{"title":"CONTEMPORARY COPPER AGE BURIALS FROM THE VARNA MORTUARY ZONE, BULGARIA","authors":"B. Gaydarska, A. Bayliss, V. Slavchev","doi":"10.1017/S0003581521000032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003581521000032","url":null,"abstract":"The Copper Age cemetery in Varna, Bulgaria, is famous for the earliest known, massive deposition of exquisite golden artefacts. Radiocarbon dating of the Varna i cemetery, excavated in the period 1972–91, places it in the mid-fifth millennium bc and suggests a duration of c 225 years from c 4550 to c 4325 cal bc. Construction work in the adjacent area (2.5 km to the east of Varna i cemetery) in December 2017 led to the discovery of sixteen new graves, whose characteristics are identical to the burials in the cemetery investigated in the last century. This article discusses the AMS dates of ten newly discovered inhumations. The results match well the existing cemetery chronology, showing that the new graves start slightly later and end earlier than Varna i and have a shorter duration of probably no more than a few decades. It is demonstrated for the first time that some areas of burial on the terrace were in continuous use for one or two generations only, suggesting multi-focal depositional activities as opposed to expedient and opportunistic spatial utilisation.","PeriodicalId":44308,"journal":{"name":"Antiquaries Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-06-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0003581521000032","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42075071","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":"PICTURING PARLIAMENT: THE GREAT SEAL OF THE COMMONWEALTH AND THE HOUSE OF COMMONS","authors":"J. Cooper, J. Jago","doi":"10.1017/S0003581521000020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003581521000020","url":null,"abstract":"Presenting research conducted by the ‘St Stephen’s Chapel, Westminster’ project at the University of York, this article focuses on the Great Seal devised in 1649 and re-issued in 1651 to enable the Commonwealth to function following the execution of Charles i. As a familiar and ancient image of monarchy, the Great Seal posed an obvious challenge to the authority of the Rump Parliament. A radical new design, authorised by parliamentary committee and executed by engraver Thomas Simon, replaced royal iconography with images of popular sovereignty and nationhood: a map of England and Ireland on the obverse of the Seal, and the interior of the House of Commons chamber (formerly St Stephen’s Chapel) on the reverse. The result was a striking evocation of political authority located in the House of Commons and deriving from the English people. Engravings of the Commons chamber, in circulation since the 1620s, are identified as a probable source for Simon’s work. The Great Seal also re-asserted England’s dominion over Ireland and the waters surrounding the British Isles. Overall, this article argues for continuity as well as alteration in the iconography of the Great Seal of England, at a time of revolutionary political change.","PeriodicalId":44308,"journal":{"name":"Antiquaries Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-04-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0003581521000020","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48449264","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 Poole Iron Age Logboat. Edited by Jessica Berry, David Parham and Catrina Appleby. 290mm. Pp x + 121, 82 figs, tabs. Archaeopress Archaeology, Oxford, 2019. isbn 978178961443. £30 (pbk).","authors":"T. Kearns","doi":"10.1017/S0003581520000529","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003581520000529","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44308,"journal":{"name":"Antiquaries Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0003581520000529","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43120560","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 ‘CARPIO ALBUM’ (SAL ms 879): COMMISSIONING, AUTHORSHIP AND CULTURAL AGENDA","authors":"Giulia Fusconi, Jorge Fernández-Santos, Brigitte Kuhn-Forte","doi":"10.1017/S0003581521000019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003581521000019","url":null,"abstract":"An outstanding cultural promoter, collector and patron of the arts in his native Spain, Gaspar de Haro y Guzmán (1629–87), 7th Marquess del Carpio, left his mark as ambassador in Rome (1677–82) and as viceroy in Naples (1682–7). In Italy, Carpio assembled forty-three volumes of drawings, of which only four, including SAL ms 879, have been spared dismemberment. Yet, lumping the ‘Carpio Album’ together with the nobleman’s collection of original drawings completely misses the point. Unlike the others, which were assembled to boost Carpio’s connoisseurship of Italian art, the Album was commissioned to showcase the collection of (largely antique) sculpture he had acquired in Rome and the series of modern fountains he commissioned, also in Rome. Like Vincenzo Giustiniani’s epoch-making Galleria Giustiniana of 1636–7, the Album was to be printed. The marquess’s departure for Naples cut short an ambitious publication project, the theoretical background and pedagogic scope of which have been largely overlooked. The attribution of drawings to artists Philipp Schor and Paolo De Matteis, amongst others, underlines the complex cultural agenda underpinning an Album conceived to reinstate the Roma antica myth by linking it to its Roma moderna counterpart. A new understanding of De Matteis’s artistry and objectives in configuring the Album is complemented with findings regarding Carpio’s commissioning or acquisition of antique, pseudo-antique and modern sculpture. The collection’s fateful dispersal helps unravel the Album’s most likely provenance.","PeriodicalId":44308,"journal":{"name":"Antiquaries Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-03-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0003581521000019","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49383560","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 Towers of Lordship. By Michael G Shapland. 245mm. Pp xviii + 261, 74 b&w figs, 8 tabs. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2019. isbn 9780198809463. £85 (hbk).","authors":"David Parsons","doi":"10.1017/S0003581520000372","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003581520000372","url":null,"abstract":"northwards along the fen-edge, which had an exquisite stone shrine with artistic links to Peterborough: did that house another hermit, on whose cult the great minster did in fact lay its hands? The second half of the volume surveys the cult’s somewhat muted post-Conquest development (Licence), the famously imaginative historical writing that surrounded it in the twelfth to thirteenth centuries (Ispir and Sharpe), and its late medieval expressions in the graphic arts, seals, music and architecture (Roberts, Danbury, Heslop, Parkes and Alexander). It ends – poignantly so, given the author’s recent tragic death – with Richard Sharpe’s new and surely definitive edition of the twelfth-century ‘Translation and Miracles’. ‘Expansive’ is the word for this book: the contributors had a generous frame to work in, and everything is here. Occasionally – as when reading about the political background or the setting of Guthlac’s cult for the third or fourth time – one might wish for tougher editing to reduce duplication, but the varied perspectives on the same problems are often interesting. The volume is a monument to Guthlac as magnificent as King Æthelbald’s must have been, and a credit to Shaun Tyas – far more than publisher – whose personal commitment and engagement are obvious throughout.","PeriodicalId":44308,"journal":{"name":"Antiquaries Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-03-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0003581520000372","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47934167","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 CHRONOLOGICAL FRAMEWORK OF EARLY ANGLO-SAXON GRAVES AND GRAVE GOODS: NEW RADIOCARBON DATA FROM RAF LAKENHEATH, ERISWELL, SUFFOLK, AND A NEW CALIBRATION CURVE (IntCal20)","authors":"J. Hines","doi":"10.1017/S0003581520000517","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003581520000517","url":null,"abstract":"Between 1998 and 2008, 450 inhumation burials of the fifth to eighth centuries ad were excavated in four separate but adjacent burial grounds within RAF Lakenheath airbase in Suffolk. Study of the evidence has been based on the typology of the national chronological framework of sixth- and seventh-century graves and grave goods published in 2013, and correlated also with a related East Anglian regional scheme. Fifty high-precision radiocarbon dates allow for thorough evaluation of the scope for applying the phase-structure and estimated date-boundaries of the national framework to this one large site. The results can be held to reproduce the core sequence of the national framework, albeit with necessary modifications that provide greater insights into the processes used to generate models of the data, besides significant modifications to the perceived date-ranges of certain artefact-types. The results have also been markedly influenced (and apparently improved) by a new standard calibration curve, IntCal20, launched in August 2020. This study thus suggests key agenda for further productive research into this contextually vital body of information.","PeriodicalId":44308,"journal":{"name":"Antiquaries Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-02-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0003581520000517","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41700332","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 of Allusion: illustrators and the making of English literature, 1403–1476. By Sonja Drimmer. 255mm. Pp 324, 97 b&w figs, 27 col pls. University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia, 2019. isbn 9780812250497. £50 (hbk).","authors":"C. Moseley","doi":"10.1017/S0003581520000530","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003581520000530","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44308,"journal":{"name":"Antiquaries Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0003581520000530","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46754926","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":"TATTERSHALL CASTLE AND THE NEWLY-BUILT PERSONALITY OF RALPH LORD CROMWELL","authors":"James Wright","doi":"10.1017/S0003581520000505","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003581520000505","url":null,"abstract":"Tattershall Castle (Lincolnshire, UK) was built for the Lord Treasurer of England, Ralph Cromwell, in the mid-fifteenth century. Cromwell was a skilled politician who rose from relative obscurity via royal service; however, he never attained high social rank and made significant enemies in the royal council. He is noted to have been a prickly and self-righteous individual who wore his new-found status in society with towering pride. The architecture of Cromwell’s major building project at Tattershall offers clues towards his personality. Architectural details – grouped and repeated motifs such as ancient family armorials, the Treasurer’s purse and the truculent motto ‘Have I not right?’ – may reveal fault lines and anxieties about Ralph’s relative place in society as he struggled for political survival.","PeriodicalId":44308,"journal":{"name":"Antiquaries Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0003581520000505","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43291649","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 DECORATED AND INSCRIBED STRAP-END FROM NUFFIELD, OXFORDSHIRE","authors":"L. Webster, E. Okasha, David Williams","doi":"10.1017/S0003581520000499","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003581520000499","url":null,"abstract":"The object described and discussed in this paper is a recently found Anglo-Saxon strap-end. Although incomplete, the strap-end is of interest in view of its rarity in being made of silver, of its decoration and of it containing an inscribed text. One part of the decoration is a depiction of the agnus dei. In the discussion, the decoration on the strap-end, and its significance, is set in the context of other instances of the agnus dei, both on artefacts and in manuscripts, from late Anglo-Saxon England.","PeriodicalId":44308,"journal":{"name":"Antiquaries Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2020-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0003581520000499","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45746829","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}