. Al

LIN-7A73C4: Anglo-Saxon small long brooch

Anglo-Saxon ‘Cabochon’ Bird Brooch 013925

Fibulae

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This rare early medieval silver brooch was made around AD 800–900, and was found by Mr Sansome on farmland near Cheddar in Somerset, south west England in October 2020. It’s an elaborate object and would have been owned by a high-status person, but the circumstances of its discovery – found with no other significant objects – suggest the brooch was lost rather than buried for safekeeping.

Swallowcliffe Mount | The Salisbury Museum

Round Brooches

Saxon Bead

6th-century glass bead, discovered while carefully recording an Anglo Saxon grave.

a cross and a button on a gray surface with a white object in the foreground

Über die magischen Schwertperlen

Including a large gilt bronze saucer brooch with a raised central boss, surrounded by a band of running spirals enclosed by two raised concentric circles, the outer one serrated, circa 5th-6th Century A.D., 2 1/8in (5.4cm) diam; a cruciform brooch with a zoomorphic foot, the bow arching to join the openwork rectangular headplate, composed of conjoined zoomorphic elements extending from both sides of the top and side-knops, circa 6th-7th Century A.D., 4¾in (12cm) long; a near pair Ancient History, Ancient History Archaeology, Concentric Circles, Long A, D 2

Ancient History

Ancient History Archaeology

Concentric Circles

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Seven Anglo-Saxon and Migration Period bronze items 7

Including a large gilt bronze saucer brooch with a raised central boss, surrounded by a band of running spirals enclosed by two raised concentric circles, the outer one serrated, circa 5th-6th Century A.D., 2 1/8in (5.4cm) diam; a cruciform brooch with a zoomorphic foot, the bow arching to join the openwork rectangular headplate, composed of conjoined zoomorphic elements extending from both sides of the top and side-knops, circa 6th-7th Century A.D., 4¾in (12cm) long; a near pair

Disc brooch AD 800–900

This rare early medieval silver brooch was made around AD 800–900, and was found by Mr Sansome on farmland near Cheddar in Somerset, south west England in October 2020. It’s an elaborate object and would have been owned by a high-status person, but the circumstances of its discovery – found with no other significant objects – suggest the brooch was lost rather than buried for safekeeping.

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Saxon (AD 450 - 1066) Iron knife with inlaid silver decoration: c. 1000 Description: Iron knife with inlaid silver decoration on both sides. The decoration consists of twisted silver and copper wires hammered into the blade it has also a silver plate with lettering. On one side it reads: "OSMHND", which was probably the owner's name - Osmund.

Swallowcliffe Mount - The Salisbury Museum

Swallowcliffe Mount | The Salisbury Museum

Gilt copper alloy disc-on-bow brooch: rectangular head-plate with two studs inlaid with garnet discs securing white paste discs in cloisonné garnet panel; large disc on punch-decorated bow has ring of wedge-shaped garnets enclosing white paste secured by stud with garnet disc; foot with Y-shaped cloisonné panel flanked by Style II bird heads with garnet eyes and terminal disc with white inlay secured by garnet-inlaid stud; beaded borders. Early Middle Ages, Ancient Jewellery, Replica Jewelry, Ancient Vikings, Historical Jewellery, Medieval Jewelry, Ancient People, Ancient Jewelry

Disc-on-bow Brooch - British Museum

Gilt copper alloy disc-on-bow brooch: rectangular head-plate with two studs inlaid with garnet discs securing white paste discs in cloisonné garnet panel; large disc on punch-decorated bow has ring of wedge-shaped garnets enclosing white paste secured by stud with garnet disc; foot with Y-shaped cloisonné panel flanked by Style II bird heads with garnet eyes and terminal disc with white inlay secured by garnet-inlaid stud; beaded borders.

Disc-on-bow brooches. Cast out of bronze, with gilding and silver, garnet, cloisonné, and shell inlay. Made in the 500s for an Anglo-Saxon aristocrat(s) in Gotland, Sweden. Currently held at the British Museum. Saxon History, Gotland Sweden, Anglo Saxon History, Bow Brooch, Viking History, 2 Rings, Stamped Concrete

Disc-on-bow Brooch

Disc-on-bow brooches. Cast out of bronze, with gilding and silver, garnet, cloisonné, and shell inlay. Made in the 500s for an Anglo-Saxon aristocrat(s) in Gotland, Sweden. Currently held at the British Museum.