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Reliquary of St Eustace
From the ninth century onwards containers for the relics of …
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Repeat and calendar watch by Abraham Louis Breguet, no. 65
Abraham Louis Breguet was the most celebrated of all French …
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Revolving signet ring
This large, heavy ring is a masterpiece of technical virtuos…
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Shield from the ship-burial at Sutton Hoo (reconstruction)
A shield, together with a sword, makes up an important part …
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Shoulder clasps from the ship-burial at Sutton Hoo
The shoulder-clasps are heavy and made in two halves, which …
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Shrine boss
This once sumptuously decorated boss would originally have b…
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Silver and gold buckle decorated with a fish
The fish on this buckle is seen from above, with its head fa…
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Silver bowl
The bowl, or pyx, is made of gilded silver and niello . It h…
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Silver brooch
This gilded silver radiate -headed brooch is decorated with …
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Silver gilt and garnet brooch with a runic inscription
The inscription is lightly scratched in runes on the back of…
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Silver gilt mount from a sword scabbard
The sword was the most prestigious weapon an Anglo-Saxon man…
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Silver knife mount with runic inscription
This fragment of a gilded silver fitting was discovered in t…
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Silver ring brooch
This handsome brooch is said to have come from the ancient r…
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Silver-gilt casket
The lid of this casket has heraldic devices which inform us …
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Silver-gilt ewer and basin
The well of the basin is inscribed with the arms of Robert d…
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Silver-gilt ewer and basin by Pierre Harrache
The helmet-shaped ewer was one of the new forms introduced i…
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Silver-gilt tazza with a scene showing Vulcan's Forge
This silver-gilt tazza (footed bowl) bears the mark of a mem…
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Six disc brooches from the Pentney hoard
The brooches of this extraordinary hoard are principally mad…
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St Conall Cael's bell
This iron hand bell is said to have originally belonged to S…
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Sword from the ship-burial at Sutton Hoo
Anglo-Saxon sword blades are made using a technique known as…
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Sword grip and pommel
This elegant silver sword hilt was found in the nineteenth c…
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Table clock by Henry Jones
Following the introduction of the pendulum by Christiaan Huy…
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The Armada Service
The service comprises a set of twenty-six parcel gilt (partl…
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The Bowleaze Cove jewel
This gold and glass fitting was apparently found in a landsl…
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The Desborough Necklace
This necklace is the finest of its kind surviving from Anglo…
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The Dunstable Swan Jewel
The Dunstable Swan Jewel is a livery badge of the highest or…
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The Goodricke Cup
The Goodricke Cup is a standing cup in the form of an ostric…
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The Halton Moor hoard
The decoration on this fine cup, from a hoard found at Halto…
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The Londesborough Brooch
This silver and gold brooch belongs to a 'Golden Age' in Iri…
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Lothair Crystal
Each scene is accompanied by an inscription drawn from the V…
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The Lycurgus Cup
This extraordinary cup is the only complete example of a ver…
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The Lyte Jewel
The 'Lyte Jewel' is in fact an enamelled gold locket. The op…
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The Marlborough ice pails
Ice pails, containing one bottle of wine, were intended to b…
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The marriage of Alexander the Great and Roxanna, a chased gold plaque made by Ishmail Parbury
The recognition and development of the art of chasing in Eng…
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The Noah Cameo
This cameo is carved from onyx, with a scene of the family o…
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The Phoenix Jewel
On the front of this gold pendant is a silhouette bust of Qu…
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The Pitney Brooch
This elegant openwork brooch was found in a churchyard. The …
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The Projecta Casket
This casket is one of the most important and magnificent exa…
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The Strickland Brooch
The history of this elaborate silver disc brooch is almost u…
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The Twelve Sibyls enamel plaques by Léonard Limousin
The set of plaques depict the Twelve Sibyls, ancient prophet…
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The Wilton Cross
This pendant displays the reverse of a lightweight solidus o…
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Two silver gilt disc brooches
The larger of these two brooches bears three keystone-shaped…
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Bracelets from the Hoxne hoard
The Hoxne (pronounced 'Hoxon') hoard is the richest find of …
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Electrum torc from Snettisham (Hoard G)
This torc is part of hoard G found at Snettisham, which was …
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Fragment of a tubular torc from Snettisham
This is the squashed end of a torc made from a tube of gold.…
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Gold body-chain from the Hoxne hoard
The Hoxne (pronounced 'Hoxon') hoard is the richest find of …
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Gold jewellery from the Hoxne hoard
The Hoxne (pronounced 'Hoxon') hoard is the richest find of …
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Gold rings from the Thetford treasure
These twenty-two finger-rings form part of a remarkable hoar…
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Gold torc from the Snettisham hoard L
This torc had been made some years before it was buried at S…
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Silver plaque and gold disc from the Water Newton treasure
These objects are part of a hoard of silver vessels and plaq…
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Silver statuette of Harpocrates
The figure, a naked child with a finger to his mouth, depict…
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The Backworth treasure
Inscriptions on the silver pan and on one of the rings indic…
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The Great Torc from Snettisham
This torc was made with great skill and tremendous care in t…
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The Hoxne Hoard
The Hoxne (pronounced 'Hoxon') hoard consists of over 15,000…
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The Juliana Bracelet from the Hoxne hoard
The Hoxne (pronounced 'Hoxon') hoard is the richest find of …
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The Rillaton gold cup
Workmen engaged in construction work in 1837 plundered a bur…
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Bronze figure of Isis and Horus
Family groups of deities became very popular in the Late Per…
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Inner coffin of Henutmehyt
The inner coffin of Henutmehyt is entirely covered in gold l…
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Mummy case and portrait of Artemidorus
The mummified body is enclosed in a red-painted stucco casin…
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Mummy of a child
This is one of the mummies discovered by Flinders Petrie in …
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Set of armour
This composite suit of Japanese armour brings together items…
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Coins deposited in the Court of Chancery, in the case 'Jones v. Lloyd'
These coins entered the English legal system as suitors' fun…
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Electrotype copy of gold 200 mohur of Shah Jahan
The largest Mughal gold coin ever made was a 1000 mohur of t…
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Gold octadrachm of Ptolemy II
Touch the animation button on the left for a translation of …
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Three gold coins
In the thirteenth century, for the first time in hundreds of…
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Treasure of the Salcombe Cannon Site
'The pot is similar to my breakfast bowl, practically every …
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The 'Ram in a Thicket'
This is one of an almost identical pair discovered by Leonar…
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Apollo on Mount Helicon, an enamel painted dish signed by Susanne de Court
This oval dish, is painted in enamel on copper with the stor…
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