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The Pentney Hoard is an Anglo-Saxon jewellery hoard, discovered by a gravedigger in a Pentney, Norfolk churchyard in 1978.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 24 relations: Anglo-Saxon art, Anglo-Saxon brooches, Anglo-Saxons, British Museum, Brooch, Cornwall, East Anglia, England, Leslie Webster (art historian), List of hoards in Great Britain, Mary Magdalene, Niello, Norfolk, Norwich Castle, Penrith Hoard, Pentney, Quincunx, Strickland Brooch, The Crown, Treasure trove, Trewhiddle, Trewhiddle style, Vikings, Zoomorphism.

  2. 9th-century artifacts
  3. Brooches
  4. Hoards from Anglo-Saxon Britain

Anglo-Saxon art

Anglo-Saxon art covers art produced within the Anglo-Saxon period of English history, beginning with the Migration period style that the Anglo-Saxons brought with them from the continent in the 5th century, and ending in 1066 with the Norman Conquest of England, whose sophisticated art was influential in much of northern Europe.

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Anglo-Saxon brooches

Anglo-Saxon brooches are a large group of decorative brooches found in England from the fifth to the eleventh centuries. Pentney Hoard and Anglo-Saxon brooches are Anglo-Saxon art, archaeological artifacts and brooches.

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Anglo-Saxons

The Anglo-Saxons, the English or Saxons of Britain, were a cultural group who spoke Old English and inhabited much of what is now England and south-eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages.

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British Museum

The British Museum is a public museum dedicated to human history, art and culture located in the Bloomsbury area of London.

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Brooch

A brooch (also) is a decorative jewellery item designed to be attached to garments, often to fasten them together. Pentney Hoard and brooch are brooches.

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Cornwall

Cornwall (Kernow;; or) is a ceremonial county in South West England.

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East Anglia

East Anglia is an area in the East of England.

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Leslie Webster (art historian)

Leslie Elizabeth Webster, (born 8 November 1943) is an English retired museum curator and art historian of Anglo-Saxon and Viking art.

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List of hoards in Great Britain

The list of hoards in Britain comprises significant archaeological hoards of coins, jewellery, precious and scrap metal objects and other valuable items discovered in Great Britain (England, Scotland and Wales).

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Mary Magdalene

Mary Magdalene (sometimes called Mary of Magdala, or simply the Magdalene or the Madeleine) was a woman who, according to the four canonical gospels, traveled with Jesus as one of his followers and was a witness to his crucifixion and resurrection.

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Niello

Niello is a black mixture, usually of sulphur, copper, silver, and lead, used as an inlay on engraved or etched metal, especially silver.

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Norfolk

Norfolk is a ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia.

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Norwich Castle

Norwich Castle is a medieval royal fortification in the city of Norwich, in the English county of Norfolk.

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Penrith Hoard

The Penrith Hoard is a dispersed hoard of 10th century silver penannular brooches found at Flusco Pike, Newbiggin Moor, near Penrith in Cumbria, and now in the British Museum in London. Pentney Hoard and Penrith Hoard are brooches, medieval European objects in the British Museum and treasure troves in England.

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Pentney

Pentney is a village and civil parish in the English county of Norfolk, located about south east of King's Lynn placing it about halfway between King's Lynn and Swaffham on the A47 road.

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Quincunx

A quincunx is a geometric pattern consisting of five points arranged in a cross, with four of them forming a square or rectangle and a fifth at its center.

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Strickland Brooch

The Strickland Brooch is an Anglo-Saxon silver and niello disc brooch dated to the mid 9th century, now in the British Museum. Pentney Hoard and Strickland Brooch are 9th-century artifacts, Anglo-Saxon art, medieval European metalwork objects and medieval European objects in the British Museum.

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The Crown

The Crown broadly represents the state in all its aspects within the jurisprudence of the Commonwealth realms and their subdivisions (such as the Crown Dependencies, overseas territories, provinces, or states).

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Treasure trove

A treasure trove is an amount of money or coin, gold, silver, plate, or bullion found hidden underground or in places such as cellars or attics, where the treasure seems old enough for it to be presumed that the true owner is dead and the heirs undiscoverable.

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Trewhiddle

Trewhiddle is a small settlement in south Cornwall, England, United Kingdom.

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Trewhiddle style

Trewhiddle style is a distinctive style in Anglo-Saxon art that takes its name from the Trewhiddle Hoard, discovered in Trewhiddle, Cornwall in 1770. Pentney Hoard and Trewhiddle style are Anglo-Saxon art.

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Vikings

Vikings were seafaring people originally from Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway, and Sweden), who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded, and settled throughout parts of Europe.

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Zoomorphism

The word zoomorphism derives from and.

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See also

9th-century artifacts

Brooches

Hoards from Anglo-Saxon Britain

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentney_Hoard