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Oxford and the Ashmolean Museum

Entrance to Exeter College

Amazing door to the college

Chapel

Quadrangle ... you cannot walk on this grass

Refectory

The Chapel

Inside the Chapel

The garden you can walk on this grass

the Rotunda and University Cathedral

This allowed graffiti when the Oxford rowing team wins in the regatta they get to put their win on the wall of the College

City wall

Statue of Cecil Rhodes ... Rhodes Scholarship founder

Closer view

Bodleian Library

Great corbel

in medieval times when you came to uni your studied seven disciplines and each discipline had its own door ... I think this one was Philosophy

bridge of Sighs ... copy of the one in Venice

the Alfred Jewel ... they think that he had a few of these made and sent them to abbeys with proclamations

Anglo Saxon glass

Alfred the great coins

Oddas Stone ... the next slide gives the details

viking copies of English coins ... to the left is a coin minted by the Viking Guthrum

Alfred the Great Coins

Stunning Anglo Saxon Brooches

12c Persian bowl

Iron age shoes

Anglo Saxon Jewellery

really old map the next slide has the details

Latest comments

06.05 | 01:57

Good stuff - the Brochs are fascinating things - they look like they should not stand at all. It was communal living certainly.
The history in Scotland is simply awesome - you are very lucky

14.04 | 09:53

It was amazing.

10.04 | 23:44

Very nice - looks like a great castle. The timber structures on top of the stonework you do not see a lot. Robert the Bruce connection is good - a small world

10.04 | 23:42

Warm lighting in the church. A brave guy - with a horse leg? Did anyone ask the horse.

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