Британский музей Лондона

4.4 Department of Prehistoric Antiquities and Roman Monuments Britain

Covers the period from the creation of primitive tools to the era of Roman rule in Britain (5th–1st centuries BC): Bronze vessels (5th–4th centuries BC), Double-horned helmet (1st century), Bronze mirror from Desborough (1st century), Bronze shield (1st century), a unique Silver Treasure from Mildenhall (4th century), consisting of 34 items, military armor, etc. The collection of English antiquities could be bluntly described as poor, and it is only in the last decade that attention has been paid to it.

4.5 Department of Medieval and Modern Monuments

you to works of decorative and applied art from early Christianity to the 19th century. Treasures from Sutton Hoo (England), where the wooden funeral boat of a 7th century Anglo-Saxon king was found, introduces gold jewelry, weapons, silver vessels, horn cups, a stone scepter topped with a stag figure, and much more. The rock crystal gem Crystal of Lothair (mid-9th century), an example of the art of in-depth carving, was executed by order of the Frankish king Lothair (954–986). Another example of the art of pagan Saxon tribes - Vase Eden Castle (late 5th - early 6th century). Collection of early Christian monuments: Golden cup of the French and English kings (c. 1380), Chess pieces with o. Lewis (12th century) made of walrus ivory, Esquiline treasure (4th century) of silver items (a large wedding chest gilded on the inside, jugs, dishes, brooches, horse harness decorations), medieval weapons and knightly armor, church utensils (Reliquary of St. Eustace (c.1210), Reliquary of Thorn (15th century), etc.). The collection of ceramics and glass is, first of all, a collection of vases by Wedgwood (late 18th century - early 19th century). Another section is the world's largest collection of clocks: a castle clock from Strasbourg (1589), a clock in the form of a ship from Prague (1580), a series of gilded table clocks (16th–19th centuries), pocket, mantel, wall and other clocks. The collections of medieval antiquities are nothing special, inferior to the collection of the Kensington Museum.