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Sutton Hoo
Related highlight objects
A portrait medallion of Carl Linnaeus, by Josiah Wedgwood I and Thomas Bentley
A wooden writing-tablet
Alabaster panel showing the signs of the Last Judgement
Alabaster panel with a scene of the Martyrdom of St Thomas Becket
Altar
Altar cross
Altar to 'Fortune the Home-Bringer, to Aesculapius and to Salus'
Altar to Neptune
Amuletic figure
Anti-slavery medallion, by Josiah Wedgwood
Antler comb with matching case
Antler weaving comb
Apollo on Mount Helicon, an enamel painted dish signed by Susanne de Court
Applied brooch
Archer's bracer
Asante Ewer
Ascia a mano di pietra
Astrolabe quadrant
Astrolabe quadrant from Canterbury
Astrolabe with Hebrew inscription
Astrolabio Sloane
Astronomical compendium
Astronomical compendium
Astronomical longcase clock by Edward Cockey
Astronomical table clock by Henry Jenkins
Automated clock in the form of a 'nef', or galleon, by Hans Schlottheim
Axes from the Stone, Bronze and Iron Ages
Bacon Cup
Badge of a Grand President of the Anti-Gallican Society
Barbed bone spear point
Basse-Yutz flagons
Beaver tooth pendant
Belluno grave group
Belt buckle
Bevel-based spear tips
Bird bone engraved with animal heads
Blue glass jar
Blue glass sugar bowl
Boars' tusk pendant
Bone disc decorated with horses
Bone disc pendant
Bone flutes
Bone needle
Bone needles
Bone pendant decorated with an engraved drawing of a wolverine
Bone pin
Bow porcelain bowl, painted by Thomas Craft
Bowl from the Carthage Treasure
Bracelets from the Hoxne hoard
Brandon plaque
Brass dish
Brass hanging lamp with a griffin-head handle
Brass of John Langston
Brass torc
Bréban grave group
Bridle-bit from the Polden Hill hoard
Bronze aquamanile
Bronze armour fittings
Bronze boars from the Hounslow Hoard
Bronze bowl
Bronze bowl
Bronze cart fitting
Bronze cauldron
Bronze censer-cover
Bronze figurine of a gladiator
Bronze figurine of a Moorish cavalryman
Bronze figurine of Aesculapius
Bronze flesh-hook
Bronze handle in the shape of a bird
Bronze head from a statue of the Emperor Hadrian
Bronze head of the Emperor Claudius
Bronze helmet
Bronze knife-handle in the form of a charioteer
Bronze military diploma
Bronze model of a horse's head
Bronze model of a human head
Bronze oil flask
Bronze pan
Bronze pan made by Boduogenus
Bronze portrait bust of Sir Joseph Banks by Anne Seymour Damer
Bronze seal-die of Inchaffray Abbey
Bronze shield
Bronze shield boss
Bronze shrine figure
Bronze spoon
Bronze spoons
Bronze statuette of a ploughman with a team of oxen
Bronze statuette of Mars
Bronze statuette of Mars
Bronze statuette of Nero
Bronze steelyard (statera) with lead weights
Bronze steelyard weight
Bronze tripod with three nude female figures by Pierino da Vinci (about 1531-54)
Brooch in the Urnes style
Buckle
Buckle from the sword belt from the ship-burial at Sutton Hoo
Building-stone
Burial urn
Caneware figure of Voltaire, made by Josiah Wedgwood I and Thomas Bentley
Capodimonte porcelain ewer and basin, made by Giuseppe Gricci
Carillon clock with automata, by Isaac Habrecht
Carriage clock by Breguet et Fils
Carriage clock by Nicole Nielsen & Co.
Carved agate bowl
Carved and engraved rock-crystal standing cup (tazza)
Carved bone casket with Romance scenes
Carved bone hairpin
Carved ivory bust of Sir Isaac Newton by David Le Marchand
Carved ivory leaf from a diptych
Carved stone capital
Carved stone capital
Cassiobury Park turret clock
Cast gilt bronze pax
Castellated dial clock
Cavalry combat helmet
Cavalry helmet
Cavalry sports helmet
Ceremonial bronze dirk
Chatelaine plate
Chelsea porcelain 'Cleopatra' vases
Chertsey Shield
Chertsey tiles: Richard and Saladin
Child's shoe
Chromium-plated Normandie pitcher, designed by Peter Müller-Munk
Citole
Claw beaker
Claw beaker
Clock-watch with calendar and alarm by Jean Vallier
Cloisonné belt-buckle
Clovis point spear tip
Coin-set pendant
Colour-coated pot
Cooking pots
Copies of the Basse-Yutz flagons
Copper alloy and silver buckle and belt plate
Copper alloy girdle-hanger
Copper-alloy censer
Copper-alloy disc brooch
Copper-alloy tweezers
Cordoba Treasure
Cosmetic grinder
Covered glass goblet
Covered glass humpen
Creamware plate decorated with a scene from Aesop's Fables
Crozier head
Crucifix
Crucifixion figure of the dead Christ
Cruciform brooch with animal foot
Cup and cover, designed by William Burges
Cup from the Water Newton treasure
Death mask of George Bernard Shaw
Decorated bone pin
Decorated bronze mirror
Decorated bronze mirror
Decorated bronze mirror
Decorated horse jaw
Dedicatory plaque
Delftware jug
Delftware punch bowl with a portrait of Prince Charles Edward Stuart, the Young Pretender
Diptych Dial
Disc-headed pin
Disc-on-bow brooch
Disc-on-bow brooch
Double dial cylinder watch with equation of time and calendar dials by David Pons
Double-edged sword
Dr Dee's magic
Dr Dee's mirror
Dr Woodward's shield
Dragonesque brooch
Drinking glass by Felix Foster
Drinking glass with election inscription
Earthenware double-spouted vessel, by Christopher Dresser
Earthenware vase decorated with gold lustre, by Walter Crane
'Eggshell' porcelain teapot, made by the Rozenburg Factory
Electroplate teapot, designed by Christopher Dresser and made by James Dixon and Sons
Electrum torc from Snettisham (Hoard G)
Element of a necklace
Eliel Saarinen, a tea or coffee urn
Elmo dalla nave funeraria di Sutton Hoo
'Empress' pepper pot from the Hoxne hoard
Enamel casket
Enamel portrait plaques of King George III and Queen Charlotte, painted by William Hopkins Craft
Enamel snuff box and cover, painted with the seated figure of John Wilkes
Enamelled bronze pan
Enamelled glass mosque lamp, by Philippe Joseph Brocard
Enamelled gold locket, by Henri Toutin
Enamelled gold pendant after Raphael
Enamelled measuring glass (passglas)
English Delftware dish, with a scene of a merchant ship
Engraved gem from the Thetford treasure
Engraved glass (roemer)
Engraved glass ewer by the Cristalleries de Baccarat
Engraved glass goblet
Engraved rib
Experimental table clock by Thomas Mudge
Experimental watch by Ferdinand Berthoud
Fiaschi da Basse-Yutz
Finds from a Late Iron Age cremation burial
Finger-ring set with the Lord's Prayer
Fishhooks
Five silver spoons
Flanged silver bowl and cover from the Mildenhall treasure
Flanged silver bowl from the Mildenhall treasure
Flint burins
Flint scraper
Floor tile
Fluted silver bowl from the Mildenhall treasure
Four glass claw beakers
Fragment from a gold decorated torc
Fragment of a cornelian breccia cameo, 'The Head of Flora', carved by Benedetto Pistrucci
Fragment of a tubular torc from Snettisham
Fragment of an ivory panel showing the Baptism of Christ
Fragments of a glass bowl with biblical scenes
Fragments of painted plaster
Frankenthal porcelain group of figures within a pagoda, modelled by Karl Gottleib Lück
Front of an enamelled altar cross
Frontispiece from Revd James Douglas, Nenia Britannica, a book
Front-plate and chape from a dagger sheath
Funerary badge of the Black Prince
Garter Insignia of the Earl of Northampton
Gemellion
Georg Schweigger, The Birth and Naming of John the Baptist, a honestone relief
Gilded brass astrolabe, made by Humphrey Cole
Gilded bronze stirrup
Gilded copper statuette of Hercules
Gilded glass goblet
Gilded silver brooch
Gilded silver brooch
Gilded silver spoons from the Hoxne hoard
Gilded spoons from the Thetford treasure
Gilt bronze strap-end
Gilt-brass cased clock-watch with alarm, by Hans Schniep
Girdle prayer book
Gladiator figurine of bone or ivory
Gladiator's helmet
Glass beaker
Glass beaker with chariot-racing scene
Glass 'betrothal' goblet
Glass bowl and flagon
Glass coffee percolator, designed by Gerhard Marcks
Glass cone beaker
Glass drinking-horn
Glass 'Felix' bottle
Glass flask with a portrait of Henry VII, King of England
Glass gaming counters
Glass goblet
Glass goblet, engraved by Frans Greenwood
Glass jug
Glass tankard with silver-gilt mounts
Glass tazza
Glass tazza, by James Powell & Sons
Glass vase, designed by Chris Lebeau
Gold acorn cup
Gold and enamel cased watch by David Bouquet
Gold and enamel earrings
Gold and enamel pendant brooch made by the jewellers Phillips Brothers
Gold and enamel pendant reliquary
Gold and enamel reliquary cross
Gold and enamelled mourning ring
Gold arm-ring
Gold belt buckle
Gold belt buckle from the ship-burial at Sutton Hoo
Gold belt buckle, by the Maison Boucheron
Gold body-chain from the Hoxne hoard
Gold bracelet made by Giacinto Melillo
Gold bracteate
Gold bracteate
Gold breast chain
Gold brooch hoop
Gold brooches from the Winchester hoard
Gold buckle from the Thetford treasure
Gold cased watch with lever escapement by Josiah Emery
Gold chatelaine and quarter-repeating watch
Gold disc brooch
Gold disc pendant
Gold disc pendant
Gold earring
Gold fibula (brooch)
Gold hair ornament or brooch
Gold jewellery from the Hoxne hoard
Gold 'lion-hunt' plaque
Gold locket decorated with cloisonné enamel made by Alexis Falize
Gold medallion with the Adoration of the Magi
Gold mourning ring with a painted eye
Gold necklace designed and made by Eugène Fontenay
Gold necklace set with the heads of hummingbirds
Gold necklace with painted enamel scenes
Gold pendant
Gold pendant (kolt)
Gold pendant set with emeralds and diamonds
Gold 'posy' ring
Gold ring
Gold ring inscribed with the names Dromacius and Betta
Gold rings from the Thetford treasure
Gold torc
Gold torc
Gold torc from the Snettisham hoard L
Gold torcs from the Ipswich Hoard
Gold torcs from the Winchester hoard
Gold, silver and diamond tiara, made by Hunt & Roskell
Gold-glass medallion
Gold-glass medallion showing Herakles
Gold-mounted hardstone box by Johann Christian Neuber
Gothic wall clock
Grave group from Artres
Grave group from Sutri
Grave-slab of Gundebebius
Great bascinet
Great Seal of England of King William IV, engraved by Benjamin Wyon
Great square-headed brooch
Green-glazed earthenware vase made by Théodore Deck
Gridiron
Group of bronze statuettes of Roman gods and goddesses
'Handpin'
Hanging bowl from the ship-burial at Sutton Hoo
Harpoon tips
Harvest jug
Hat badge
Head from a statue of Mercury
Headstall (bridle)
Helmet from the ship-burial at Sutton Hoo
Hessonite garnet intaglio set in a gold ring, engraved with the dog-star Sirius, by Johann Lorenz Natter
Hinged brass collar
Hoard F from Snettisham
Hoard from Ayton East Field
Hoard of Iceni silver coins
Hoard of silver drinking cups
Horned helmet
Horse bits from the chariot burial at Wetwang
Horse engraving on bone
Horse harness fittings
Horse harness from the Stanwick hoard
Hoxne handaxe
I pezzi degli scacchi di Lewis
Icon of St George ('The Black George')
Icon of St John the Baptist
Icon of St Peter
Icon of Triumph of Orthodoxy
Icon with four Church feasts
Il tesoro di Hoxne
Ippolito Rombaldoni, Virgin and Child, a maiolica plaque
Iron adze-hammer
Iron and silver buckle
Iron axe-hammer
Iron axe-head
Iron axe-head inlaid with silver
Iron cauldron hanger
Iron dagger and sheath
Iron farming tools
Iron hipposandal
Iron plough coulter
Iron spear with inlaid ornament
Iron spearhead with silver and copper decoration
Iron sword with bronze hilt fittings
Iron window grille
Ivory casket with scenes from the Romances
Ivory diptych with the Annunciation and the Crucifixion
Ivory figure beads
Ivory figure of St Margaret of Antioch
Ivory finger ring
Ivory mirror back with hawking scene
Ivory of the Virgin and Child
Ivory panel showing an archangel
Ivory panel with the Miracle of Cana
Ivory plaque depicting Christ in Majesty
Ivory plaque with Nativity scenes
Ivory plaque with the Adoration of the Magi
Ivory pyxis
Ivory pyxis with St Menas
Ivory pyxis with the Healing of the Demoniac
Ivory triptych with the arms of John de Grandisson, Bishop of Exeter
Iznik ewer, with English silver-gilt mounts
Jack-in-the-Pulpit Vase, by Louis Comfort Tiffany and Thomas Manderson
Jadeite axe-head
Jasper portrait plaque of Dr Joseph Priestley, made by Josiah Wedgwood I and Thomas Bentley
Jasper ware portrait plaque of Sir William Hamilton, by Josiah Wedgwood I and Thomas Bentley
Jasperware medallion of Captain James Cook, by Josiah Wedgwood and Thomas Bentley
Jet pendant
Jeweller's hoard from Snettisham
Jewellery from the Fishpool hoard
Jewellery from the Thetford treasure
Kingston Jug
Knives with sheath
La mantellina d’oro di Mold
Lamp with an engraved female figure
Lantern clock by William Bowyer
Large spoons (cigni) from the Thetford treasure
Largitio dish of the Emperor Licinius
'Latchet' dress fastener
Lead curse (defixio)
Lead pig (ingot)
Lead tank
Leaf-shaped point
Linchpins from the chariot burial at Wetwang
Lindow Man
Liturgical comb made of ivory
Long spoons (cochlearia) from the Thetford treasure
Longcase clock by Ahasuerus Fromanteel
Longcase precision regulator with equation of time indicator, made by George Graham
Longcase regulator by Thomas Earnshaw / Joseph Catherwood
Lovers' brooch
Lustre pottery dish, made by William De Morgan
Luxury imports
Lyngby axe
Lyre bridge and tuning peg
Magdeburg Panel
'Magical' glass bead
Mail collar
Maiolica dish
Maiolica dish by Giulio da Urbino
Maiolica plate
Maiolica plate with the arms of Pietro Bembo
Maiolica portrait dish
Maiolica salt cellar
Maiolica storage jar
Malling jug
Mantelpiece clock, by Charles Rennie Mackintosh
Marble figure of Anne Seymour Damer by Giuseppe Ceracchi
Marble full-length figure of William Shakespeare by Louis-François Roubiliac
Marble portrait bust of Philip Dormer Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield, by Joseph Wilton
Marble portrait bust of Richard Payne Knight by John Bacon the Younger
Marble sarcophagus carved with scenes from the story of Jonah and the whale
Marble statuette of Bacchus
Marble transenna with eagles and hares
Marianne Brandt, a silver tea-infuser
Marine chronometer no. 12 by John Arnold
Marine chronometer no. 2741 by Breguet et Fils
Massive brass armlet
Massive bronze armlets
Mazer and cover
Memorial ring commemorating Charles I
Micromosaic brooch with the Lamb of God, made by the firm of Castellani
Milestone
Miniature tabernacle, carved in boxwood
Miniature travelling clock by Thomas Tompion
Minute repeating clock watch by Thomas Mudge
Mirror from the chariot burial at Wetwang
Model of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Monumental brass of an unknown bishop
Mosaic from a Roman villa
Mosaic from a villa
Mosaic tiles from Byland Abbey
Mosaico di Cristo da Hinton St Mary
Musical chamber clock by Nicholas Vallin
Nocturnal and Tide Predictor, made by Humphrey Cole
Nomad bridle-bit
Notched bone
Observatory regulator, made by Thomas Tompion
Oculist's stamp
Openwork sword pommel
Orologio automatizzato a forma di galeone realizzato da Hans Schlottheim
Oval brooch
Oval brooch
Painted pebbles
Pair of 'button' brooches
Pair of dragonesque brooches
Pair of drinking horns
Pair of ivory and silver-gilt covered cups
Pair of linchpins
Pair of miniature gold buckles
Pair of 'Moon Flasks' decorated by Thomas Mellor for Minton & Co.
Pair of oval brooches
Pair of porcelain ice-pails
Pair of royal finger rings
Pair of saucer brooches
Pair of vases painted in the encaustic technique
Palm cup
Panel from an ivory casket: Christ carrying the Cross
Panel from an ivory casket: the Crucifixion of Christ
Panel from an ivory casket: the empty Sepulchre
Panel of embroidery
Panel paintings from the Palace of Westminster
Parian bust of Clytie
Part of a silk panel
Part of a wall painting from a Roman villa
Part of a wall painting from a Roman villa
'Parure', consisting of tiara, necklace, pendant, earrings and bracelet
Paten
Penannular brooch
Perforated baton with horse and fish engravings
Perforated baton with horse and symbol engravings
Perforated baton with low relief horse
Pewter candlestick, designed by J.M. Olbrich
Pewter charger with the arms of England
Phallic figurine
Pilgrim badge depicting St George and the dragon
Pilgrim sign of St Thomas Becket
Pin Hole Cave man
Plaquettes illustrating scenes from the life of Christ
Plated disc brooch
Pointed flint handaxe
Porcelain dessert plate
Porcelain dessert plate from the 'Kremlin Service' designed by Fedor Grigorievich Solntsev (1801-92)
Porcelain figure of King George III
Porcelain figure of Louis XV as a warrior
Porcelain flask
Porcelain gravy boat, designed by Henry van de Velde, made by Meissen
Porcelain group of Pygmalion and Galatea
Porcelain plate
Porcelain plate
Porcelain plate designed by Peter Behrens
Porcelain wine-cooler
Portable altar
Portrait plaque of Sir William Hamilton, by Josiah Wedgwood I and Thomas Bentley
Pottery cremation urn
Pottery cremation urn
Pottery face-urn
Pottery ink-well
Pottery jar
Pottery jar with a chariot-race
Pottery jars, dishes and bowls
Pottery mortarium
Pottery oil lamp
Pottery oil-lamp
Pottery urn
Presentation sword made for the Duke of Mecklenburg-Strelitz
Purse lid from the ship-burial at Sutton Hoo
Pyxis
Quarter repeating cylinder watch by John Leroux
Quern stone
Quern stone used for making flour
Red deer antler head-dress
Redware milk jug and cover, made by the Wedgwood factory
Rein rings from the chariot burial at Wetwang
Reins guide
Reliquario della Sacra Spina di Jean, duca di Berry
Reliquary of St Eustace
Reliquary pendant of the Holy Thorn
Repeat and calendar watch by Abraham Louis Breguet, no. 65
Replica of the Rudge Cup
Reproductions of the Gallehus Horns
Revolving signet ring
Ribchester hoard
Ring dial, made by Humphrey Cole
River Thames spearhead
Rock crystal buckle with a silver tongue
Rosary bead, carved in boxwood
Saintonge Jug
Samian ware bowl
Samian ware bowl
Samian ware pottery
Samian ware vase
Sandstone memorial slab carved with Ogam script
Sandstone shaft from a cross
Sarcophagus
Sceptre from the ship-burial at Sutton Hoo
Sculpture of a lion overpowering a ram
Seal-die of Godwin and Godgytha
Seal-die of Isabella of Hainault
Seal-die of Robert Fitzwalter
Seal-die of the Muscovy Company
Seated terracotta figurine
Seax of Beagnoth
Section of façade from a Roman building at Meonstoke
Section of the Sweet Track
Selection of blacksmith's tools
Set of 12 Delftware plates painted by Sir James Thornhill
Set of gaming pieces
Set of silver 'apostle' spoons
Sèvres porcelain plate showing the Temple of Contra Latopolis (modern Esna), painted by Jacques-François Swebach-Desfont
Sheela-na-Gig
Sherd of painted glass
Shield boss of Junius Dubitatus
Shield from the ship-burial at Sutton Hoo (reconstruction)
Shield of Parade
Ship's figurehead
Shoulder clasps from the ship-burial at Sutton Hoo
Shrine boss
Silver and enamel box, by Eugène Feuillâtre
Silver and gold buckle decorated with a fish
Silver arm and plaque from a small statue of Victory
Silver bow brooch
Silver bowl
Silver bowl from the Carthage Treasure
Silver bowl from the first Cyprus treasure
Silver bowls and spoons from the ship-burial at Sutton Hoo
Silver bracelet
Silver bracelet-1
Silver brooch
Silver cased chronometer with tourbillon and spring-detent escapement
Silver censer from the first Cyprus treasure
Silver chalice from the Kaper Koraon treasure
Silver disc brooch
Silver disc brooch of Ædwen
Silver dish with niello decoration from the Mildenhall treasure
Silver gilt and garnet brooch with a runic inscription
Silver gilt dress pin
Silver gilt mount from a sword scabbard
Silver hairpin with figure of Venus
Silver hairpin with hand
Silver handle from the Capheaton treasure
Silver ingot
Silver knife mount with runic inscription
Silver ladles from the Hoxne hoard
Silver ladles from the Mildenhall treasure
Silver pendant
Silver plaque and gold disc from the Water Newton treasure
Silver ring brooch
Silver spoon from the first Cyprus treasure
Silver spoons from the Mildenhall treasure
Silver statuette of Harpocrates
Silver tankard made by Tiffany & Co.
Silver 'thistle' brooch
Silver tigress from the Hoxne hoard
Silver torc from the Snettisham hoard L
Silver wrist-clasp
Silver-gilt casket
Silver-gilt chalice
Silver-gilt cup and cover, and a sideboard dish, by Paul de Lamerie
Silver-gilt ewer and basin
Silver-gilt ewer and basin by Pierre Harrache
Silver-gilt saucer brooch
Silver-gilt sword pommel
Silver-gilt tazza with a scene showing Vulcan's Forge
Six disc brooches from the Pentney hoard
Skull and crown of the 'Deal Warrior'
Snuff box
Spear thrower carved as a mammoth
Spinning and weaving tools
Split-based spear points
Spouted jug
Square silver dish
Square table clock with detachable alarm
Square-headed brooch
Squat glass jar
St Conall Cael's bell
St Cuileáin's bell shrine
Statue of a hunter-god, possibly Attis
Statue of a knight
Statuette of a mother-goddess
Steatite plaque with Crucifixion scene
Steel breastplate
Steelyard weight
Stone ball
Stone chopping tool
Stone chopping tools
Stone cleaver
Stone cross shaft
Stone female head
Stone handaxe
Stone handaxe
Stone plaque decorated with horses
Stoneware bottle and twenty brass moulds
Stoneware bust of Prince Rupert
Stoneware jug with pewter mounts, by Jan Emens Mennicken
Stoneware tankard with silver-gilt mounts
Stoneware tankard with the arms of the Englandfahrer trading company of Hamburg
Stove-tile with a figure of Rhetoric
Stove-tile with the arms of James I of England
Strap unions from the chariot burial at Wetwang
Sub-triangular handaxe
Swimming reindeer
Sword and scabbard end
Sword from the ship-burial at Sutton Hoo
Sword grip and pommel
Sword of Justice
Sword of State
Sword scabbard
Table clock attributed to Hans Buschmann
Table clock by Henry Jones
Table clock by Lucas Weydmann
Table Night Clock, made by Pietro Tommasi Campani
Tau cross head
Terracotta portrait bust of Oliver Cromwell by Louis-François Roubiliac
Terracotta portrait bust of Sir Hans Sloane by Michael Rysbrack
Terrets from the Polden Hill hoard
Terrets from the Westhall hoard
Testa in bronzo dell’Imperatore Claudio
The Aldrevandini Beaker
The Armada Service
The Aurelius Ursicinus spoons from the Hoxne hoard
The Backworth treasure
The Bank of England mosaic
The Barkway hoard
The Battersea cauldron
The Battersea Shield
The Borradaile oliphant
The Borradaile Triptych
The Bowleaze Cove jewel
The Branko belt
The British Museum Lion
The Burghead Bull
The Chaucer astrolabe
The Chiddingly Boar
The Clephane horn
The Corbridge Lanx
The Cuerdale hoard
The Desborough Necklace
The Domagnano treasure
The Dunstable Swan Jewel
The Felmingham Hall hoard
The Folkton drums
The Franks Casket
The Fulham sword
The Fuller Brooch
The Goodricke Cup
The Great Dish from the Mildenhall treasure
The Great Torc from Snettisham
The Gumedruta ring
The Halton Moor hoard
The Henry of Blois plaques
The Hexham Plaque
The Hinton St Mary Mosaic
The Holcombe Mirror
The Holy Thorn Reliquary of Jean, duc de Berry
The Hoxne Hoard
The Hurbuck hoard
The Juliana Bracelet from the Hoxne hoard
The Kells crozier
The King's Pavement
The Kirkburn Sword
The Lampsacus spoons
The Leadenhall Street Mosaic
The Lewis Chessmen
The Londesborough Brooch
The Lothar, or Susanna Crystal
The Lycurgus Cup
The Lyte Jewel
The Marlborough ice pails
The marriage of Alexander the Great and Roxanna, a chased gold plaque made by Ishmail Parbury
The Medici Valencian vase
The Mildenhall treasure
The Milton Keynes hoard
The Mold gold cape
The More Jewels
The Morvah Hoard
'The Mostyn', made by Thomas Tompion
The Muse Casket
The Noah Cameo
The Palmerston gold chocolate cups
The Pegasus Vase
The Phoenix Jewel
The Pitney Brooch
'The Polwarth' by Thomas Mudge
The Portland Font
The Projecta Casket
The Prunay Vase
The Punishment of Tityus, a rock crystal intaglio by Giovanni Bernardi
The Richard II Quadrant
The Rillaton gold cup
The Ringlemere gold cup
The Rose Ash Bowl
The Royal Gold Cup
The Salisbury Hoard
The Savernake Horn
The Seal Burse of Elizabeth I
The Sloane Astrolabe
The Snettisham Hoard
The Stockbridge urn
The Strickland Brooch
The Sutri drinking horn
The Tarves Hoard
The Thwaite cross
The Tring Tiles
The Twelve Sibyls enamel plaques by Léonard Limousin
The Vera Cruz altar set
The Wilton Cross
The Winchester hoard
The Witham Shield
The Zsujta Duck
Three bronze rattle pendants
Three carved stone balls
Three Chelsea porcelain scent bottles
Three tin-glazed earthenware chocolate cups
Tile antefix
Tile mosaic designed by A.W.N. Pugin
Tiles from the Alhambra
Tilman Riemenschneider, Adoration of the Magi, a limewood panel carving
Tin-glazed earthenware dish
Toggles from the Polden Hill hoard
Toilet implements from the Hoxne hoard
Tombstone of a soldier's daughter
Tombstone of a young boy, Marcus Cocceius Nonnus
Tombstone of Gaius Julius Alpinus Classicianus
Tombstone of Gaius Saufeius
Tombstone of Titus Valerius Pudens
Tombstone of Volusia Faustina
'Town and Country' dinnerware, designed by Eva Zeisel
Traces of clothing
Transverse strainer-spoons from the Hoxne hoard
Trefoil brooch
Triple pin set
Two Assyrian-style figures
Two embossed gold armlets
Two iron pilum heads
Two silver gilt disc brooches
Two silver platters from the Mildenhall treasure
Two steelyard weights
Uomo di Lindow
Veniamin Pavlovich Belkin, porcelain plate
Venus and Adonis, attributed to Francesco Fanelli
Venus and Mars in Vulcan's net, an onyx cameo by Domenico Calabresi
Watch by Louis Oury
Watch fitted with sundial and compass, by Coenrad Jacobs
Watch with seconds dial by Thomas Tompion
Wax death mask of Oliver Cromwell
Wax model of the Laocoon
'Weed-holder' or vase, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright
Whalebone plaque
Wheels from the chariot burial at Wetwang
William Hogarth's gold admission ticket to Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens
Wine glass with a silver groat in the stem
Women's and girls' jewellery
Wooden panel from a cassone (marriage chest)
Wooden writing-tablet
Worcester porcelain saucer printed with a figure of Frederick II of Prussia
Writing-tablet with a letter from Niger and Brocchus to Flavius Cerialis
Writing-tablet with a letter from Severus to Candidus
Writing-tablet with a letter from the entrepreneur Octavius to Candidus
Writing-tablet with a letter inviting Sulpicia Lepidina, the commander's wife, to a birthday party
Writing-tablet with a letter of appeal
Writing-tablet with a line from Virgil
Writing-tablet with account of money received
Writing-tablet with an intelligence report
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