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The Sutton Hoo Ship-Burial. III. The Large Hanging-Bowl*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Extract

The largest of the hanging-bowls from Sutton Hoo is distinguished by the abundance and the brilliance of the mosaic glass adorning its mounts, and by the mannered drawing of its delicate Celtic scroll-patterns. The character of the mosaic glass links this bowl very closely with the newly discovered bowl from Scunthorpe, Lincs., and, but less closely, with the bowl from Barlaston, Staffs., and the bowl represented by the Northumberland escutcheons in the British Museum. Only the Scunthorpe bowl, however, bears mosaic of comparable elegance, and it is also much closer to the Sutton Hoo bowl in its ornamental style. This Celtic style has been studied by Mr Leeds' and Franqoise Henry,2 and, therefore, to Sutton Hoo and Scunthorpe we can add as further representatives of the same school of design the wellknown Faversham mount^,^ the escutcheon from Barrington, Cambridge, the enamelled bronze vessel from Needham Market, Suffolk, and the escutcheon from Benniworth, Lincs.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1940

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References

1 Celtic Ornament. Oxford, 1933.

2 Journ. R. Soc. Ant. Ireland, 1936, LXVI, pp. 225 ff.

3 Leeds, fig. 39 a and b.

4 Françoise Henry includes the bowl from Capheaton, Northumberland. The British Museum escutcheons from the same county are stylistically only distant relatives.

5 Antiquaries Journal, 1936, XVI, p. 98.

6 Kendrick, Anglo-Saxon Art. London, 1938. p. 54.

7 Leeds, p. 142 ; Kendrick, p. 39.

8 Leeds, fig. 36.