ANGLO-SAXON INDEX
at Trinity College, Cambridge
http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/sdk13/asindex.html

Anglo-Saxon objects

under construction
(selection of images and scanning still in progress)

For objects in the British Museum, try searching their Compass database, which contains excellent images of numerous Anglo-Saxon objects. A search for 'anglo-saxon' produces 70 objects, with text and images. The 'Tours List' gives a link to 'The Anglo-Saxons: a Children's Tour', which includes the Sutton Hoo helmet and belt-buckle, the Franks Casket, the West Saxon royal finger rings, and the Fuller Brooch.

• Settlements and state formation (fifth and sixth centuries)
  • Plates from Saxon Obsequies illustrated by Ornaments and Weapons: discovered by the Hon. R. C. Neville in a Cemetery near Little Wilbraham, Cambridgeshire (London, 1852)
    • Cremation urns
    • Brooches
    • Bone combs
    • Necklaces
  • Sixth-century inhumation cemetery, at Eriswell/Lakenheath, Suffolk, excavated in October 1997
    • Burial of a man with a horse
    • more on this grave
  • <etc.>
• Political consolidation and religious conversion (seventh and eighth centuries)
  • The Kingston Brooch, discovered by Bryan Faussett on 5 August 1771, in Tumulus 205 at Kingston Down, Kent
    • The site of the tumuli (1855)
    • Drawings published in Inventorium Sepulchrale, ed. C. Roach Smith (1856), plate I
    • The Kingston Brooch (diam. 8 cm), now in Liverpool, Merseyside County Museum
  • Sutton Hoo, Suffolk
    • The ship burial in Mound 1, in process of excavation (1939)
    • search for 'Sutton Hoo' on the BM's Compass database
  • The Taplow barrow burial
    • The mound in process of excavation (1883)
    • The mound today
    • search for 'Taplow' on the BM's Compass database
  • Benty Grange, Derbyshire (Sheffield City Museum)
    • The boar-headed helmet (mid-seventh century), discovered in 1848
    • and the boar himself (after cleaning)
  • Wollaston, Northamptonshire
    • The boar-headed helmet, discovered in 1997
    • More on the helmet
  • The Franks Casket (eighth century)
    • search for 'Franks' on the BM's Compass database
  • The Bewcastle Cross (eighth century)
  • The Ruthwell Cross (eighth century)
• Northumbria
  • The York (or Coppergate) Helmet, inscribed 'In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Holy Spirit and God; and to all we say Amen. Oshere' (second half of the eighth century), now in the York Castle Museum
• Mercia, Wessex, and the Vikings (eighth and ninth centuries)
  • <etc.>
  • Two ninth-century West Saxon royal rings, one inscribed 'Ethelwulf rex' and the other inscribed 'Eathelswith regina'
    • King Æthelwulf, found in 1780 at Laverstock, Wilts.
      • drawing of the design
      • search BM Compass for Laverstock
    • Queen Æthelswith, found in 1870 at Aberford, West Yorks.
      • drawing of the design (Agnus Dei, Lamb of God)
      • search BM Compass for Aberford
  • The Alfred Jewel (and related objects)
    • The Alfred Jewel, found in 1693 near Athelney (Somerset), now in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
      • replicas of the Alfred Jewel
    • Other socketed objects of the same type, but lower grade
      • The Minster Lovell Jewel (Oxfordshire)
      • The Bowleaze Jewel (Dorset)
      • The Warminster Jewel (Wiltshire)
  • The Fuller Brooch (with personification of the Five Senses)
    • drawing
    • for colour image, search BM Compass for Fuller
• The Kingdom of the English (tenth and eleventh centuries)
  • Tenth-century stole and maniple, found in the tomb of St Cuthbert
  • <etc.>
  • Seal of Edith of Wilton (late tenth century), used in the later Middle Ages as the conventual seal of Wilton Abbey, Wilts.
    • drawing of a surviving impression
  • Three seal-matrices of laymen, used as symbols of identity or authority, or perhaps in association with written documents (late tenth- and eleventh- century); all three are now in the British Museum
    • Ælfric (SIGILLUM ÆLFRICI), found in 1832 at Weeke, Hants. (Okasha no. 119)
    • Wulfric (SIGILLUM WULFRICI), found in 1976 (in a box in a garden shed) at Sittingbourne, Kent (Okasha, Suppl. 1983, no. 176)
    • Godwine minister (thegn), with Godgyth monacha Deo data (nun given to God), found in 1879 at Wallingford, Berks. (Okasha no. 117)
      • Godwine (SIGILLUM GODWINI MINISTRI)
      • Godgyth (SIGILLUM GODGYTHE DEO DATE)
      • for further information on both, search for 'Godwin' on the BM's Compass database
  • The Sutton, Isle of Ely, Brooch
    • search for 'Ely brooch' on the BM's Compass database

The background image is the Fuller Brooch (in the British Museum)