Photos with descriptions and dimensions of the Migration period and Viking material in the Ashmolean. Many items come from the 19th century collecting of Sir Arthur Evans and his meticulous recording of provenances will enable these items to be fitted into their correct context on the Continent; some of his brooches can be paired with pieces now in Cologne and Berlin.

This lavishly produced volume presents a survey and analysis of a fascinating cabinet of curiosities established around 1750 by the Cobbe family in Ireland and added to over a period of 100 years. Although such collections were common in British country houses during the 18th and 19th centuries, the Cobbe museum, still largely intact and housed in its original cabinets, now forms a unique survivor of this type of private collection from the Age of Enlightenment.
A detailed catalogue of the objects and specimens is accompanied by beautiful, specially commissioned photographs that showcase...