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Highlights from the world of Sutton Hoo, AD 300–1100
From October 2011
Room 2
Admission free
The British Museum’s collections covering the period AD 300 to 1100 are among the largest and most comprehensive in the world, extending from Spain to the Black Sea and from North Africa to Scandinavia.
This display showcases highlights from the collections while their permanent home, Room 41, is being refurbished. The new gallery will reopen in late 2013.
Objects on display in Room 2 during this period include famous finds from the ship-burial at Sutton Hoo, as well as other artefacts that reflect the great artistic achievements of the period, from the end of the Roman Empire to the consolidation of Europe and the Norman Conquest in England.
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Sutton Hoo ship-burial helmet
England, early 7th century AD
More information about the helmetSutton Hoo ship-burial helmet
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The Franks Casket
Anglo-Saxon, first half of the 8th century AD,
Northumbria, England
More information about the Franks casketThe Franks Casket
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The Fuller brooch
Anglo-Saxon, late 9th century AD
More information about the Fuller broochThe Fuller brooch
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Lothair Crystal
From Lotharingia (Lorraine), possibly Aachen (in modern Germany), Carolingian, AD 855–869
More information about the Lothair CrystalLothair Crystal
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Ivory panel showing an archangel
Byzantine, about AD 525–550, from Constantinople (modern Istanbul, Turkey)
More information about the ivory panelIvory panel showing an archangel
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St Cuileáin's bell shrine
Irish, 7th or 8th (iron bell) and early 12th centuries (brass shrine) AD, from Glankeen, County Tipperary, Ireland
More information about the bell shrineSt Cuileáin's bell shrine