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Anglo-Saxon bronze bucket from Hexham
The drawing shows details of a bronze bucket found in a churchyard at Hexham in 1832. It contained about eight thousand coins of English Saxon kings (of Bernicia and Northumbria) from the sixth to the ninth centuries. The details include a triangular mount with interlace ornament, and the handle and the human figure mounted on it.
Creator
- Adamson, John
- Basire, James
- British Museum
Subject
- Drawings
- Metalwork
- archaeology
- Goldwork
- Drawing
- Archaeology
Creator
- Adamson, John
- Basire, James
- British Museum
Subject
- Drawings
- Metalwork
- archaeology
- Goldwork
- Drawing
- Archaeology
Providing institution
Aggregator
Intermediate provider
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Rights
- Adamson, John|Basire, James|British Museum
Temporal
- 9th century AD
- Anglo-Saxon
Places
- British Museum
- England
- Europe
- Hexham
- Northumberland
- United Kingdom
- England
- United Kingdom
- Hexham
- Northumberland
Provenance
- Society of Antiquaries of London Catalogue of Drawings and Museum Objects: Primeval Antiquities
Source
- Archaeology Data Sevice
Identifier
- society_albums/primeval_antiquities/pa45-4
Is part of
- http://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/view/SoA_images/index.cfm?CFID=9579&CFTOKEN=BF7E76A0-D723-4BB2-9AC4B2BE9A527C12
References
- British Museum, A Guide to the Anglo-Saxon and Foreign Teutonic Antiquities in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities (London, 1923), pp. 104-5. Illustration (Engraving), fig. 127, p. 105.|John Adamson, 'An Account of the Discovery at Hexham, in the County of Northumberland, of a Brass Vessel Containing a Number of the Anglo-Saxon Coins Called Stycas', Archaeologia 25 (1834): 279-310. Illustration (Engraving), pl. XXXIV, between pp. 282 and 283.
Providing country
- United Kingdom
Collection name
First time published on Europeana
- 2020-10-26T02:53:22.909Z
Last time updated from providing institution
- 2022-07-23T22:20:57.607Z