Gold necklace
Published June 18, 2024 / by Andrew Heavens / Leave a CommentWhat: Gold necklace taken by Col Sydney Yorke
Where: The British Museum, Great Russell St, Bloomsbury, London WC1B 3DG
‘Theodore’s shirt’
Published June 18, 2024 / by Andrew Heavens / Leave a CommentWhat: Shirt said to have belonged to the emperor
Where: The Duke of Wellington’s Regimental Museum, Bankfield Museum, Boothtown Road, Halifax, West Yorkshire, HX3 6HG
Sacred church hanging, described as the largest tablet-woven textile in the world
Published June 18, 2024 / by Andrew Heavens / Leave a CommentWhat: A woven silk hanging, described as the largest of its kind in the world, used to conceal the entrance to the Holy of Holies of an Ethiopian church, taken by the British Museum’s expert on the expedition, Richard Rivington Holmes
Where: The British Museum, Great Russell St, Bloomsbury, London WC1B 3DG
Processional cross
Published June 18, 2024 / by Andrew Heavens / Leave a CommentWhat: Processional Cross
Where: Lancaster Priory, Priory Close, Lancaster, LA1 1YZ
The divided drum
Published June 18, 2024 / by Andrew Heavens / Leave a CommentA ceremonial drum was seized at Magdala and sliced into three pieces, so that it could be handed out as battle honours to three regiments involved in the raid. The present day descendants of those regiments have refused to return the drum pieces, despite appeals. The pieces went to the present day Royal Scots Dragoon […]
The Abuna’s gold crown
Published June 18, 2024 / by Andrew Heavens / Leave a CommentWhat: The abuna’s crown, dated 1740, made of gold alloyed with silver and copper with filigree work, glass beads, pigment and gilded copper
Where: The Victoria & Albert Museum, Cromwell Rd, Knightsbridge, London SW7 2RL