The 9th-century Anglo-Saxon Trewhiddle hoard, found 1774 in an old tin-working near St Austell, Cornwall: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_1880-0410-1-3
The Fuller Brooch, a late 9th-century Anglo-Saxon silver and niello brooch showing the five senses with Trewhiddle-style animals: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_1952-0404-1
A lovely early 9th-century disc brooch with Trewhiddle-style creatures, from the Pentney Hoard, Norfolk: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brit_Mus_17sept_005-crop.jpg
The mid-9th-century, Anglo-Saxon Strickland Brooch; a bossed disc brooch of sheet silver with inlaid gold and niello ornament, featuring Trewhiddle-style beasts: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_1949-0702-1
The Æthelswith Ring, an Anglo-Saxon gold & niello finger ring featuring Trewhiddle-style designs, found Aberford, Yorkshire. The central medallion shows the Agnus Dei and an inscription mentions Queen Æthelswith of Mercia, the sister of Alfred the Great: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_AF-458
The 9th-century Æthelwulf Ring; a gold Anglo-Saxon finger-ring decorated in the Trewhiddle style, featuring two angry peacocks, found at Laverstock, Wiltshire. The inscription refers to King Æthelwulf of Wessex (839–58), father of Alfred & Æthelswith: https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=88977&partId=1&images=true
A late 8th-century Anglo-Saxon ring featuring a speckled quadruped with interlaced tongue & tail, found in Thames at Chelsea. Leslie Webster considers the 'frisky animal meshed in a thicket of interlace' to be a prefigurment of the 9thC Trewhiddle style: http://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O122093/ring-unknown/
The late 9th-/early 10th-century Abingdon Sword, with silver mounts decorated in the Trewhiddle style: http://poppy.nsms.ox.ac.uk/woruldhord/items/show/634 & http://collections.ashmolean.org/collection/search/per_page/25/offset/0/sort_by/relevance/object/23345
The 9th-century Fiskerton Sword, found on the north bank of the River Witham, Lincolnshire, in 1954 by a boy, presumably after dredging. The sword is 90cm long and is decorated with Trewhiddle-style silver mounts inlaid with niello.
Two silver plates from a house-shaped casket shrine of the early 10th century; the decoration features Trewhiddle-style elements with double-contoured, degenerate animals that belong to an English variant of the Viking Jellinge style: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_1954-1201-1
A late 9th-century Anglo-Saxon silver strap-end with zoomorphic Trewhiddle-style decoration, found near Maidstone, Kent: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/109499
Two matching 9th-century Anglo-Saxon hooked tags with Trewhiddle-style beasts, possibly hunting dogs; found Press, Shropshire: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/560071
An Anglo-Saxon open-work silver disc brooch from the 9th-century Pentney Hoard, Norfolk, with ornament that is 'composed of a completely developed and confident version of the Trewhiddle style'; the brooch is 10.2 cm in diameter: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_1980-1008-5
Another of the 9th-century Pentney Hoard silver disc brooches, decorated in the Trewhiddle style: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brit_Mus_17sept_004crop.jpg#mw-jump-to-license
The full 9th-century Pentney Hoard from Norfolk, consisting of six silver openwork Anglo-Saxon disc brooches that make extensive use of Trewhiddle-style decoration: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Anglo-Saxon_brooches_of_the_Pentney_hoard.jpg
The late 9th-century sword pommel from the Bedale Hoard, inlaid with gold foil in the Anglo-Saxon Trewhiddle style: https://commons.m.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sword_Pommel_from_the_Bedale_Hoard_YORYM_2014_149_1-1.jpg
The late 8th-century Anglo-Saxon sword pommel from Fetter Lane, London. The enmeshing of plant and animal forms, extensive use of niello, and speckled detail on the animal bodies are all features that became signatures of the Trewhiddle style: http://britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/collection_object_details.aspx?objectId=92019&partId=1
A massive 9th-century Anglo-Saxon finger ring made of gold inlaid with niello and found in the River Reno near Bologna, Italy; the whole surface, including the 7 roundels, is decorated with Trewhiddle-style plant and animal ornament: https://academia.edu/36962251/MA_Dissertation_A_Typological_Assessment_of_Late_Anglo-Saxon_and_Viking-Age_Finger-Rings_from_Britain_Dating_from_AD_600-1100
A late 9th-century silver disc brooch found on the bank of the River Cam, Barrington, Cambridgeshire. The brooch features a coarse version of the Anglo-Saxon Trewhiddle style with possible Viking influence in the central beast & the looped stem elements: https://www.britishmuseum.org/collection/object/H_1985-0702-1
A 9th-century silver strap end with a frowning, snarling beast in the Anglo-Saxon Trewhiddle style, found Oxfordshire: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/753697
Another Trewhiddle-style beast on a 9th-century Anglo-Saxon silver strap end, found in Rutland: https://finds.org.uk/database/artefacts/record/id/538973
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