Catalogue of Visigothic artefacts from Spain and Southern France in the British Museum

Project leader: Barry Ager

Department: Prehistory and Europe

Project start: June 2005
End date: 2007

Other British Museum staff: Staff of Departments Conservation and Scientific Research, Photography and Imaging

Other departments: Conservation and Scientific Research, Photography and Imaging

Description:

The catalogue will comprise around 70 objects including mainly jewellery and costume accessories, together with several horse-harness fittings, liturgical vessels, an inscribed ceramic tile and a grave-slab also bearing an inscription.

Objectives:

This project aims to produce an E-publication catalogue and will result in the enhancement of existing Merlin (the Museum’s collections database) records. It will provide information derived from laboratory analysis, while presenting full digital image coverage (which is at present only 8%), together with gallery talks and other public lectures, conference papers and published articles on select pieces.

Image: Visigothic buckle inlaid with glass. From Spain, 6th century AD.