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{"title":"A POLITICAL ‘HUMBUG’: DELIAN ANTIQUITIES AT SISSINGHURST CASTLE","authors":"J. Kierkuć-Bieliński","doi":"10.1017/s0003581523000112","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003581523000112","url":null,"abstract":"In 1936 the author, politician and garden designer Harold Nicolson bought four, round antique altars and a Corinthian capital from the sale of Shanganagh Castle, Co Wicklow. Nicolson and his wife, Vita Sackville-West, placed these marbles in a garden compartment at Sissinghurst that was intended to evoke the landscape and antiquities of the Cycladic island of Delos. These are among the most important antiquities in the collections of the National Trust, yet their provenance and significance has been obscured by their presumed status as ‘mere’ ornaments to the celebrated gardens at Sissinghurst Castle. This paper traces the provenance of this group of antiquities back to Delos and their discovery by a hero of the Greek War of Independence. Historic context for Vita and Harold’s use of the altars as adornments to their garden will be examined in the context of earlier use of similar Delian altars in earlier garden design – the seventeenth-century ‘garden museum’ at Arundel House, Strand, London, or the eighteenth-century gardens at Wrest Park. Finally, entry of the Sissinghurst altars into British collections will be examined through a political lens and through Nicolson’s philhellenism.","PeriodicalId":44308,"journal":{"name":"Antiquaries Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47352938","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":"SUTTON HOO: RE-IMAGING THE SHIP AND CHAMBER","authors":"V. Fenwick, Pat T Tanner","doi":"10.1017/s0003581523000021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003581523000021","url":null,"abstract":"The cemetery at Sutton Hoo in East Suffolk includes tumuli dating to the sixth–seventh centuries ad. The largest contained an intact ship-burial. The man commemorated is not identifiable, but is often presumed to be Rædwald, rex Anglorum c ad599–624/5. Excavation was curtailed by the outbreak of war in 1939. Despite subsequent re-excavation and lengthy research, questions remain.\u0000 Information dispersed in the definitive publication is correlated and developed. Digital 3D imaging of the ship’s iron fastenings are used here to extrapolate curved lines of missing rivets and superimpose them on the burial chamber plan. A digital roof reconstruction is also presented.\u0000 Mechanisms of collapse of the objects are deduced from their positioning and damage, revealing space for access to the chamber. A cross-section depicts the calculated height of the deck and known tilt of the ship. Residues of phosphate, Middle Eastern bitumen, tar and tape cumulatively suggest embalming practices. A temporary coffin and a bed on which possessions were placed are proposed.\u0000 The most valuable object relinquished is deduced to be the ship. Fragments of a possible anchor are identified. The suggested identification of the iron stand as a raised light would allow supporting ships to follow.","PeriodicalId":44308,"journal":{"name":"Antiquaries Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49333742","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":"Female Monasticism in Medieval Ireland: an archaeology. By Tracy Collins. 234mm. Pp xxviii + 644, 230 figs (some col), 17 tabs. Cork University Press, Cork, 2021. isbn 9781782054566. £35 (hbk).","authors":"Kimm Curran","doi":"10.1017/s0003581523000045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003581523000045","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44308,"journal":{"name":"Antiquaries Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43851375","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":"Unbuilt Strawberry Hill. By Peter N Lindfield. 250 mm. Pp x + 214, 204 ills (183 in col). Shaun Tyas, Donington, Lincs, 2022. isbn 9781915774040. £35 (hbk).","authors":"N. Guthrie","doi":"10.1017/s0003581523000069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003581523000069","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44308,"journal":{"name":"Antiquaries Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44767228","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":"Anglo-Saxon Hydraulic Engineering in the Fens. By Michael Chisholm. 230mm. Pp. x + 150, ills (some col), maps. Shaun Tyas, Donington, 2021. isbn 9781907730917. £14.95 (pbk).","authors":"M. Gardiner","doi":"10.1017/s0003581523000057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003581523000057","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44308,"journal":{"name":"Antiquaries Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48677919","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 King’s Work: the defence of the north under the Yorkist kings, 1471–85. By Anne F Sutton. 230 mm. Pp 530. Shaun Tyas, Donington, 2021. isbn 9781907730924. £30 (hbk).","authors":"Nigel Saul","doi":"10.1017/s0003581523000100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003581523000100","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44308,"journal":{"name":"Antiquaries Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46841847","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 CHAPEL OF ST CATHERINE AT THE CISTERCIAN ABBEY OF SAVIGNY: ‘UNEARTHING’ AN ARCHITECTURAL ENIGMA","authors":"Richard Allen","doi":"10.1017/s0003581522000270","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003581522000270","url":null,"abstract":"This article explores the history of St Catherine’s chapel at the abbey of Savigny, head of Normandy’s only monastic congregation. Built in the twelfth century, the chapel was, at the time of its demolition in 1705, the oldest remaining part of the medieval monastic complex. It therefore appears fairly regularly in the written record and has attracted not an insignificant amount of attention as a result. That said, the near total destruction after 1789 of Savigny’s buildings, and the often contradictory nature of those written sources by which antiquarians and academics have attempted, in the absence of sustained archaeological work, to reconstruct their medieval layout, mean that a great deal remains uncertain. St Catherine’s is no exception to this rule. Its precise location and design have to date been matters of conjecture, while a great deal of what has been written about it is either inaccurate or inconsistent (or both). This article brings together for the first time all the available references to (and scholarly discussions of) the building. It combines the findings of recent archaeological work with a reassessment of the written sources to argue that the chapel’s location within Savigny’s monastic precinct was almost unique in the Cistercian world, with its closest parallels being found instead in the Cluniac one. These circumstances were born more of accident than design, but they nevertheless presented challenges for Savigny’s medieval community, the consequences of which help shed light on wider issues relating to the use and reuse of Cistercian monastic spaces.","PeriodicalId":44308,"journal":{"name":"Antiquaries Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-04-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46565924","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 SMALLS SWORD GUARD: DISCOVERY, SIGNIFICANCE AND EXPERIMENTAL REPLICATION OF A HIBERNO-URNES MASTERPIECE","authors":"M. Redknap.","doi":"10.1017/s0003581522000257","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003581522000257","url":null,"abstract":"One of the finest examples of secular Hiberno-Urnes art from England and Wales was discovered by a diver on the offshore reef known as The Smalls (Welsh Gwales), Pembrokeshire, in the Irish Sea. The guard was probably made in Ireland about ad 1100–25 in a distinctive Hiberno-Scandinavian decorative style and technique with niello and silver inlays, and it illustrates the skills of a master craftsman or saer working for secular and ecclesiastical patrons. The findspot is now designated as historic wreck site under the Protection of Wrecks Act 1976 (no. 38).","PeriodicalId":44308,"journal":{"name":"Antiquaries Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46465451","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":"TORKSEY AFTER THE VIKINGS: URBAN ORIGINS IN ENGLAND","authors":"D. Hadley, J. Richards, E. Craig-Atkins, G. Perry","doi":"10.1017/s0003581522000269","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s0003581522000269","url":null,"abstract":"In ad 872–3 a large Viking Army overwintered at Torksey, on the River Trent in Lincolnshire. We have previously published the archaeological evidence for its camp, but in this paper we explore what happened after the Army moved on. We integrate the findings of previous excavations with the outcomes of our fieldwork, including magnetometer and metal-detector surveys, fieldwalking and targeted excavation of a kiln and cemetery enclosure ditch. We provide new evidence for the growth of the important Anglo-Saxon town at Torksey and the development of its pottery industry, and report on the discovery of the first glazed Torksey ware, in an area which has a higher density of Late Saxon kilns than anywhere else in England. Our study of the pottery industry indicates its continental antecedents, while stable isotope analysis of human remains from the associated cemetery indicates that it included non-locals, and we demonstrate artefactual links between the nascent town and the Vikings in the winter camp. We conclude that the Viking Great Army was a catalyst for urban and industrial development in Torksey and suggest the need to reconsider our models for Late Saxon urbanism.","PeriodicalId":44308,"journal":{"name":"Antiquaries Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2023-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46276744","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":"Assessing Iron Age Marsh-Forts: with reference to the stratigraphy and palaeoenvironment surrounding The Berth, North Shropshire. By Shelagh Norton. 290mm. Pp viii + 211, 109 ills (many col), 13 tabs, 3 app. Archaeopress, Oxford, 2021. isbn 9781789698633. £38 (pbk).","authors":"T. Malim","doi":"10.1017/S0003581522000208","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003581522000208","url":null,"abstract":"aerial photographic archive, which consists of the -odd digitised air photographs of the Bradford collection. John Bradford (–) was a photo interpretation officer in the British Army Intelligence Corps. The photographs were selected from a vast collection of aerial photographs taken shortly before the start of the Allied invasion of mainland Italy in September . These added to an already significant archive produced during the earlier Sicily campaign. With the exception of a series of oblique photographs taken by Bradford and Peter Williams-Hunt, the intention of which was to record archaeology, the original purpose of these images was military. The structure of this volume begins with an introduction to the Bradford archive in Chapter , before covering eight regions, one per chapter: Region , Lucera; Region , Upper Celone/Foggia southwest; Region , Upper Cervaro/Castelluccio; Region , Cerignola West; Region , Lago Salpi/ Zapponeta south; Region , Lower Celine/ Foggia northeast; Region , Candelaro/ Amendola; and Region , San Severo. It concludes with a bibliography and index of sites. There is considerable overlap across the two volumes: the mapping and georeferencing of the sites in volume  are central to the work described in volume , while information derived from work in the field is included in site descriptions in volume . This provides a smooth transition back and forth between the two books. Traditionally, Tavoliere field research has focused primarily on site typology, social hierarchy and artefact types; however, these publications differ markedly in their approach. Bringing together a pair of volumes of this magnitude, covering such a period of fieldwork, is a significant undertaking in its own right. To do this with such an original, and in places ground-breaking, methodology is exceptional. Their development and application of field methods of sensory archaeology are foundational, and the co-existence of a plethora of traditional and interpretative fieldwork regimes is both ambitious and impressive. The diagrams are fresh and the aerial photographs are stunning. There are very few areas of weakness; however, one minor point is that in places the object photography has some fairly significant shadows. Referencing is extensive and broad in scope. The work concludes that the world of the villaggi trincerati was maintained and regenerated as a series of socially nested scales of settlement that allowed uptake of new land and expanding populations without the emergence of hierarchical organisational structures. As one might expect, the opportunity is taken to suggest future work and sites to be investigated, as the team continues to contextualise their phenomenological investigations of this hugely significant landscape. Overall, these volumes are highly sophisticated, beautifully written and make an important contribution to our understanding of it.","PeriodicalId":44308,"journal":{"name":"Antiquaries Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44235745","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}