Anglo Saxon Griffin Brooch
£27.85The original is a Mercian silver-gilt brooch found at the Anglo Saxon monastery of Repton. The Griffin is a classic example seen in Byzantine illuminated manuscripts. 800 AD. Derbyshire Museum. Width 32mm.
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The original is a Mercian silver-gilt brooch found at the Anglo Saxon monastery of Repton. The Griffin is a classic example seen in Byzantine illuminated manuscripts. 800 AD. Derbyshire Museum. Width 32mm.
The silvered bronze original was found in a grave at Standlake, Oxfordshire.7th century AD. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
5th to 6th century AD. The bronze original is a stray find from Yarm, Clevelend. The terminals derive from zoomorphic (animal – like) design. A relatively unusual find from North – East England. It would have been used to fasten a cloak. Cleveland Archaeology, Middllesborough, England. Width 55mm
The bronze original was one of a pair worn by a woman and buried with her. Circa 6th century AD. It can be seen at Moyse's Hall Museum, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk. Height 61mm.
Anglo-Saxon Equal Arm brooch. c 600 AD. The original of this unusual bronze brooch – a derivation of the exotic equal-arm brooches of the fifth century – was found in one of a series of graves in the Anglo-Saxon burial mound at Berinsfield, Oxford. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. L52
Anglo-Saxon wrist clasp. 6th century AD. The silver-gilt original is a triangular part of a wrist-clasp set, used to decorate a sleeve cuff. Found at Mildenhall. Moyse's Hall, Bury St. Edmunds. Height 47mm
7th century AD. Excavated at Bamburgh Castle, Northumberland, 1971. Modelled representation. Length 48mm
10 – 12th century AD. This beautifully stylized horse seems to imply it is wearing a saddle. The original, from Antioch, Beirut or Smyrna would have been used to fasten a cloak. Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. L40
6th – 7th century AD. All that was found of this brooch at Dynas, Powys was one decorated terminal. A reconstruction was made by Mrs. L Mumsford. The form of the pin was not known but this reconstruction was completed to compliment the terminals. Cast in bronze with red enamel. The original is in the…
Saxon Bronze Long Brooch. Found at Myton, Warwickshire, reproduced in miniature size. The original is at Warwick Museum. Gold plated with enamel. Height 50mm
Saxon Bronze Long Brooch. Found at Myton, Warwickshire, reproduced in miniature size. The original is at Warwick Museum. Bronze colour with enamel. Height 50mm
Saxon Shield Mount. 7th century AD. The bronze-gilt (ormolu) original was excavated from Burial Mound No. 2 at Sutton Hoo in 1939. The Sutton Hoo burial forms one of the greatest treasures in the British Museum. This piece is just one of many spectacular objects found in the burial chamber of an Anglo-Saxon King that…
c. 640 670 AD. The gold original is decorated with cloisonné enamel, garnets and a white shell centre. St. Cuthbert entered a monastery at the age of 15. As a Prior he travelled to remote places to spread the Gospel and later became the Prior of Lindisfarne. For many years he was a recluse on…