Early Anglo-Saxon Christian Reliquaries.

Early Anglo-Saxon Christian Reliquaries.

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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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Gibson, Anthony.
Place / Publishing House:Oxford : : Archaeopress,, 2022.
©2022.
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Physical Description:1 online resource (106 pages)
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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.

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