Saxon Obsequies: the Early Medieval Archaeology of Richard Cornwallis Neville

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H. Williams
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This paper investigates the origins of British Anglo-Saxon archaeology by focusing on the work of one early Victorian archaeologist: Richard Cornwallis Neville. The seemingly descriptive and parochial nature of Neville’s archaeological pursuits, together with the attention he afforded to Romano-British remains, has impeded due recognition, and critical scrutiny, of his contributions to the development of early Medieval burial archaeology. Using his archaeological publications as source material, I will show how Neville’s interpretations of Saxon graves were a form of memory work, defining his personal, familial and martial identity in relation to the landscape and locality of his aristocratic home at Audley End, near Saffron Walden, Essex. Subsequently, I argue that Neville’s prehistoric and Romano-British discoveries reveal his repeated concern with the end of Roman Britain and its barbarian successors. Finally, embodied within Neville’s descriptions of early Medieval graves and their location we can identify a pervasive Anglo-Saxonism. Together these strands of argument combine to reveal how, for Neville, Saxon graves constituted a hitherto unwritten first chapter of English history that could be elucidated through material culture and landscape.
撒克逊人的葬礼:理查德·康沃利斯·内维尔的早期中世纪考古
本文通过关注维多利亚时代早期考古学家理查德·康沃利斯·内维尔(Richard Cornwallis Neville)的工作,调查了英国盎格鲁-撒克逊考古学的起源。内维尔的考古研究表面上是描述性的和狭隘的,加上他对罗马-英国遗迹的关注,阻碍了对他对早期中世纪埋葬考古学发展的贡献的应有的认识和批判性的审查。利用他的考古出版物作为原始材料,我将展示内维尔对撒克逊坟墓的解释是如何成为一种记忆工作的形式,定义了他的个人、家庭和军事身份,以及他在埃塞克斯郡萨弗隆瓦尔登附近奥德利庄园的贵族住宅的景观和位置。随后,我认为内维尔的史前和罗马-英国的发现揭示了他对罗马不列颠及其野蛮继承者的终结的反复关注。最后,在内维尔对中世纪早期坟墓及其位置的描述中,我们可以发现普遍存在的盎格鲁-撒克逊主义。这些论点结合在一起,揭示了在内维尔看来,撒克逊人的坟墓如何构成了迄今为止未被书写的英国历史的第一章,这一章可以通过物质文化和景观来阐释。
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