Event Details
- Location: Lichfield Cathedral
- Address: The Close, Lichfield, Staffordshire, WS13 7LD
- Start date: 29th January 2025
- End date: 29th January 2025
- Times: 2.00pm
- Entry fee: £10
Silk Roads
In this fascinating talk, Dr Sue Brunning, Curator at the British Museum, discusses Silk Roads, a major exhibition exploring the cultural exchanges along the network of routes linking Asia, Africa and Europe from about AD500-1000. The Lichfield Angel is on loan to the exhibition. Dr Brunning will also explore the Anglo-Saxon Kingdom of Mercia in the context of the silk roads.
Discovered in 2003 the Lichfield Angel is a remarkable survival of early mediaeval sculpture. The carved limestone panel, which is dated to around AD800, comprises three separate fragments which are thought to have formed the corner of a shrine chest, possibly that of St Chad (d.672).