Art

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The Bayeux Tapestry

"Here Harold sailed by sea and with sails filled with wind came to the land of Count Wido"

Bayeux Tapestry

The Fuller Brooch

"The Fuller Brooch reflects the intellectual and technical sophistication of Anglo-Saxon taste and craftsmanship in the later ninth century."

Wilson, D.M. and Blunt, C.E. 1961, The Trewhiddle Hoard, ‘Archaeologia’ 98, 75-122

Franks Casket

"Almost everything about this perplexing and ostentatiously erudite object is enigmatic, including its history."

Webster & Backhouse, 1991

St. Cuthbert Gospel

"The St Cuthbert Gospel... is the oldest intact European book"

The British Library

Reliquary Cross

"The cross is one of the rare surviving pieces which give substance to descriptions in contemporary documentary sources of the sumptuous church furnishings of pre-conquest England."

Victoria and Albert Museum