Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1017/S0003581522000208
T. Malim
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.
{"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":"102 1","pages":"471 - 472"},"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}
Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1017/S0003581521000421
Paula Fox
cated numismatic department almost a century later in that transformed numismatics in Britain (p ), subsequently resulting in a various massive acquisitions and the inauguration of the series of British Museum catalogues that remain the standard references and continue to inform and stimulate further study. The model of the British Museum’s Department of Coins and Medals provided Arthur Evans with an example that contributed to the formation of the Heberden Coin Room in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford in . The Department of Coins and Medals in Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum was built on the same model (energetically supported by Phillip Grierson, a twentieth-century medieval scholar and coin collector who can stand comparison with the early modern figures who populate Burnett’s study). Dedicated numismatic departments within museums also contribute to the life and learning of numismatic societies, which became important in the nineteenth century, although numismatics figured largely in the meetings of the Society of Antiquaries since its foundation in . Universities, scholarly societies and museum numismatic departments provide an ideal environment for the study of coins, which can languish rapidly without such institutional support. It is hard to imagine that these meticulously researched, lavishly illustrated and beautifully produced volumes could have been possible without the help of the British Museum, where Burnett spent his professional life, and the support of the British and Royal Numismatic Societies.
{"title":"The Display of Heraldry: the heraldic imagination in arts and culture. Edited by Fiona Robertson and Peter N Lindfield. 238mm. Pp xii + 243, 97 figs mixed col and b&w. The Heraldry Society, London, 2019. isbn 9780904858044 £35 (pbk).","authors":"Paula Fox","doi":"10.1017/S0003581521000421","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003581521000421","url":null,"abstract":"cated numismatic department almost a century later in that transformed numismatics in Britain (p ), subsequently resulting in a various massive acquisitions and the inauguration of the series of British Museum catalogues that remain the standard references and continue to inform and stimulate further study. The model of the British Museum’s Department of Coins and Medals provided Arthur Evans with an example that contributed to the formation of the Heberden Coin Room in the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford in . The Department of Coins and Medals in Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum was built on the same model (energetically supported by Phillip Grierson, a twentieth-century medieval scholar and coin collector who can stand comparison with the early modern figures who populate Burnett’s study). Dedicated numismatic departments within museums also contribute to the life and learning of numismatic societies, which became important in the nineteenth century, although numismatics figured largely in the meetings of the Society of Antiquaries since its foundation in . Universities, scholarly societies and museum numismatic departments provide an ideal environment for the study of coins, which can languish rapidly without such institutional support. It is hard to imagine that these meticulously researched, lavishly illustrated and beautifully produced volumes could have been possible without the help of the British Museum, where Burnett spent his professional life, and the support of the British and Royal Numismatic Societies.","PeriodicalId":44308,"journal":{"name":"Antiquaries Journal","volume":"102 1","pages":"487 - 488"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44688738","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}
Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1017/S0003581522000051
B. Watson
Just as sculptors came from Gaul to work in Bath stone, surely it is possible that a Gaulish or Gaulish-trained bronze worker cast the Bath statue in situ. The remarkable images of deities generally published as being from the corners of the main altar, but with affinities to the Viergötterstein from the Rhineland, may well be part of some other monument, as Cousins suggests, an idea first proposed, I think, by our late Fellow, Tom Blagg. Other sculptures are equated with local dedications from other places in the Cotswold region of south-west Britain. Dedications to the Suleviae at both Bath and Chichester by a sculptor called Sulinus and the identical style and epigraphy inscribed on tablets by one Docili(a)nus at both Bath and Uley reveal not only an individual intent on bothering the gods, but connectivity and pilgrimage within the province and, indeed, beyond, as is implied by Solinus’s mention of what can only be coal being burnt on the altar of Minerva’s temple at Bath. While there is somuch to admire in Cousins’s work, Davenport gains in his descriptions of the actual archaeology of the structures as well as in fairly lavish use of colour. He inevitably builds on Barry Cunliffe’s Roman Bath Discovered published twenty years ago (Cunliffe ), but more has been discovered since and of particular importance is a raft of masonry to the east of the temple court, which he interprets as a theatre on the same magnificent scale as the baths. It will require a chance to excavate in the area of the putative cavea to prove it. If so, either the blocks identified as from a tholos will have to have been sited elsewhere, or they were, indeed, part of the ornamentation of the theatre. Also of great interest has been the excavation of houses; whether or not Bath is best described as a sanctuary, it developed urban features, including houses with mosaic floors. Of especial interest is the very rare discovery bust of a woman, unfortunately now headless, carved in local stone and found in a second-century house excavated in Hat and Feather Yard; it presumably came from a house shrine and is indicative of the Romanitas of the owner. The sanctuary certainly required many people to service it, and that meant dwelling places, guest houses, shops and cemeteries for the dead – and beyond the urban area Bath was ringed by suburban villas. Many exciting discoveries have been made in Bath, including the enormous Beau Street hoard of coins deposited in the late third century and never recovered. In short, both of these books are to be warmly commended as valuable contributions not just to the study of Roman Britain but to Classical archaeology in general.
{"title":"London in the Roman World. By Dominic Perring. 233mm. Pp xix + 573, 90 b/w figs, tabs. Oxford University Press, 2022. isbn 9870198789000. £40 (hbk).","authors":"B. Watson","doi":"10.1017/S0003581522000051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003581522000051","url":null,"abstract":"Just as sculptors came from Gaul to work in Bath stone, surely it is possible that a Gaulish or Gaulish-trained bronze worker cast the Bath statue in situ. The remarkable images of deities generally published as being from the corners of the main altar, but with affinities to the Viergötterstein from the Rhineland, may well be part of some other monument, as Cousins suggests, an idea first proposed, I think, by our late Fellow, Tom Blagg. Other sculptures are equated with local dedications from other places in the Cotswold region of south-west Britain. Dedications to the Suleviae at both Bath and Chichester by a sculptor called Sulinus and the identical style and epigraphy inscribed on tablets by one Docili(a)nus at both Bath and Uley reveal not only an individual intent on bothering the gods, but connectivity and pilgrimage within the province and, indeed, beyond, as is implied by Solinus’s mention of what can only be coal being burnt on the altar of Minerva’s temple at Bath. While there is somuch to admire in Cousins’s work, Davenport gains in his descriptions of the actual archaeology of the structures as well as in fairly lavish use of colour. He inevitably builds on Barry Cunliffe’s Roman Bath Discovered published twenty years ago (Cunliffe ), but more has been discovered since and of particular importance is a raft of masonry to the east of the temple court, which he interprets as a theatre on the same magnificent scale as the baths. It will require a chance to excavate in the area of the putative cavea to prove it. If so, either the blocks identified as from a tholos will have to have been sited elsewhere, or they were, indeed, part of the ornamentation of the theatre. Also of great interest has been the excavation of houses; whether or not Bath is best described as a sanctuary, it developed urban features, including houses with mosaic floors. Of especial interest is the very rare discovery bust of a woman, unfortunately now headless, carved in local stone and found in a second-century house excavated in Hat and Feather Yard; it presumably came from a house shrine and is indicative of the Romanitas of the owner. The sanctuary certainly required many people to service it, and that meant dwelling places, guest houses, shops and cemeteries for the dead – and beyond the urban area Bath was ringed by suburban villas. Many exciting discoveries have been made in Bath, including the enormous Beau Street hoard of coins deposited in the late third century and never recovered. In short, both of these books are to be warmly commended as valuable contributions not just to the study of Roman Britain but to Classical archaeology in general.","PeriodicalId":44308,"journal":{"name":"Antiquaries Journal","volume":"102 1","pages":"475 - 477"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45911070","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}
Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1017/S0003581522000099
Rita Wood
The five most complete royal buildings remaining from the post-Conquest period in Britain have exterior decoration resembling that at churches. It is widely appreciated that the scale of royal buildings demonstrated the earthly power of the Norman kings, but their decoration, largely overlooked, can be shown to proclaim that the power of God was also present there. The sacred power of the king was explicit in the coronation rite at the anointing, and the subsequent investiture with regalia was re-staged by the crown-wearing practised in varying degrees by the Norman kings.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1017/S0003581522000075
R. Hutchinson
This analysis of the despoilation of monumental brasses and tombs in London during Edward vi’s reign is based on evidence provided by contemporary inventories of church goods and churchwardens’ accounts, supported by fieldwork and discoveries of recycled brasses during conservation. It reveals how the Reformation impacted the fortunes of the London marblers producing brasses, describes how plundered memorials were sold and provides evidence on their fate. Estimates, based on volumes of metal sold, create a potential range of 700–812 brasses lost from possibly forty-three London churches over 1548–53. After c 1550, marblers engraved 2mm thick hammered plate (cast from despoiled latten church goods, such as candlesticks and crucifixes) to sustain production when supplies of looted brasses diminished. The trade in plundered brasses ended after the accession of Edward’s Catholic half-sister, Mary, in August 1553.
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Pub Date : 2022-09-01DOI: 10.1017/s000358152200021x
S. Rippon
{"title":"Peasant Perceptions of Landscape: Ewelme Hundred, South Oxfordshire, 500–1650. By Stephen Mileson and Stuart Brookes. 245mm. Pp xx + 363, 93 figs (mostly col), 11 tabs. Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2021. isbn 9780192894892. £85.00 (hbk).","authors":"S. Rippon","doi":"10.1017/s000358152200021x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s000358152200021x","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":44308,"journal":{"name":"Antiquaries Journal","volume":"102 1","pages":"479 - 480"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44932251","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}
Pub Date : 2022-08-08DOI: 10.1017/S0003581521000470
Nigel Saul
trenches, including two on the motte summit, revealed almost nothing. The only structural evidence was a solitary posthole, perhaps for the palisade. It would appear that the site was abandoned before completion, which in itself is of interest to students of castle studies. About half a mile to the north of Ponthendre lies the village of Longtown, with its masonry castle, the prominent feature being the round keep on the motte. The castle has an inner and outer bailey, with the rampart running on the east side of Castle Green. This eastern rampart, together with the bailey defences, combine to give the appearance of a Roman fort, and the archaeology did indeed reveal Roman material of the late first century AD and into the second. Of more interest to medievalists was the discovery that the rampart at Longtown had been heightened before the castle was built, and the authors have suggested that this work was undertaken by Harold Godwinson in the s as part of his campaign against Gruffudd ap Llywelyn, ruler of much of Wales until his death at the hands of his compatriots in . The study of the de Lacy great tower will be of particular interest to castellologists. There are two schools of thought regarding the date of construction. Most would accept a date in the opening decades of the thirteenth century, a time when most of the round keeps in south-east Wales and the Marches were built. However, this theory is at odds with the Norman carved masonry roundels used in one of the windows, suggesting a later twelfth century date, products of the Herefordshire School of Romanesque Sculpture. However, the window voussoirs were clearly not designed for Longtown, and this reviewer would still argue for a date in the early thirteenth century for the tower. The authors’ study of the great tower at Longtown does suggest that, assuming the text was subject to a peer review, the reviewer was not a castellologist. It is stated that there are no great round towers in Scotland when there are two, at the castles of Bothwell and Kildrummy. This book is more than an excavation report, itself covered in some fifty pages in part one. Part two, the core of the book, over pages, is a ‘new’ history of Ewyas and the family with which it is strongly associated, the de Lacy dynasty, a family strongly associated with Ludlow in Shropshire and Trim in Co. Meath. Four appendices shed more light on certain aspects of the de Lacys. Logaston has already published studies of the de Clare, Fitzalan and Mortimer families, three other great Marcher dynasties, and it is useful to have the Lacy contribution. Logaston Press, founded originally by Andy Johnson in , has a long history of producing fine books on a whole range of aspects of the history of the Welsh Marches. The imprint remains, but the press was taken over by Su and Richard Wheeler of the Fircone Press in , and long may it thrive. Under the Wheelers there has been an improvement in the quality of production,
战壕，包括莫特峰上的两条战壕，几乎什么也没暴露。唯一的结构性证据是一个单独的死柱，也许是栅栏的死柱。该遗址似乎在完工前就被遗弃了，这本身就引起了城堡研究生的兴趣。蓬滕德雷以北约半英里处是朗镇村，有一座砖石城堡，突出的特点是莫特河畔的圆形城堡。城堡有一个内部和外部的贝雷，城墙在格林城堡的东侧。这座东部城墙，加上贝利防御工事，看起来像一座罗马堡垒，考古确实揭示了公元一世纪末至二世纪的罗马材料。中世纪学者更感兴趣的是发现朗镇的城墙在城堡建造之前就已经加高，作者认为这项工作是由哈罗德·戈德温森在这是他对抗威尔士大部分地区统治者Gruffudd ap Llywelyn运动的一部分，直到他死于年的同胞之手. 德莱西大塔的研究将引起种姓学家的特别兴趣。关于建造日期，有两个学派。大多数人都会接受13世纪初的几十年，当时威尔士东南部的大部分圆形城堡和马尔凯城堡都是在这个时候建造的。然而，这一理论与其中一扇窗户中使用的诺曼雕刻的砖石圆形不一致，这表明其年代为12世纪晚期，是赫里福德郡罗马式雕塑学校的产物。然而，窗户显然不是为龙镇设计的，这位评论家仍然认为这座塔的日期是13世纪初。作者对Longtown大塔的研究确实表明，假设文本经过同行评审，评审者不是种姓学家。据说，当苏格兰有两座大圆塔时，就没有了，那就是博思韦尔城堡和基尔德拉米城堡。这本书不仅仅是一份挖掘报告，第一部分大约有50页。第二部分，本书的核心，结束 pages，是Ewyas及其密切相关的家族de Lacy王朝的“新”历史，该家族与什罗普郡的Ludlow和Meath郡的Trim密切相关。四个附录对德拉西斯的某些方面有了更多的了解。洛加斯顿已经发表了对德·克莱尔、菲扎兰和莫蒂默家族的研究，这是另外三个伟大的马歇尔王朝，莱西的贡献是有用的。Logaston出版社，最初由Andy Johnson于, 有着悠久的历史，出版了关于威尔士行军历史各个方面的精品书籍。印记仍然存在，但出版社于年被Fircone出版社的苏和理查德·惠勒接管, 愿它长盛不衰。在惠勒的领导下，制作质量有所提高，尤其是在插图方面。尽管这是一家小型家族企业，但图书制作的某些方面需要仔细观察。在这种情况下，是参考书目，其中的参考文献被复制或以错误的顺序出现，而且，我敢说，审稿人写的并在第一个尾注中引用的项目被省略了！
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