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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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Tripod Polychrome Bowl Depicting a Serpent with Feathers, A.D. 500/750. Creator: Unknown

Tripod Polychrome Bowl Depicting a Serpent with Feathers, A.D. 500/750. Classic Veracruz, Los Tuxtlas, Veracruz, Mexico

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Woman Standing Over a Well, Northern Wei Dynasty (386-535)

Woman Standing Over a Well, Northern Wei Dynasty (386-535), early 6th century; with later restorations

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