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    Hanging Bowls Are A Distinctive Type of Artifact of The Period Between The

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    Hanging bowls were artifacts found in Anglo-Saxon graves between the fall of Rome in Britain in 410 AD and the rise of Christian Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in the 7th century. The bowls were typically made of thin bronze, 15-30 cm in diameter and dish-shaped, with three decorative plates below the rim to support suspension rings. The ornamental plates were often elaborately designed using techniques like enamel work and spiral motifs. While based on Celtic traditions, hanging bowls are mostly found in eastern Britain and Anglo-Saxon areas, with few found in Wales, Devon, and Cornwall.

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    Hanging bowls were artifacts found in Anglo-Saxon graves between the fall of Rome in Britain in 410 AD and the rise of Christian Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in the 7th century. The bowls were typically made of thin bronze, 15-30 cm in diameter and dish-shaped, with three decorative plates below the rim to support suspension rings. The ornamental plates were often elaborately designed using techniques like enamel work and spiral motifs. While based on Celtic traditions, hanging bowls are mostly found in eastern Britain and Anglo-Saxon areas, with few found in Wales, Devon, and Cornwall.

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    Hanging bowls were artifacts found in Anglo-Saxon graves between the fall of Rome in Britain in 410 AD and the rise of Christian Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in the 7th century. The bowls were typically made of thin bronze, 15-30 cm in diameter and dish-shaped, with three decorative plates below the rim to support suspension rings. The ornamental plates were often elaborately designed using techniques like enamel work and spiral motifs. While based on Celtic traditions, hanging bowls are mostly found in eastern Britain and Anglo-Saxon areas, with few found in Wales, Devon, and Cornwall.

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    Hanging Bowls Are A Distinctive Type of Artifact of The Period Between The

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    Hanging bowls were artifacts found in Anglo-Saxon graves between the fall of Rome in Britain in 410 AD and the rise of Christian Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in the 7th century. The bowls were typically made of thin bronze, 15-30 cm in diameter and dish-shaped, with three decorative plates below the rim to support suspension rings. The ornamental plates were often elaborately designed using techniques like enamel work and spiral motifs. While based on Celtic traditions, hanging bowls are mostly found in eastern Britain and Anglo-Saxon areas, with few found in Wales, Devon, and Cornwall.

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    Hanging bowls

    Hanging bowls are a distinctive type of artifact of the period between the end of Roman rule in
    Britain in c. 410 AD and the emergence of the Christian Anglo-Saxon kingdoms during the 7th
    century. The surviving examples have mostly been found in Anglo-Saxon graves, but there is
    general agreement that they reflect Celtic traditions of decoration.
    The bowls are usually of thin beaten bronze, between 15–30 cm (6-12 inches) in diameter, and
    dished or cauldron-shaped in profile. Typically they have three decorative plates ('escutcheons')
    applied externally just below the rim to support hooks with rings, by which they were suspended. The
    ornament of these plates is often very sophisticated, and in many cases includes beautiful
    coloured enamel work, commonly in champlevé and using spiral motifs. Although their designs and
    manufacture are thought to proceed from Celtic technique, they are principally found in eastern
    Britain, and especially in the areas which received Anglo-Saxon acculturation. Their production is
    also evidenced in Pictish and Irish contexts, but they seem almost completely absent
    from Wales, Devon and Cornwall.
    Rupert Bruce-Mitford's corpus gives the following breakdown of the locations in modern terms of the
    174 finds he includes (many are just one or more elements of a bowl):[1]
    England 117, Scotland 7, Ireland 17
    Norway 26, Sweden 2, Denmark 1,
    Germany 2, Belgium 1, Netherlands 1

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