🟦 The Treasure Hoard Index & Full Map
"I share them with the gratitude that, through a strange quirk of career, I’ve had a certain freedom to be able to seek them out and photograph them."
treasure hoard gazetteer
The gazetteer is my personal collection of material treasures. It's a growing map of wonders that I've spent over forty years documenting.
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✨ Treasure Hoard:The Animal Heads at Deerhurst.
An enigmatic face, thought to be a wolf, with lines that vividly depict the senses.
🟨 Treasure Hoard Entry: The Whale Carving at Exeter Cathedral
I’m mesmerised by it. The carving is a breathtakingly beautiful, organic embodiment of a whale.
🟨 Treasure Hoard Entry: The Bone Chests of Winchester Cathedral
At Winchester Cathedral, along the top of the screens to the presbytery are six caskets. Each one has been inscribed with lettering.
🟨 Treasure Hoard Entry: The Brick Fields of Hightown, Merseyside.
I’m told that the bricks (amongst other later demolished sites) were deposited here after the blitz of Liverpool - swept up from the bomb-pitted terraced houses and trucked onto the beach.
🟨 Treasure Hoard Entry: Fish and Chip Shop, Portree, Isle of Skye.
No this really is special - fresh fish from the morning's catch, fresh air and a warm welcome.
🟨 Treasure Hoard Entry: The porch at Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire.
The C12th porch at Malmesbury Abbey is like a time portal. The exterior orders depict scenes from creation to ascension including David and Goliath, Samson and the Lion and Noah and the Ark.
✨ Treasure Hoard: Tomb to Roman Standard Bearer, Hexham Abbey, Northumberland
Hexham Abbey: this tomb to a Roman standard bearer is around 2000 years old
🟨 Treasure Hoard Entry: Art Nouveau Frieze on House for an Art Lover, Glasgow
House for an Art Lover was built in the 1990's to a design by Charles Rennie Mackintosh.