Pub Date : 2021-07-26DOI: 10.1017/s0003581521000184
J. Blair
vived to be excavated is a complex settlement comprising large circular houses and more irregular structures that infill the spaces between the round houses, the broch and the surrounding rampart. In the Middle Iron Age most of the houses were wheelhouses. Wheelhouses, like brochs, are a regionally distinctive tradition of stone-walled roundhouses found in Atlantic Scotland. They are characterised by a peripheral area around a central open space that is divided into rooms defined by stone-built piers that protrude from the inner wall face. They are architecturally sophisticated structures but, unlike the brochs, the sophistication is only visible to those allowed to enter the structure. The presence of the circular houses distinguishes the village at Scatness from the well-known broch villages of Orkney where the constraints of circularity were discarded, and it confirms the pattern observed at nearby Jarlshof where a very similar, though much smaller, broch village of circular houses was excavated. The presence of a substantial village reflects the agricultural fertility of this district of south Shetland where the windblown sands encourage arable agriculture. They do not seem to be a feature of many of the Shetland brochs, though most of these brochs are surrounded by additional boundaries and the occasional external structure is not unusual. It is difficult to make an accurate estimate, given the amount of destruction caused by the airport road, but a village of at least sixteen separate buildings could have been present in the area surrounding the broch. Not all of the structures were domestic dwellings occupied by a household; structure , a rectangular building attached to a wheelhouse, was clearly providing specialist facilities for the adjacent household. The broch itself seems to be partially restructured, possibly late in this phase, but remains the focal point of the settlement with an entrance facing west. The site provides an extremely valuable sequence that demonstrates the development of wheelhouses from the last centuries BC through the first millennium AD, and provides important new information on how they were used. The early wheelhouses have isolated rectangular stone piers separate from the internal walls of the house. Close observation of the wear on the architectural stones reveals that the narrow gap between the pier and the wall was used as a doorway that allowed movement between the peripheral rooms. These movements may later have been regarded as problematic and the spaces were blocked up; later houses had long piers that ran up to the surrounding walls. The final wheelhouses were much smaller structures withmassive triangular piers fully bedded into the house walls. It is clear that early wheelhouses had an upper floor and though in some cases this may have been a mezzanine gallery in others it is argued that the first floor spanned the interior and was likely to have been the main living space. The later wheelhouses ar
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Pub Date : 2021-07-15DOI: 10.1017/S0003581521000160
Hugh Willmott, D. Wright, A. Daubney, P. Blinkhorn, S. Newman, Peter Townend, Graham Vickers
Abstract The rising popularity of hobbyist metal detecting has provided early medieval scholars with various important new datasets, not least the concentrations of metalwork commonly known as ‘productive sites’. Awareness of these foci derives almost exclusively from archaeological evidence, yet they continue to be interpreted through a documentary lens, and are frequently labelled ‘monasteries’. Using the recently discovered site of Little Carlton, Lincolnshire, as a case study, it is argued that comprehension of metal-rich sites is significantly furthered by turning to archaeologically-orientated research agendas and terminologies. As a consequence, seventh- to ninth-century Little Carlton can be understood as one element of a high-status ‘meshwork’ within early medieval East Lindsey, in which elite power was articulated in the landscape through a number of contemporary centres. On site, archaeology indicates the presence of occupation, burial and craft working, but shows that highly symbolic indigenous practices were taking place too, including intentional deposition into a naturally-occurring pond. Evidence for activity either side of the seventh to ninth centuries also stresses the importance of long-term trajectories in shaping the character of places previously celebrated for their finds-rich phases alone.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-09DOI: 10.1017/S0003581521000044
John F. H. Smith
After spending seven years practising as a doctor in Boston, William Stukeley moved to London in 1717. The following years were his most fertile, but by 1725 he had become disillusioned with Town and decided to move to Grantham in his home county of Lincolnshire. During his brief stay, 1726–9, he modernised his seventeenth-century yeoman’s house, and simultaneously developed ideas on the religion of the Druids and garden design that were unique and interacted with each other. Both were greatly influenced by the archaeological discoveries he had made at Stonehenge and Avebury (1719–24). At the same time he gradually changed his ideas on Christianity, which led to ordination in 1729 and a great change in his life.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-07DOI: 10.1017/S0003581521000056
A. James
Amphlett, J (ed) –. A Survey of Worcestershire by Thomas Habington, volumes & , Worcestershire Historical Society, Worcester Barnard, E A B . The Prattinton Collection of Worcestershire History, The Journal Press, Evesham Nash, T R –. Collections for a History of Worcestershire, volumes & , James Parker and Co., Oxford Rudge, E . XIV: description of the remains of Henry of Worcester, Abbot of Evesham, found in the ruins of the Abbey Church of Evesham, September , . In a letter addressed to Henry Ellis, Esq. F.R.S. Secretary, from Edward Rudge, Esq. F.R.S. A.S. and L.S., Archaeologia , –
Amphlett，J（编辑）–. 托马斯·哈宾顿的《伍斯特郡调查》，卷 & , 伍斯特郡历史学会，伍斯特巴纳德，E A B. 普拉廷顿伍斯特郡历史集，期刊出版社，伊夫舍姆·纳什，T R–. 伍斯特郡历史收藏，卷 & , James Parker and Co.，牛津Rudge，E. XIV： 伊夫舍姆修道院院长伍斯特亨利的遗体描述，于9月在伊夫舍姆教堂废墟中发现, . 在致F.R.S.秘书长Henry Ellis的信中，Edward Rudge、F.R.S.a.S.和L.S.，Archaeologia, –
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Pub Date : 2021-07-05DOI: 10.1017/s0003581521000068
Jayne Phenton
Norwood (‘Brown’ – no Capability here –might have been responsible for the fashion for them); an admiration for Scottish traditions, in this case for the dignified monuments in Grey Friars kirkyard in Edinburgh (Jacobean) and at St Michael’s, Dumfries (recent); a fascination with efficient gadgetry, here rotating biers with rollers and a vehicle called Mr Jukes’ Truck-Hearse, which extends to details such as handles and hinges; and detailed lists of appropriate plants and shrubs as a coda. But what marks this publication out is Loudon’s anger at the ‘disgusting’ state of mass burials in a single grave. He refers directly to the revolting practice then commonplace in town churches, of piling corpse upon corpse either outside or within stinking catacombs, to the extent that they sometimes reached a level higher than the floor of the church. On a trip across eastern Europe in the wake of the Napoleonic wars he had seen repellent sights involving desecrated corpses; here he repeats time after time that there must remain ’ of earth between each burial, forever. Of particular interest is his detailed specification for the design of a cemetery in Cambridge, the closest executed to his own design, and still in existence in recognisable form. Loudon states that the cemetery curator ought to be a man of intelligence and cultivated feelings: was he thinking wistfully of himself? Curl’s long essay provides an invaluable, authoritative introduction both to the writer and to this work. It is rather more than a facsimile of Loudon’s final book, because the original edition was printed in tiny letters and on poor quality paper. This, by contrast, is a very finely produced publication, slightly enlarged, clear and sharp, and between cloth covers with gold foil blocking.
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Pub Date : 2021-07-02DOI: 10.1017/S000358152100007X
C. Steer
flection of his own likeness in the description he gives to his Host. Gone are conventions of humble deference or presentation to a superiority that qualify much medieval vernacular writing and representation of authors. Writing has, so to speak, become gentrified and the author authoritative. However, had this plausible trajectory been in some measure anticipated? For I could wish Drimmer had felt able to include discussion of the flamboyant frontispiece to Troilus and Crisyede in the early fifteenth-century Corpus Christi College, Cambridge, MS . Some claimed this lovely, enigmatic, picture shows Chaucer reading to a courtly audience, and attempts have been made to identify others in the picture. Whatever the truth of that – the picture is certainly not journalism – Chaucer is shown speaking (or performing, if you prefer) in the authority position of a pulpit. That interesting sidelight on the discussion does not sit wholly happily with the case made for the indeterminacy of authorial status in the early s, but this expensive picture certainly does indicate the illuminator’s importance. This MS was a very high-status object: someone important valued Chaucer’s work very highly. Yet the MS is unfinished: spaces were left for illuminations that were never executed – eighty in all, and eight initials, were planned – and these spaces often correspond to marginal notes in other MSS. Drimmer then explores with equal resourcefulness how Gower and Lydgate were handled. They, with Chaucer, constitute the authors ‘everyone must know’ by the late s (if Skelton, who knew everybody, and was Henry VIII’s tutor while that prince was still a promising lad, is anything to go by). Part of her book, stressing her argument that illuminators were integral to English verse’s rising prestige, examines how Lydgate’s works were presented as both contemporary commentary and as future history. Moreover, she has a persuasive discussion of how the narrative illuminations in Gower’s Confessio Amantis in New York, Pierpont Morgan MS M (of c ), re-present that wonderful poem (a subtle multi-voiced Mirror for Princes as well as a profound meditation on change and time) as highly specific to Edward IV during the Wars of the Roses – indeed, as diagnostic and prophetic. Here, the long-dead author’s work is doing things of which he could never have thought – though he might have approved. She closes with discussion of an issue that has lurked on the sidelines of her whole argument: if illustrators/illustrations were central to English verse’s rising prestige, why were there no illustrations to the tales in Canterbury Tales? She suggests, in effect, that the tradition begun by Ellesmere of prefacing each tale with an image of the pilgrim set up a reflexive dynamic between tale and ostensible teller that might be prejudiced by foregrounding events in the narrative. Whether Chaucer ever wanted this quasi-psychological relationship of tale to teller seriously to qual
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Pub Date : 2021-06-21DOI: 10.1017/S0003581521000093
John Collis
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Pub Date : 2021-06-10DOI: 10.1017/S000358152100010X
A. Fitzpatrick
those at Balkh and Samarkand. Timurid architecture made extensive use of the double dome, achieving a harmony between the ceiling of the room below and the curve of the outer dome. Perfection was achieved with the use of polychrome tile decorations on a background of unglazed bricks. The minor arts, sculpture, painting in manuscripts, bookbinding and calligraphy flourished. While the Gazetteer confines itself to sites within the borders of Afghanistan, Archaeology ranges freely across adjacent regions to provide an overview of changing alliances with the adjacent civilisations. It was not only dynasties that changed with alarming frequency, but also the religions promoted by them. Both Buddhism and Islam had a major impact on the art, culture and architecture of this mountainous country. These excellent volumes will be treasured as an impressive and invaluable record of the present state of knowledge of this war-torn country.
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Pub Date : 2021-06-10DOI: 10.1017/S0003581521000123
Niccolò Mugnai
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Pub Date : 2021-06-10DOI: 10.1017/S0003581521000147
Sophie Oosterwijk
glossary demystifies the necessary technical terms in straightforward language. England’s Cathedrals is an attractively produced book, with plenty of apposite colour illustrations embedded in the text, and its generous provision of maps and plans is effectively used to advance the argument. Its modest price will help it reach the wide audience it deserves. Authoritative and balanced, England’s Cathedrals is thorough and well-researched. Its greatest strength is the context it provides by surveying cathedrals over the long durée. It dispels the widespread assumption that cathedrals are essentially ‘medieval’ by showing how they have been shaped by other periods in their long history. In tracing this history, the author emphasises continuity, survival and adaptation. He writes from a broadly Protestant perspective, but is respectful and deeply understanding of the medieval past. This is a sympathetic and insightful account, though the author’s admiration of and affection for cathedrals is not uncritical. He has done cathedrals a huge service. Readers of England’s Cathedrals will find their subsequent visits to them greatly enriched.
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