🟨 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 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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🟦 Andy Marshall's 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. The treasures that I list here are not of any monetary value, but far more valuable.
🟦 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 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 Entry: 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.
🟨 Treasure Hoard Entry: The ancient yew tree at Breamore, Hampshire
The yew at Breamore (pronounced Bremmer) is situated alongside the path to the remarkable Anglo Saxon church.