disc brooch - British Museum
WEBThe brooch is one of a small number of large late Saxon silver disc brooches. In addition its superb state of preservation and its unusually erudite iconography mark it out as an exceptional survival from a troubled period of Viking invasions.
Decoding Anglo-Saxon art - British Museum
WEBMay 28, 2014 · The intricate designs of Anglo-Saxon brooches, buckles, and other pieces of decorative metalwork are not just pretty decoration, they have multi-layered symbolic meanings and tell stories. Curator Rosie Weetch and Illustrator Craig Williams team up to decode some key Anglo-Saxon objects.
Fuller Brooch - Wikipedia
WEBThe Fuller Brooch is an Anglo-Saxon silver and niello brooch dated to the late 9th century, which is now in the British Museum, where it is normally on display in Room 41. [1] The elegance of the engraved decoration depicting the Five Senses, highlighted by being filled with niello, makes it one of the most highly regarded pieces of Anglo-Saxon ...
disc brooch - British Museum
WEBGraham-Campbell 1980 The brooch type is Anglo-Saxon (Bruce-Mitford 1956; Wilson 1964, 52f.), but the ornament, which is poor in the quality of its draughtsmanship and engraving, is a mixture of degenerate renderings of …
Fuller Brooch | Anglo-Saxon Archaeology - Archeurope
WEBThe Fuller Brooch is an Anglo-Saxon silver and niello brooch which dates to the late ninth-century. The brooch is a large disc made of hammered sheet silver inlaid with black niello and with a diameter of 114 mm, engraved decoration depicting the Five Senses, highlighted by being filled with niello.
Strickland Brooch - Wikipedia
WEBThe Strickland Brooch is an Anglo-Saxon silver and niello disc brooch dated to the mid 9th century, now in the British Museum. [1] Although its exact provenance is unknown, it is regarded by scholars as a rare and important example of an Anglo-Saxon brooch.
The Fuller Brooch — Google Arts & Culture
WEBThe Fuller Brooch. 850/899. British Museum. London, United Kingdom. This splendid circular brooch is made from hammered sheet silver. The centre part is decorated with five figures who...
Anglo-Saxon brooches - Wikipedia
WEBAnglo-Saxon brooches are a large group of decorative brooches found in England from the fifth to the eleventh centuries. In the early Anglo-Saxon era, there were two main categories of brooch: the long (bow) brooch and the circular (disc) brooch.
Sisters discover 'epic' Anglo-Saxon brooch at campsite - BBC
WEBSep 7, 2024 · Two sisters who discovered an Anglo-Saxon brooch at a campsite have had their find authenticated by the British Museum. Georgia, 10, and Evie, 12, found the brooch - which dates back to the 6th...
disc brooch - British Museum
WEBThe single main animal interlaced with a snake makes it the nearest piece of metalwork in England to the Scandinavian Urnes style animal-brooches (Reykjavík, (NM): 6524; Aalborg Historiske Museum: 129x1397), but the circular scalloped frame and the looped body (cp. 148), with its beaded border, are all non-Scandinavian features.