The so-called 'Giant' or 'Huntsman' salt at All Souls College, Oxford, is famous amongst people interested in early English goldsmiths' work (Fig. 2). Made of silver-gilt in the form of a bearded man supporting a crystal salt-container on his head, it is mentioned in most general works on the history of English silver, and has been displayed in a number of loan exhibitions, most recently in 'A Treasured Inheritance: 600 Years of Oxford Silver' at the Ashmolean Museum, and ...