6th Century Gallery

Pottery cremation urn, from a grave at Loveden Hill, Lincolnshire, Anglo-Saxon, 6th-7th century

Pottery cremation urn, from a cremation grave in a cemetery at Loveden Hill, Lincolnshire, Anglo-Saxon, 6th-7th century. The urn is decorated with deeply incised chevrons which are filled with horizontally set impressions of a stamp, producing four circular depressions perhaps made with a fragment of a bone comb. Currently in the British Museum

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Openwork Belt Fitting with Serpent Design, Frankish, 500-700. Creator: Unknown

Openwork Belt Fitting with Serpent Design, Frankish, 500-700

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Chariot Mount with Three Figures, Late Roman or Byzantine, 300-500. Creator: Unknown

Chariot Mount with Three Figures, Late Roman or Byzantine, 300-500. Probably two orators and a grammarian

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