Early medieval art and archaeology in the northern world : : studies in honour of James Graham-Campbell / / edited by Andrew Reynolds and Leslie Webster.

• Superior document: The Northern World
• TeilnehmendeR: Webster, Leslie,; Reynolds, Andrew
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands : : Koninklijke Brill NV,, [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: The Northern World
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (0 pages)
• Notes: Includes index.

Table of Contents

Intro -- Early Medieval Art and Archaeology in the Northern World -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- Foreword -- Preface -- List of Contributors -- List of Illustrations -- James A. Graham-Campbell-A Bibliography 1968-2011 -- OBJECTS -- Hanging Basins and the Wine-Coloured Sea: The Wider Context of Early Medieval Hanging Bowls -- The Wilton Cross Coin Pendant: Numismatic Aspects and Implications -- A Lost Pendant Cross from Near Catterick Bridge, Yorkshire -- Gabatae Saxiscae: Saxon Bowls in the Churches of Rome during the Eighth and Ninth Centuries -- 'All Shapes and Sizes': Anglo-Saxon Knives c. 700-1100 -- A Remarkable Anglo-Saxon Gold Finger-Ring from Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire -- An Anglo-Saxon Bone Acanthus-Leaf Mount from Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire -- Hybridity and Identity in Early Medieval Wales: An Enamelled Class G Brooch from Goodwick, Pembrokeshire -- Ring Rattle on Swift Steeds: Equestrian Equipment from Early Medieval Wales -- Viking and Late Norse Ceramic Baking Plates in the Hebrides -- A Gold Finger-Ring Found Near Tipperary, Ireland -- The Insular Comb -- Two Ninth-Century Pails from Ireland -- Weights and Weight Systems in Viking Age Ireland -- A Medieval Sword and Scabbard from the River Bann -- Some Viking Weapons in Sigvatr's Verse -- An Anglo-Saxon Disc-Brooch From Sjørring, Jutland -- Two Viking Age Pendants from Iceland -- Medieval Bronze Bowls from North Norway and Their Context: Sámi or Norse? -- An Important Late Merovingian or Early Carolingian Sword in the Yorkshire Museum -- HOARDS -- A Casket Fit for a West Saxon Courtier? The Plumpton Hoard and Its Place in the Minor Arts of Late Saxon England -- The 'Northern Hoards' Revisited: Hoards and Silver Economy in the Northern Danelaw in the Early Tenth Century -- Cuerdale: An Update from North-West England -- The Context of the 1858 Skaill Hoard.

The Silver Hoard from Skovvang, Bornholm -- Treasure-A View from the South -- PLACES -- Anglo-Saxon Civil Defence in the Localities: A Case Study of the Avebury Region -- The Liberty of Sandwich, Kent, c. 1300 and Its Implications for Earlier Topography -- A Viking Burial at Balnakeil, Sutherland -- Early Finds of Viking Graves in the Isle of Man -- Viking Age Agriculture in Ireland and Its Settlement Context -- The Reliability of the Alleged Early Lough Gara Iron -- Viking Brittany: Revisiting the Colony that Failed -- Saxons, Britons and Scots: Pilgrims, Travellers and Exiles on the Continent -- STYLE, SYMBOL AND MEANING -- William Nicolson's Drawing of the Main Text of the Bewcastle Cross -- 'Little Men' and the Missing Link: Irish Anthropomorphic Vessel Mounts -- Viking Raiding, Gift-Exchange and Insular Metalwork in Norway -- Copying and Creativity in Early Viking Ornament -- Finds of Treasure and Their Interpretation with Special Reference to Some Hoards Found in Birka and on Björkö -- King Harald's Rune-Stone in Jelling: Methods and Messages -- A Note on the Beard-Pulling Motif: A Meeting between East and West, or a Northern Import? -- Old English 'Wopes Hring' and the Old Norse Myth of Baldr -- END PIECES -- Endnote -- Index.