London, British Museum: Sutton Hoo Treasure


Large Hanging Bowl: bronze

    
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Details of the escutcheons: enamel and millefiori glass



Fish Bowl with fish inside

References:
Evans, A.C. 'The Bronze Cauldrons,' in The Sutton Hoo Ship Burial, ed. R. Bruce-Mitford, 3, London, 1983, 480-510
Brenan, J.  Hanging Bowls and their Contexts.  An Archaeological Survey of their Socio-Economic Significance from the Fifth to Seventh Centuries AD, (British Archaeological Reports, British Series 220), Oxford, 1991



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February 13, 1998