List of Objects
Telling a history of our world through objects
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600 - 800
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The 'Uthman Quran (Othmanic Recension)
The Othmanic Recension is the standardised version of the Qur'an, believed by the vast majority of scholars & historians ...
Contributed by Individual
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The Sultanganj Buddha
Larger than life-size copper statue of the Buddha, found at Sultanganj, Bihar in India.
Contributed by Museum
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Wild Goat style jug
Pottery vessel or oinochoe decorated in 'Wild goat style'. The pot has been covered with cream slip and decorated in ...
Contributed by Museum
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Admonitions Scroll
Chinese scroll with advice for palace ladies on correct behaviour, a masterpiece of Chinese painting
Contributed by The British Museum
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Anglo Saxon glass beaker, Dry Drayton
Anglo Saxon cone-shaped drinking glass or beaker with trail decoration in pale blue and yellow.
Contributed by Museum
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Saxon Princess Pendant
A unique Anglo-Saxon gold pendant buried with a princess about 650 AD
Contributed by Museum
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Merovingian Frankish Gold Tremissis
This gold coin dates from between 580AD and 630AD. The Merovingian Dynasty was based in ancient Gaul (which is now ...
Contributed by Museum
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Chocolate cup
This small cup was made in the north of England in the 1780s. Chocolate originally comes from the Americas. It was ...
Contributed by Museum
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The Ripon Jewel
The ‘Ripon Jewel’, found close to the Cathedral in 1976, is a small gold roundel 29mm in diameter. The back is a plain ...
Contributed by Museum
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Maya maize god statue
Statue of a Maya maize god. Maize was the Maya's most important food and was worshipped as a god.
Contributed by The British Museum
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Metalwork - The Ardagh Chalice
The Ardagh Chalice is believed to date from the 8th Century and is one of the finest examples of Celtic metalwork ever ...
Contributed by Museum
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Pictish Sculpture - Knotwork Fragment
This 1200-1300 year old fragment of Pictish carving was found built into the relieving arch at the West End of Tarbat ...
Contributed by Museum
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Pictish Sculpture - The 'Dragon Stone'
In 1997, during archaeological investigation of the 17th century ‘barrel-vaulted’ Crypt of Tarbat Old Parish Church ...
Contributed by Museum
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Strathmartine Pictish Sculptured Stone
The Picts lived in Northern Britain, had their own distinct culture, and interacted with their contemporaries in Britain ...
Contributed by Museum
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Saxon Cosmetic Brush
This is the remains of a bronze cosmetic brush handle. It was found along with other objects in grave 41 in the Saxon ...
Contributed by Museum
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Statue of Tara
The female Buddhist deity Tara from Sri Lanka, represents mercy and compassion and is a focus for meditation
Contributed by The British Museum
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Chinese Tang tomb figures
Ceramic figures from the burial of a Chinese Tang general, made to entertain, serve and protect him in the afterlife
Contributed by The British Museum
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Small pot
Borys Malkin, the anthropologist, used our family home as a storage depot. This pot was part of his collection.
Contributed by Individual
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Saxon Burial Treasure
These are part of a collection of Saxon grave goods found in a village near Evesham, dating from between the 6th and 7th ...
Contributed by Museum
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Merovingian coin pendant
This is a Merovingian Frankish gold coin,type Belfort 2465-7, minted in Marseilles during the reign of Chlotar ll who ...
Contributed by Museum
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Sutton Hoo helmet
Helmet found in the grave of an Anglo-Saxon warrior king. It is one of the most iconic Anglo-Saxon finds
Contributed by The British Museum
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Reliquary - St Judicael King of Brittany
For clarification this is an object I own; It is a treasured family heirloom - R W Traves Parkinson. St Judicael was an ...
Contributed by Individual
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Gold coin of Abd al-Malik
Early Islamic coin, one of the first to show text from the Qur'an rather than use an image of the ruler
Contributed by The British Museum
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Namestone
This namestone is the Anglo-Saxon equivalent of a gravestone or other memorial to the dead. Although they contain ...
Contributed by Museum
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Beaver tooth pendant
This beaver tooth pendant was excavated from an Anglo Saxon adolescent’s grave in Watchfield, Oxfordshire. It is held ...
Contributed by Museum
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Anglo-Saxon Balance set
This beautiful copper alloy scales set was found in an Anglo Saxon grave of a young man who died around AD 520 – 70, and ...
Contributed by Museum
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ROMAN FLOOR TILE WITH HAND PRINT
This large floor tile from Brading Roman Villa, Isle of Wight, is of a type called a sesquipedalis commonly used on ...
Contributed by Museum
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saxon bronze strapend
found in a suffolk field, was once maybe hanging from a belt.
Contributed by Individual
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Bronze book hasp
Bronze book hasp found at little Dunagoil, Bute. Little Dunagoil was occupied from the Bronze Age through to Medieval ...
Contributed by Individual
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Glass Cosmetics Flask from The Levant
This cosmetic flask is typical of the Levant and could have come from any of the regions modern countries, such as ...
Contributed by Museum
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A 4cm high figurine
During the 2nd world war my father was posted to India as amember of the RAMC. He brought this figurine back with him at ...
Contributed by Individual
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Part of Anglo-Saxon frieze
Deeply carved stone frieze of 2 birds in a vine with tendrils ending in berry bunches. The vine was a symbol of Christ.
Contributed by Museum
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Piece of Roman Pot
A clay Roman pot, made in the Roman province of Gall, France and brought over to Britain. It was found in Weymouth, ...
Contributed by Individual
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Lead
Mrs Butcher brought this object to the ´óÏó´«Ã½ Suffolk event at Ipswich Museum on Tuesday, 16 February, 2010.
Mrs ...
Contributed by Individual
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York Helmet
A beautifully crafted and exquisitely decorated iron and brass helmet from Anglo-Saxon York and the most complete known.
Contributed by Museum
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Personal seal matrix of Queen Balthild
Personal gold seal-ring of Frankish Queen Balthild, showing her face on one side and an erotic scene on the other.
Contributed by Museum
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Anglo Saxon Pin Brooch
This brooch shows us that the area around Church Leigh near Tean was occupied in Anglo Saxon times. It shows us that ...
Contributed by Individual