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{"title":"‘SARSEN STONES IN WESSEX’: A SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES PROJECT CONTEXTUALISED AND RENEWED","authors":"Katy A. Whitaker","doi":"10.1017/S0003581520000256","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003581520000256","url":null,"abstract":"This paper reviews the Society of Antiquaries’ Evolution of the Landscape project, which started in 1974, and the project’s Sarsen Stones in Wessex survey. The survey was an ambitious public archaeology undertaking, involving c 100 volunteers led by Fellows of the Society during the 1970s. Its aims, objectives and outcomes are described in this article. The survey’s unique dataset, produced for the counties of Wiltshire, Hampshire and Dorset, has now been digitised. Drawing on the dataset, the paper situates the Evolution of the Landscape project in the context of later twentieth-century British archaeology. It demonstrates the importance not only of individual Fellows, but also contemporary movements in academic and development-led archaeology, to the direction of the Society’s activities in this formative period for the discipline today, and shows how the Society’s research was engaged with some of archaeology’s most pressing cultural resource management issues.","PeriodicalId":44308,"journal":{"name":"Antiquaries Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-08-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0003581520000256","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43900055","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A REASSESSMENT OF LEATHERWORK FROM THE SUTTON HOO SHIP BURIAL","authors":"M. Volken, Q. Mould, E. Cameron","doi":"10.1017/S0003581520000426","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003581520000426","url":null,"abstract":"The seventh-century ship burial at Sutton Hoo Mound 1, excavated in 1939, contained an impressive display of gold, silver and bronze objects, weapons and other offerings. Organic materials such as wood, textiles and leather were also present. The leather items were studied, and the results published in 1983, when two pairs of shoes were identified from the extremely fragmented remains that survived. Recently, a reassessment of the leather fragments revised the identification to two bags and a single pair of shoes. Multiple reconstruction techniques, developed over the last twenty years, were used to examine the leather fragments and associated metal fittings to provide a new understanding of the leather items and how they had been placed in the burial.","PeriodicalId":44308,"journal":{"name":"Antiquaries Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-07-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0003581520000426","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49163130","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Book of Llandaf as a Historical Source. By Patrick Sims-Williams. Pp xiv + 211. The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 2019. isbn 9781783274185. £75.00 (hbk).","authors":"H. Fulton","doi":"10.1017/S0003581520000323","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003581520000323","url":null,"abstract":"of case studies of illustrative archaeological sites. The point that it is the excavated evidence which underlies the vital archaeologically based perspective on these centuries is an important one. Nevertheless, with the first  pages made up of just five chapters, it does make for a read in which the chapters feel rather long. And with Harvard-style references in chapter endnotes, the weight of those case studies can get wearying at times. The book is also copiously illustrated, but regrettably it must be noted that the quality and scale of reproduction is often unsatisfactory. In light of Carver’s own long experience, it seems likely that the fault in this respect lies with the publishers and the approach to production. At present, technology and business models seem widely to be leading to a conspicuous deterioration in publication standards. Intellectually, probably the most innovative feature of the work is the proposition that it is especially relevant to conceive of Britain as a whole in this period in terms of its ‘formative’ state: one more re-conceptualisation of a period for which we have a long tradition of different perspectives. It is admittedly a little facile, but not irrelevant, to note that it can only be a truism that any and every period of history is formative − if at different paces, and with varying weight. The term is quite briefly explained, with an ostentatious reference to Mesoamerican archaeology from the former editor of Antiquity, on pp xxiii–xxiv of the Preface. One thing that I think was really needed to give this concept more traction and to justify an especial focus on formativity was a fuller evaluation of the virtual tabula rasa of Roman Britain. It would also seem to be implied that this formative process saw a culturally more consistent Britain in major respects by the eleventh century. That may indeed be a valid proposition, but it would be right, then, also to stress the extent to which it is true as a Europe-wide phenomenon. It poses, however, a further critical question: was the level of cultural consistency achieved by a thousand years ago significantly different from that two thousand years ago at the end of the Iron Age? That could lead us to the proposition that the contrasting processes of disruption and divergences on the one hand and re-assimilation on the other during the first millennium AD were definitive features of an even wider period and zone. This is profoundly relevant to painful and destructive controversies that are currently being driven forward from some quarters in respect of the fifth to eleventh centuries AD, with reference to England in particular. Leaving aside obsolete concepts like the ‘Dark Ages’, notions of a ‘post-Roman’ or ‘pre-Conquest’ or even an ‘EarlyMedieval’ period effectively de-characterise the phase within itself, focusing instead on its status as a (long) transitional phase, which ended with the enforced political linking of England to Continental power-blocs, a","PeriodicalId":44308,"journal":{"name":"Antiquaries Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0003581520000323","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45885241","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Emergence of the English. By Susan Oosthuizen. Past Imperfect. 180mm. Pp viii + 140, 7 figs. ARC Humanities Press, Leeds, 2019. isbn 9781641891271. £16.95 (pbk).","authors":"J. Hines","doi":"10.1017/S0003581520000359","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003581520000359","url":null,"abstract":"sections, themselves split into subsections. The main sections are: the Invasion of Britain in AD  and subsequent military operations (sections –); Hadrian’s Wall and the Antonine Wall (sections –); the later second and early third centuries (sections –); such topics as soldier and civilian, administration, the economy and religion (sections –) –which together cover approximately half the entries – and the final two sections ( and ), which return to the historical order and cover the third and fourth centuries. Items selected by Tomlin for inclusion are designated by main section number, and then numerically, so ‘.’ as quoted below means the nineteenth text in section , a system that is simple and works well. One difficulty that Tomlin faced will have been to decide into which section to put some of the items – thus the famous writing tablet from Vindolanda (.) written by Claudia Severa, the wife of the commanding officer, to Sulpicia Lepidina, the wife of a fellow officer, is given in a sub section on Vindolanda in main section  – an early chronological section preceding the section devoted to Hadrian’s Wall – whereas it would have been tempting to put it in section  (Soldier and Civilian in the subsection entitled ’equestrian officers and their families’). There is only one case where this reviewer disagrees with Tomlin’s interpretation and that is the inscription round the mouth of the Ilam Staffordshire cup (.), and Tomlin’s taking the name Aelii with Valli – ‘the Wall of Aelius’, ie of Hadrian, while it almost certainly goes with Draconis ‘(the property) of Aelius Draco’. For this name, possibly the same man, see Henzen et al (, ,), Rome T Aelius Aug. lib Draco. Of course any second edition of Britannia Romana would also include inscriptions found after Tomlin’s closing date of , such as the inscription from Dorchester (Tomlin ), the tombstone of a veteran of Legion II Augusta comparable to the tombstone of the Veteran of the same legion from Alchester, Oxon (.), and, like that, useful in tracing the changing location of the legion in the first years of the Roman occupation. In conclusion it is often said that there are too many books on Roman Britain and readers – and possibly reviewers! – may well agree. However, if this statement is limited to books based on the historical or epigraphic source or one confined to the historical sources themselves, this is certainly not true; and it is hard to conceive of any other writer who would have the knowledge to produce a work like Britannia Romana or one who would have had the ability to have read texts like the Bloomberg documents or lead curse tablets from Bath or Uley in the first place.","PeriodicalId":44308,"journal":{"name":"Antiquaries Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-07-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0003581520000359","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49262624","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Oceania. Edited by Ethan E Cochrane and Terry L Hunt. viii + 513 pp. Oxford University Press, Oxford. 2018. isbn 97800199925070. £110 (hbk).","authors":"T. Thomas","doi":"10.1017/S0003581520000396","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003581520000396","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44308,"journal":{"name":"Antiquaries Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0003581520000396","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48687995","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Rameses III King of Egypt: his life and afterlife. By Aidan Dodson. 295mm. Pp 189, 131 col and b/w figs. The American University Press, Cairo, 2019. isbn 9789774169403. £29.95 (hbk).","authors":"P. A. Clayton","doi":"10.1017/s0003581520000311","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003581520000311","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44308,"journal":{"name":"Antiquaries Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-07-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/s0003581520000311","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44954069","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Art and Architecture of the Cistercians in Northern England c 1300–1540. By Michael Carter. 234mm. Pp xlvii + 328, 8 col plates, 103 figs, 2 maps. Brepols Publishers, Turnhout, 2019. isbn: 9782503581934. €100 (hbk).","authors":"R. Stalley","doi":"10.1017/s0003581520000384","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003581520000384","url":null,"abstract":"and meaning of such symbols as chalices, books, scrolls, hearts and souls. The complexity of some monuments and their settings is highlighted in the concluding section , which comprises a fascinating case study of the fourteenth-century priest’s tomb at Welwick. Identifying it as William de la Mare’s, the authors provide a masterful reconstruction of this partly dismantled monument that once apparently featured an ingenious use of light. The book includes an index and a helpful endpaper map of the county indicating the locations of the effigies discussed. It is richly illustrated and well written, although the wealth of factual information does not always make easy reading and more cross-referencing might have been helpful. It is regrettable that the authors often do not mince words criticising other writers, although they admit to having sometimes revised their own earlier findings (eg pp , –). Their descriptions of later repairs and recuttings, such as the seventeenth-century appropriation of a military effigy of c at Scarborough (figs  and ), should serve as a warning to the unwary. In  I myself hesitantly proposed a thirteenth-century date for the monument to Constantia and her son John in Scarcliffe (Derbyshire), which the authors cite in their comparison with Muriel FitzAlan’s effigy in Bedale (pp –), omitting that I have since argued the Scarcliffe effigy to be a post-medieval forgery. Dating and stylistic analysis are often a matter of opinion, of course, and few studies can ever be definitive. However, this survey is an impressive achievement that will inspire and assist present and future researchers of medieval monuments.","PeriodicalId":44308,"journal":{"name":"Antiquaries Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/s0003581520000384","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45314437","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The German Ocean: medieval Europe around the North Sea. By Bryan Ayers. 245mm. Pp xxi + 268, 93 figs, 4 maps. Equinox Publishing, Sheffield and Bristol, 2016. isbn 978904768494. £75 (hbk).","authors":"D. Gaimster","doi":"10.1017/s0003581520000335","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003581520000335","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44308,"journal":{"name":"Antiquaries Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/s0003581520000335","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47381206","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"NEW INSIGHTS INTO THE PAINTED CRUCIFIX ATTRIBUTED TO ANTONIO DE SALIBA, IN THE V&A MUSEUM, LONDON","authors":"C. Vella","doi":"10.1017/S000358152000030X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S000358152000030X","url":null,"abstract":"The V&A is home to a painted crucifix that has been attributed to the Sicilian master, Antonio de Saliba (c 1466/7–c 1535), who was active in Venice and eastern Sicily during the Renaissance. This paper takes a fresh look at the documentary sources that were published before the devastating earthquake that struck Messina, in the north west of Sicily, in 1908. In re-examining these sources, this paper reveals new insights into Antonio de Saliba’s oeuvre and enables a possible identification of the V&A’s painted crucifix with a specific contractual agreement that links this crucifix’s commission to the artist – specifically with a commission de Saliba received in 1508 from Limina, a small town in the province of Messina. The roots of this provincial commission would explain the persistence of a retardataire production visible in this early sixteenth-century painted crucifix. This paper also challenges the preconceived idea that such painted crucifixes were destined to be displayed high up in a church, on a tramezzo or beam.","PeriodicalId":44308,"journal":{"name":"Antiquaries Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S000358152000030X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47122025","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Latin Erotic Elegy and the Shaping of Sixteenth-Century English Love Poetry. By Linda Grant. 233mm. Pp viii + 263. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2019. isbn9781108493864. £75 (hbk).","authors":"P. Hartle","doi":"10.1017/s0003581520000347","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003581520000347","url":null,"abstract":"double tomb monument. It is informative and readable and draws on both extant and lost material. It places the subject matter in the contexts of the age and considers all forms of tomb alongside each other and not in isolation. The fashion for handholding raises important questions about production, motive and networks, and about the environment in which they were placed, and the author has provided much to consider and reflect upon. Stone Fidelity is a must not only for the already groaning shelves of tomb enthusiasts but also for anyone interested in, to borrow a phrase, effigies with attitude.","PeriodicalId":44308,"journal":{"name":"Antiquaries Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/s0003581520000347","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45204805","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}