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Huxley Hoard
The Huxley Hoard is a hoard of Viking jewellery from around 900-910 found buried near Huxley, Cheshire, Huxley, Cheshire, England. It consists of 21 silver bracelets, one silver ingot, and 39 lead fragments, weighing around in total. The bracelets might have been produced by Norse activity in the British Isles, Norse settlers in Dublin and possibly buried for safekeeping by Viking refugees settling in Cheshire and the Wirral Peninsula, Wirral in the early 900's. It was discovered by Steve Reynoldson in November 2004 after he found fragments of lead underground using a metal detector. The bracelets were folded flat, sixteen decorated by Punch (tool), punched patterns, six with crosses stamped in their centre, and another six with centre cross and one at each end. Two have lattice patterns, one an hourglass stamp around the edge, one Chevron (insignia), chevrons with central and end crosses, and one (found as a twisted bar) a zig-zag pattern; the remaining four are plain. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Huxley Hoard At The Museum Of Liverpool 1
Huxley may refer to: People * Huxley (surname) * The British Huxley family * Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895), British biologist known as "Darwin's Bulldog" * Aldous Huxley (1894–1963), British writer, author of ''Brave New World'', grandson of Thomas Huxley * Julian Huxley (1887–1975), British biologist, brother of Aldous Huxley * Andrew Huxley (1917–2012), British biologist, brother of Aldous Huxley * Anthony Huxley (1920–1992), British botanist, son of Julian Huxley * Francis Huxley (1923–2016), British botanist, anthropologist and author, son of Julian Huxley Geography * Huxley, Alberta, Canada * Huxley, Cheshire, England * Huxley, Iowa, United States * Huxley, Texas, United States * Huxley River, New Zealand * Mount Huxley (other) Education * Huxley College of the Environment, a college of Western Washington University Other * Huxley (lunar crater) * Huxley (Martian crater) * Huxley (video game), ''Huxley'' (video game), an MMOFPS by Webzen Games Inc. * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
