Early Anglo-Saxon Christian Reliquaries.
This volume presents a corpus and discussion of seventy-one Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy containers from forty-nine sites across England dating to the seventh and possibly eighth centuries, and variously described as work boxes, needle cases, amulet containers or Christian reliquaries.
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Place / Publishing House: | Oxford : : Archaeopress,, 2022. ©2022. |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Information
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Figure 1. Type I Harford Farm reconstruction after Penn, K, 2000.
- Figure 2. Type I design principles
- Figure 3. Type I assembly features
- Figure 4. Type I and II techniques used for attaching lid top and body base (a) rivets, (b) flange and solder, (c) convex and solder, (d) material clenching
- Figure 5. Type I general arrangement when worn
- Figure 6. Aldborough (Yorkshire) unusual box with unfinished cruciform on body base
- Figure 7. Ascot-under-Wychwood (Oxfordshire) Type I base assembly with impressive Style II incised iconography
- Figure 8. Ashmolean Museum (Oxford) Type I, unprovenanced
- Figure 9. Dover Painted House (Kent) Type I after Philp 2003, base assembly with angled stop ridge, body decorated with chevron, cross saltire and diamond pattern
- Plate 1. Harford Farm (Norfolk) Type I after Penn 2000, reconstruction Tony Gibson and Peter Grey
- Plate 2. Hawnby (Yorkshire) Type I, reconstruction Tony Gibson
- Figure 10. Polhill (Kent) Grave 43 Type I after Philp 2003, with raised stop ridge. Lid ring and body repoussé decorated in curvaceous Salin Style II, lid top and body base with equal arm Latin cross
- Figure 11. Verulamium (Hertfordshire) Grave 21 Type I after Ager 1989, artistically decorated suggestive of Style II
- Figure 12. Wolverton (Buckinghamshire) Grave 2168 after PAS BUC-337D72, Type I with runes and hinged lid
- Figure 13. North Leigh (Oxfordshire) Type II with repoussé body and incised lid top decorations
- Figure 14. Suspension Flange Type II [a] Stanlow [b] Dover Buckland Grave 102 [c] Sibertswold Grave 80 [d] North Leigh [e] Burwell Grave 42 [f] Cuxton Grave 306 (iconography exaggerated) [g] St Mary's Stadium Grave 4202.
- Figure 15. Burwell (Cambridgeshire) Grave 42 [a] Type II most highly decorated of all Types of boxes [b] lid top and body base decorated with die stamped reconstruction of the Beowulf Dragon Fight?
- Figure 16. Burwell Village (Suffolk) Incomplete Type II decorative flange
- Figure 17a. Cuxton (Kent) Grave 306 Type II after Blackmore et al. Incised iconography on hill very faintly scratched on original , exaggerated for illustration
- Figure 17b. Cuxton (Kent) Grave 306 Type II after Blackmore et al. Incised iconography on hill very faintly scratched on original , exaggerated for illustration
- Plate 3. Dover Buckland Grave 107 Type II after Evison 1987
- Figure 18. North Leigh (Oxfordshire) Type II, lid top with incised decoration, body block type repoussé similar to that on a Type I box from Verulamium (Hertfordshire) Grave 21
- Figure 19. North Leigh (Oxfordshire) Type II, proposed construction sequence 1. Size and cut metal blanks 2. Decorate body with repoussé 3. Shape blanks around a core former, possibly a tree branch 4-5 Drill holes, apply rivets, shape trefoil flange and l
- Plate 4. Stand Low, Derbyshire, reconstruction by Peter Grey after a watercolour painting by L. Jewitt
- Figure 20. Cuxton (Kent) Grave 306 Type III after Blackmore et al 2006, with incised secondary Gospel scene
- Figure 21. Harford Farm(Norfolk) Grave 18 Type III after Penn 2000
- Figure 22. Marina Drive (Bedfordshire) Grave E3 lid top or body base, solder on underside, reused as a pendant
- Figure 23. Examples of cruciform decorations [a] Polhill Grave 23, [b] Kingston Down Grave 96, [c] Marina Drive Grave E3, [d] Uncleby Grave 1, [e] Sibertswold Grave 60, [f] Ashmolean Museum, [g] Garton Green II Barrow 6, Grave 4a, [h] Uncleby Grave 29.
- Figure 24. [a] Illustration of design concept: cross saltire and diamond pattern [b] Pottery examples after Myres, J 1977 Bagginton (Warwickshire), Chamberlain's Barn (Bedfordshire), Chevron example Sancton (Yorkshire). [c] Dover Painted House body decora
- Plate 5. Bronze figurine 9cm height, Imst, Austria
- Plate 6. Centre piece bronze diadem, Late Iron Age, Vergina, Greece
- List of Tables
- Table 1. Corpus of boxes by county and box Type
- Table 2. Boxes by Type, box components (C) box fragments (F)
- Table 3. Boxes with cruciform decorations and contents
- Table 4. Known position of boxes in graves
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Archaeological and Scientific Dating Evidence
- Tables
- Artefact Distribution Map
- Technical Details Type I
- Design and Manufacturing Techniques I
- Corpus of Type I boxes
- Aldborough, Yorkshire
- Arncliffe, Carr Farm, Yorkshire
- Ascot-under-Wychwood, Oxfordshire
- Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
- Bidford-on- Avon, Warwickshire
- Bulford, Wiltshire
- Burwell, Cambridgeshire
- Castledyke South, Barton-on-Humber, Lincolnshire
- Cransley, Northamptonshire
- Didcot Power Station, Oxfordshire
- Dover Painted House, Kent
- Finglesham, Kent
- Garton Green Lane II, Yorkshire
- Harford Farm, Caistor St. Edmunds, Norfolk
- Hawnby, Yorkshire
- Hurdlow, Derbyshire
- Isle of Thanet, Kent
- Kempston, Bedfordshire
- Kingston Down, Kent
- Lechlade, Butler's Field, Gloucestershire
- Marina Drive, Dunstable, Bedfordshire
- Painsthorpe Wold, Yorkshire
- Polhill, Dunton Green, Kent
- Standlake, Oxfordshire
- Tidworth, Wiltshire
- Uncleby, Yorkshire
- Updown, Eastry, Kent
- Verulamium, King Harry Lane, Hertfordshire
- Westfield Farm, Ely, Cambridgeshire
- Wolverton, Buckinghamshire
- Yatesbury, Cherhill, Wiltshire
- Design and Manufacturing Techniques II
- Technical Details Type II.
- Corpus of Type II boxes
- Burwell, Cambridgeshire
- Burwell Village, Suffolk
- Cuxton, Kent
- Dover, Buckland, Kent
- North Leigh, Oxfordshire
- Sibertswold, Kent
- St Mary's Stadium, Southampton, Hampshire
- Stand Low, Derbyshire
- Design and Manufacturing Techniques III
- Technical Details Type III
- Corpus of Type III boxes
- Cuxton, Kent
- Harford Farm, Norfolk
- Kingston Down, Kent
- Little Wilbraham, Cambridgeshire
- Prittlewell, Essex
- Fragments and Component Parts
- Barrington A [Edix Hill],* Cambridgeshire
- Barrington B [Hooper's Field?],* Cambridgeshire
- Bourne End, Buckinghamshire. SMR 0117702004
- Hambleton Moor female burial, Yorkshire. PRN MCA 3633
- Haslingfield, Cambridgeshire
- Marina Drive, Bedfordshire.
- Caerwent, Monmouthshire. PAS WAW-FF3CCA7
- Ilam, Staffordshire. PAS WMIDS-DC4EA4
- Kirton in Lindsey, Lincolnshire. PAS LIN-E32932
- Stroud, Gloucestershire. PAS GLO-DA7D75
- Wolfhamcote, Warwickshire. PAS WAW-DA3434
- Secular Art or Sacred Symbols?
- Box Type I: Components and metal fragments of boxes
- Box Type II
- Box Type III
- What are they?
- Discussion: What are they?
- The final deposition of reliquaries
- Appendix : Children's Inhumation Grave Assemblages
- Didcot (Oxfordshire) Grave 12. Female, age c.3-5 years
- Marina Drive (Bedfordshire) Grave E2. Female, age 12 years
- Marina Drive (Bedfordshire) Grave E3. Female, age 8 years
- Updown Eastry (Kent) Grave 76:34. Burial of a very small child or baby
- Acknowledgements
- Illustrations
- Photographs
- Bibliography.