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•  Bayeux Tapestry

  The Bayeux Tapestry is a 0.5 by 70 metres (1.6 by 230 ft) long embroidered cloth — not an actual tapestry — which depicts the events leading up to the Norman conquest of England as well as the events of the invasion itself. The Bayeux Tapestry is annotated in Latin. It is exhibited in a special museum in Bayeux, Normandy, with a Victorian era-replica in Reading, Berkshire.

  

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•  Sutton Hoo

  Sutton Hoo near Woodbridge, Suffolk, England, is the site of two Anglo-Saxon cemeteries of the 6th century and early 7th century, one of which contained an undisturbed ship burial including a wealth of artifacts of outstanding art-historical and archaeological significance. Sutton Hoo is of a primary importance to early medieval historians because it sheds light on a period of English history which is on the margin between myth, legend and historical documentation.

  

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•  Fuller brooch

  The Fuller Brooch is a piece of late 9th century Anglo-Saxon art, found in Normandy France. It is a large disc made of hammered sheet silver inlaid with black niello and with a diameter of 11.4 cm. Its centre roundel is decorated with personifications of the five senses. In the centre is Sight with large staring oval eyes, surrounded by the other four senses, each in his own compartment. Taste has a hand in his mouth. Smell's hands are behind his back, and he stands between two tall plants.

  

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•  List of Hiberno-Saxon illustrated manuscripts

  Hiberno-Saxon manuscripts are those manuscripts made in the British Isles from about 500 CE to about 900 CE in England, but later in Ireland and elsewhere, or those manuscripts made on the continent in scriptoria founded by Irish or Anglo-Saxon missionaries and which are stylistically similar to the manuscripts produced in the British Isles.

  

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•  Alfred Jewel

  The Alfred Jewel is an Anglo-Saxon ornament dating from the late 9th century, first discovered in 1693. The Alfred Jewel was made in the reign of King Alfred the Great and is inscribed "AELFRED MEC HEHT GEWYRCAN", meaning "Alfred ordered me made". It is about 2½ inches (6.1 cm) long, made of filigreed gold, enclosing a highly polished piece of quartz crystal beneath which is set a cloisonné enamel plaque, with an image of a man, perhaps Christ, with ecclesiastical symbols.

  

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•  Caedmon manuscript

  

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•  Gospel Book (British Library Add. MS. 40618)

  British Library, Add. MS 40618 is a late 8th century illuminated Irish Gospel Book with 10th century Anglo-Saxon additions. The manuscript contains a portion of the Gospel of Matthew, the majority of the Gospel of Mark and the entirety of the Gospels of Luke and John. There are three surviving Evangelist portraits, one original and two 10th century replacements, along with 10th century decorated initials. The manuscript has 66 surviving vellum folios. The pages are 130 by 105 mm.

  

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•  Benedictional of St. Æthelwold

  The Benedictional of St. Æthelwold (London, British Library, Additional MS 49598) is a 10th century illuminated benedictional, the most important surviving work of the Anglo-Saxon Winchester School of illumination. It contains the various pontifical blessings used during Mass on the differing days of the ecclesiastical year along with a form for blessing the candles used during the Feast of the Purification.

  

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•  Anglo-Saxon art

  Anglo-Saxon art covers art produced within the Anglo-Saxon period of English history, particularly from the time of King Alfred (871-899), when there was a revival of English culture after the end of the Viking invasions, to the Norman Conquest in 1066, when the move to the Romanesque style becomes complete.

  

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•  Ruthwell Cross

  The Ruthwell Cross is a stone Anglo-Saxon cross probably dating to the 8th century, when Ruthwell was part of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria; it is now in Scotland. Anglo-Saxon crosses are closely related to the contemporary Irish high crosses, and both are part of the Insular art tradition.

  

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•  Erling Skjalgsson

  Erling Skjalgsson (died 1028), was a Norwegian political leader of the late 10th and early 11th century. Traditionally, he is seen as this period's foremost defender of the traditional Norwegian social system. Erling fought for the traditional small, autonomous kingdoms and the þing system, against the reformists of the Fairhair family line. Erling was established as a political front figure by the farmers of Gulaþing in 996.

  

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•  Near Earth Object Surveillance Satellite

  The Near Earth Object Surveillance Satellite (NEOSSat) is a Canadian microsatellite using a 15-cm aperture f5.88 Maksutov telescope similar to that on the MOST spacecraft, 3-axis stabilized with pointing stability of ~2 arcseconds in a ~100 second exposure. It will search for interior-to-Earth-orbit (IEO) asteroids.

  

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•  Peter Dean (actor)

  

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•  Courdemanche, Eur

  

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•  Chap Stique

  

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