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Sutton Hoo
* Sutton Hoo Society main site: www.suttonhoo.org
An aerial photo of the site at the welcome page; from here click "Excavations"
for photos of earlier excavations;
click "Another 6th/7th-Century Cemetery" for 8 photos of year 2000 excavations
.
* The Wuffings Page: www.wuffings.co.uk/MySHPages/SHPage.html
Aerial view by Cliff Hoppitt and links on this page to the following artifacts:
Buried ship imprint; replica-type ships
Burial chamber in ship
British museum replica sword blade
Elements of the sword hilt
Buckle and purse lid
Sword belt fastener
Shoulder clasp
Reconstructed helmet and replica
Reconstructed shield elements
* Elizabeth Peters of the University of Utah: www2.art.utah.edu:81/index.html
Click through "Christian Art" > "Early Middle Ages" > "British Isles"
Aerial view; ship grave and diagram
Buckle
Purse lid
Clasp and detail
Reconstructed shield
Helmet reconstruction (2 views and 2 views of replica)
"Sceptre" and detail
2 bowls
Lyre replica
* David Garcia at N.Y.U:
Clasp
Purse
lid
Helmet
Ship
burial imprint
Overall
site photo
* Britannia, Anglo-Saxon page:
Shield dragon element
Buckle
Shoulder clasp
* Michael Markowski's Westminster College page:
people.westminstercollege.edu/faculty/mmarkowski/212/6/sut.html
The reconstructed Helmet is on this page; links here are to images of:
Purse lid and coins
Drinking horns
Shield
A weapons display
* Candis Murray of the State University of New York-Albany:
www.albany.edu/faculty/wer52/GermanicArt.htm
Purse lid
Buckle
Two Viking prows
* Mary Anne Andrade at Collin County Community College District:
iws.ccccd.edu/andrade/britlit/beowulf/beowulf.html
Click "Sutton Hoo" for page with links to:
Reconstructed helmet
Boarcrest
Shield mount
Buckle
Necklace
Ring
modern painting of the burial of the ship.
b/w photo of excavated ship.
* Pace University's interdisciplinary course site:
www.csis.pace.edu/grendel/projs4a/sutton.htm
The 1939 excavation of Sutton Hoo
An iron helmet and the Sutton Hoo helmet reconstructed
Necklace, shield mount, ring
The Benty Grange boar helmet crest
www.csis.pace.edu/grendel/projs4a/be1.htm cup and drawing of warrior.
* University of Haifa's Library of Digitized Art: www-lib.haifa.ac.il/www/art/med/9_3_DETAILS.HTML
Ship burial excavation
Reconstructed helmet
Shoulder clasp
Purselid and detail of same
Buckle
* Glen Ray Crack's Battle of Hastings site: battle1066.com/sutton.shtml
Click "Chapter 3" for photo of Sutton Hoo site; click "Chapter 7" for computer-enhanced
pictures of:
Anastasius dish
Silver footed cup
Sword handle components
Buckle
Silver saucer
* Molly Overholt, English Department, Dartmouth University:www.dartmouth.edu/artsci/engl/engl18/caedmon.html
Reconstructed helmet (thumbnail)
Painting
of ship burial and detail (thumbnail)
* Australian National University, student projects site:
rubens.anu.edu.au/student.projects/hoo2/sword.html
Sword
pommel, 2 gold bosses, sword in situ (by Denise Gotte and Rebecca
Cole)
* Markus Balbach's page: www.boehlke-messer.de/messer/suttonh4.htm
Back and front images of sword reconstruction
* Rebecca Cole & Denise Gotte in course: Australian
Nat'l Univ.: rubens.anu.edu.au/student.projects/hoo2/mailcoat.html
Fragment of mailcoat
Shoulder clasp
O'Brien's Celtic and
Medieval Page: www.fortunecity.com/bally/cork/129/artifacts_as.html
photo link
University of South Florida
Medieval Art site:
The reconstructed helmet
The British Museum:
www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/world/britain/medieval/medieval.htm
Alex Bruce's 1996 University
of Georgia syllabus site:
parallel.park.uga.edu/~abruce/images/helmet/gif
Melanie's page: bay8.bjt.net/~melanie//akings.html
University of California,
Berkeley: ishi.lib.berkeley.edu/history155/slides/SH/index.html
(replica)
Westminster College history
site: www.wcslc.edu/history/the_face_of_the_invader_-sutt.html
Pike and Musket Society
site: www.routiers.org/3facesof.htm
(plus 2 replicas)
Purselid
Dan Reynold's site
on medieval art:
Korean National University
of Arts: www.knua.ac.kr/images/E-medieval/a%20purse.JPG
Stonehill College, Fine
Arts site: academics.stonehill.edu/Fine-Arts/History%20of%20Art/final_slides.htm
J. Buschen, University
of Wisconsin, River Falls: www.uwrf.edu/history/prints/a211c/suttonhoo.html
University of South Florida
Medieval Art site:
Great Buckle
Stephen Clancy at
Cornell University:
Aram Gerstein's "Freehand"
image: www.cinemagique.com/portfolio/images/index.html
* Raymond's Quiet Press
reproductions:
www.quietpresscom/Helm_Plaques.html
reproductions of 3 "Sutton Hoo" helm plaques
www.nmia.com/~rqpltd/Sutton_Hoo_Shield.html#shsma
reproductions of shield elements in embossed leather
* The Hoard's commercial site with images of their reproductions:
http://www.thehoard.co.uk/anglosaxon.htm
-helmet ornaments
-buckle
-sword fittings
-stag
* Current Archaeology site: www.archaeology.co.uk/timeline/saxon/suttonhoo/suttonhoo.htm
Broad aerial view of site;
horse and rider excavation; plan of this burial site; ship burial excavation
photo.
Weapons, Warfare, Warriors and
Re-enactors in Action
* Battle of Maldon site: www.airflow.net/maldon/maldon01.htm
Carving of warriors from Lindisfarne.
* Angelcynn's site: www.angelcynn.org.uk/
Uses frames: click on "Warfare" for two options: click "Warfare c.400 -
900 AD" for 6 photos of re-enactors in
gear and a drawing of "burgh building from and Anglo-Saxon manuscript";
click Anglo-saxon Wargear" for
re-enactors, sword hilt reproductions, helmets,
helmet fragments, spearpoints and mail.
* Raven's Warband re-enactors' site: www.millennia.demon.co.uk/ravens/photos.htm
Photos of Anglo-Saxon warrior re-enactors: gesith and skirmisher, warrior,
archer; warband, shieldwall.
* Glen Ray Crack's Battle of Hastings site: battle1066.com/saxpic.shtml
Photos of re-enactors in shield wall:
see pictures 2 - 7.
* St. Edmundsbury website: www.stedmundsbury.gov.uk/wstowtxt.htm
Photos of spearheads and and Anglo-Saxon
pot.
* Birka Traders site: www.ozemail.com.au/~chrisandpeter/shield/shield.html#Combat
techniques
Drawings and construction of a Viking shield.
* Medieval Sword Virtual Museum:
www.aiusa.com/medsword/vmframe.html
Photos and drawings of Anglo-Saxon swords.
* Lothene Experimental Archaeology site:
www.lothene.demon.co.uk/combat.html
Re-enactors in battle gear and combat.
* Regia Anglorum "Wichstow" site:
Re-enactors:
www.regia.org/Saxon1.htm
four photos of re-enactors in warrior gear
www.regia.org/fyrd2.htm
re-enactors: warriors, children, pre-battle blessing, shield
wall
www.regia.org/huscarl.htm
re-enactors in gear and in battle line
Weapons:
www.regia.org/scram.htmKnives,
scramaseaxe:
reproductions, one form museum of London; drawings.
www.regia.org/spear.htmSpears:
drawings and use by re-enactors
www.regia.org/bow.htmMissiles:
reproduction arrowheads; unidentified ms. page with martyrdom of St. Edmund;
from Bayeaux Tapestry: William w/ battle mace, use of flying mace and javelins,
slinger.
www.regia.org/sword.htmSwords:
reproduction hilts, blades of different types
Armor/Defense:
www.regia.org/Mail.htmMail:
reproduction: closeups and on re-enactors.
www.regia.org/shields.htmShields:
round and kite and shield walls (re-enactors)
www.regia.org/helmet.htmHelmets:
several reproductions and "phrygian cap" from BL MS Cotton Claudius B.
IV
* Medieval Scandinavia site:
* Western Michigan's Rawlinson Center's site: www.wmich.edu/medieval/rawl/maldon/index.html
The Maldon town's Statue of the warrior Byrhtnoth.
Musical Instruments
* Greg and Carolyn Priest-Dorman: www.cs.vassar.edu/~priestdo/lyre.figs.html#Fig.5
How
to build the lyre found in the image
of David in the Vespasian Psalter:
* Regia Anglorum site:
www.regia.org/music.htm
Reproductions of: gut string hard, Sutton Hoo lyre, deer bone whistles,
wood pan-pipes; images of hand bell ringers
from Bayeaux Tapestry; Vespasian Psalter David with lyre.
www.regia.org/thorvald.htm
Reproductions of Irish-style harp and gut-stringed harp.
* Elizabeth Peters of the University of Utah: www2.art.utah.edu:81/index.html
Click through "Christian Art" > "Early Middle Ages" > "British Isles"
Replica of Sutton Hoo harp
Clothing & Household Artefacts both authentic and reproduced; re-enactors
Clothing
* Angelcynn site: www.angelcynn.org.uk
Uses frames: click "Gallery" or "Clothing" for re-enactors in A/S clothing;
other pages under construction.
* O'Brien's Celtic and Medieval Page: www.fortunecity.com/bally/cork/129/garb.html
Links to images of Pictish, Irish and Anglo-Saxon clothing.
Artifacts
* Molly Overholt, English Department, Dartmouth University:www.dartmouth.edu/artsci/engl/engl18/riddle.html
Photo of drinking horn from the British Museum.
* Suffolk County Council site: www.suffolkcc.gov.uk/e_and_t/archaeology/erisell/page4.html.
Excavations at Eriswell Cemetery on Lakenheath Airbase: x-rays of
Anglo-Saxon artifacts:
Iron shield boss with silver appliques
Bronze annular brooch
Bronze cruciform brooch
2 plate brooches
Radiate headed brooch
Wrist clasps of coiled wire
* University of Nottingham page: www.ccc.nottingham.ac.uk/~aczkdc/tenyrs/benty.html
Benty
Grange artefacts, drawings, incl. boar's crest.
* Humber Archaeology Partnership site: www.hulcc.gov.uk/archaeology/flixpix3.htm
From the Flixborough excavation site: brooch backplate, zoomorphic
pin, lead "tank", zoomorphic mount, knife.
* Canterbury Archaeological Trust site: www.canterburytrust.co.uk/schools/randascr/rasfig13.htm
Drawings of artifacts found in Canterbury: combs, clasp, pins, pottery,
brooch.
* A.G. & S. Gillis Coins commercial site: www.gilliscoins.com/antiquities/dark_ages/index.htm
Anglo-Saxon items for sale vary but include strap ends, pins, brooches,
etc.
* Museum Reproductions commercial site: www.museumreproductions.co.uk/saxon.htm
Anglo-Saxon/Viking-era reproductions of pins, strap ends, stirrup mount,
weight, brooches, bridle bits, fastener.
* Raymond's Quiet Press reproductions:
www.nmia.com/~rqpltd/saxondress.html#tb11
reproductions of brooches, including museum pieces
www.nmia.com/~rqpltd/Saxon_Belt_Tips.html
reproduction Saxon belt tips
www.nmia.com/~rqpltd/saxonbelt.html#b54
reproduction belt fittings and buckles
* Regia Anglorum site: www.regia.org/games.htm
Gaming boards, dice, toys, coins (all reproductions).
Re-enactors
* Lothene Experimental Archaeological site: www.lothene.demon.co.uk/crafts.html
Cooking, spinning wool, tablet weaving, embroidery, reproduction of a leather
pouch.
* Regia Anglorum pages:
www.regia.org/Saxons1.htm
peasants or farmers
www.regia.org/food.htm
skinning a deer, jointing pork, cooking on hanging griddle
www.regia.org/feasting.htm
meal, cooking; "idealized feast scene from a Saxon manuscript
www.regia.org/ovens.htm
an "Anglo-Saxon style oven"
www.regia.org/aelfric.htm
charcoal burning: re-enactor and drawing
Works of High Artistic Quality
Fuller Brooch
* Simon Keynes' bibliography site www.wmich.edu/medieval/rawl/keynes1/home.htm
The image here is of a drawing of the brooch.
* The Hoard's commercial site with a reproduction: www.thehoard.co.uk/fuller.htm
Kingston Down Brooch
* Images of History site: www.hp.uab.edu/image_archive/ujg/fibula18.jpg
* Lawrence Nees of the University of
Delaware: site under reconstruction
* The Hoard's commercial site with a reproduction:
www.thehoard.co.uk/kingston.htm
Strickland Brooch
* The Hoard's commercial site with
a reproduction: www.thehoard.co.uk/strickland.htm
Taplow Buckle
* The Hoard's commercial site with
a reproduction: www.thehoard.co.uk/taplow.htm
Chelsey Ring
* The Hoard's commercial site with
a reproduction: www.thehoard.co.uk/chelsey.htm
Alfred Jewel
* Ken Robert's site: www.mirror.org/people/ken.roberts/alfred.jewel.html
* Ashmolean Museum site: www.ashmol.ox.ac.uk/ash/guide/t-text/room35.html
* Elizabeth Peters of the University
of Utah: www2.art.utah.edu:81/index.html
Click through "Christian Art" > "Early Middle Ages" > "British Isles"
Franks Casket
* O'Brien's Celtic and Medieval Page:
www.fortunecity.com/bally/cork/129/artifacts_as.html
Links here to two images of the casket.
* Catholic University of America Western
Medieval art: arts-sciences.cua.edu/gl/department/Western_Medieval.html
Side
with Romulus and Remus
Side
with Sack of Troy
Front
view
St. Cuthbert's Pectoral Cross
* Historic Northumberland site: www.northumberland.gov.uk/VG/images/cthcrs.jpg
Bayeux Tapestry
* University of Haifa's Library of Digitized
Art: http://www-lib.haifa.ac.il/www/art/med/15_7_DETAILS.HTML
Twenty-two
images of the tapestry. [At present picture links
are broken.]
* Molly Overholt, English Department, Dartmouth
University: www.dartmouth.edu/artsci/engl/engl18/hastings.html
Four photos from the tapestry.
* Nick Austin's "Secrets of the Norman Invasion"
site: www.cablenet.net/pages/book/index.html
Site has 14 b/w photos of the tapestry; scroll down for links to the images.
* Florida State University: Classroom Version of the Digital Edition: www.english.fsu.edu/bayeux/
* Regia Anglorum site: www.regia.org/pastimes.htm
Image of Harold hunting with falcon.
Various Works
* O'Brien's Celtic and Medieval Page:
www.fortunecity.com/bally/cork/129/artifacts_as.html
Links at this site provide images of:
8 Kentish brooches, dated 575 - 625
Pendant
Enamel ornament
Walrus ivory casket
Ivory panel of Ascension (8th-century)
Ivory panel of Christ trampling lion & dragon (8th-century)
Ivory panel of monastic scribes (10th-century)
Religious and in-situ sculptures, frescoes, furniture, etc.
* Brandon, Suffolk, St. John Plaque: http://www.eaareports.org.uk/
* Stonyhurst (Cuthbert) Bible cover
Kate Martinson, Luther
College: faculty.luther.edu/~martinka/art43/daily/2nd/ston.jpg
Britannia site:
* Kate Martinson, Luther College: faculty.luther.edu/~martinka/art43/daily/2nd/lind1.jpg
* East Anglian Archaeology site: www.eaareports.demon.co.uk/angsax.html
Carving in wood of John Evangelist symbol of human with eagle head from
Brandon, Suffolk.
* Michael Markowski's site at Westminster College:
people.westminstercollege.edu/faculty/mmarkowski/212/6/jar4.html
Jarrow:
Abbey dedication stone.
people.westminstercollege.edu/faculty/mmarkowski/212/6/jar5.html
Jarrow:
A/S-era wooden chair.
Frescoes
* Nether Wallop, St. Andrew's parish site: www.hantsnet.org.uk/wallop/majesty.html
Angel detail of "Christ in Majesty" fresco.
* Anne Marshall's Medieval Wall Painting site:
www.paintedchurch.org/hought.htm
Houghton-on-Hill: detail of apostles from "Trinity and Last Judgment" fresco.
www.paintedchurch.org/breamcru.htm
Breamore painted Rood bas-relief sculpture.
Dacre Bears
* Visit Cumbria site:
* Cumbria Lake District site: www.cumbrialakedistrict.com/anglian.htm
Hedda Stone
* Peterborough Cathedral site: www.peterborough-cathedral.org.uk/gallery/hedda.gif
* David Postle's site at the University of Leicester: www.le.ac.uk/elh/pot/img2/pete1.html
Other Sculpted Objects in situ
Romsey, Abbey Church of Sts. Mary and Aethelflaed
Britannia site: www.britannia.com/church/saxchurch/romsey.html
2 crucifixes inside.
Choir of Romsey Abbey
site:
www.romseyabbeychoir.org.uk/abbey.htm
Photo of Saxon rood
Anne Marshall's Medieval
Wall Painting site: www.paintedchurch.org/romrood.htm
Juxtaposed photos of Romsey Abbey Rood with Breamore Rood
sculpture.
* Anne Marshall's Medieval Wall Painting site:www.paintedchurch.org/breamisn.htm
Breamore
Church, A/S/ inscription in arch.
* David Postle's site at the University of Leicester: www.le.ac.uk/elh/pot/leics/around.html
Amesbury
Church, lavatorium; uses frames; go to #190 on left menu.
* Castor & Ailsworth Millennium Site: wwwcastorailsworth.free-online.co.uk/kyne.htm
Photos of 2 sculptural fragments associated with St. Kyneburgha:
sarcophagus carving and capital.
* David Postle's site at the University of Leicester: www.le.ac.uk/elh/pot/lincs/edenim.html
Edenham
pre-viking sculpture.
* Cotswold Hyperguide site: www.digital-brilliance.com/hyperg/villages/bibury/bib04.jpg
Bibury,
St. Mary's church, tombstone (Viking?) set into church wall.
* Historic Hexham Trust site: www.tynedale-online.co.uk/hexhamhistory/treasures.htm
Hexham
Priory, cathedra, stone sculptural fragments and figural sculpture.
* Tony Kroch's site at the University of Pennsylvania:
www.ling.upenn.edu/~kroch/scand/kirkdale.html
Kirkdale,
St. Gregory's Minster, sundial.
Other Artifacts and Such
* Cathy Ball's site: http://www.georgetown.edu/cball/oe/oe-art.html
Scroll down for decorative clip art of A/S motifs.
* Church Times site: copies.anglicansonline.org/churchtimes/991022/feat.htm
Photo of Viking treasure trove, coins & ornaments.
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