• The Franks Casket, as displayed in the British Museum; the front and lid. The Franks Casket (or the Auzon Casket) is a small Anglo-Saxon whale's bone...
  • The Franks Casket is a cornucopia of stories and legends created from the bone of a whale and incorporating its very own riddle.
  • As a sum of numerous essays and the web site "Franks-Casket.de" the mentioned publication appeared in Germany (2021) and the USA (2023).
  • The Franks Casket is the centrepiece of the British Museum’s Anglo-Saxon collection, the British Museum is the archetype for all national museums.
  • One of the chief treasures of the Anglo-Saxon Halls in the British museum is the Franks or Auzon Casket.
  • Leslie Webster, The Franks Casket (British Museum Objects in Focus; London: British Museum, 2010).
  • Carved out of whale bone, the Franks Casket is an exquisite visual representation of the early Anglo-Saxon view of the history of the world.
  • The remaining panels were presented to the British Museum by one of its greatest benefactors, Sir Augustus Franks, after whom the casket is named.
  • Is the Franks Casket made of elephant tusk? The box is made of whalebone, richly carved on the sides and lid in high relief with a range of scenes and...
  • The runic text of the Franks Casket is transcribed below in Unicode. Five cryptogrammic runes for the vowel letters that occur on the right panel of the casket were...