Early Anglo-Saxon Christian reliquaries

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This volume presents a corpus and discussion of seventy-one Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy containers from forty-nine sites across England dating to the seventh and possibly eighth centuries, and variously described as work boxes, needle cases, amulet containers or Christian reliquaries.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: GIBSON, ANTHONY
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [S.l.] : ARCHAEOPRESS, 2022.
Temas:
Reliquaries > England.
Civilization, Anglo-Saxon.
Christian art and symbolism > England.
Reliquaires > Angleterre.
Civilisation anglo-saxonne.
Antiquities.
Christian art and symbolism.
Reliquaries.
Great Britain > Antiquities.
England.
Great Britain.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Information
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Figure 1. Type I Harford Farm reconstruction after Penn, K, 2000.
  • Figure 2. Type I design principles
  • Figure 3. Type I assembly features
  • Figure 4. Type I and II techniques used for attaching lid top and body base (a) rivets, (b) flange and solder, (c) convex and solder, (d) material clenching
  • Figure 5. Type I general arrangement when worn
  • Figure 6. Aldborough (Yorkshire) unusual box with unfinished cruciform on body base
  • Figure 7. Ascot-under-Wychwood (Oxfordshire) Type I base assembly with impressive Style II incised iconography
  • Figure 8. Ashmolean Museum (Oxford) Type I, unprovenanced
  • Figure 9. Dover Painted House (Kent) Type I after Philp 2003, base assembly with angled stop ridge, body decorated with chevron, cross saltire and diamond pattern
  • Plate 1. Harford Farm (Norfolk) Type I after Penn 2000, reconstruction Tony Gibson and Peter Grey
  • Plate 2. Hawnby (Yorkshire) Type I, reconstruction Tony Gibson
  • Figure 10. Polhill (Kent) Grave 43 Type I after Philp 2003, with raised stop ridge. Lid ring and body repoussé decorated in curvaceous Salin Style II, lid top and body base with equal arm Latin cross
  • Figure 11. Verulamium (Hertfordshire) Grave 21 Type I after Ager 1989, artistically decorated suggestive of Style II
  • Figure 12. Wolverton (Buckinghamshire) Grave 2168 after PAS BUC-337D72, Type I with runes and hinged lid
  • Figure 13. North Leigh (Oxfordshire) Type II with repoussé body and incised lid top decorations
  • Figure 14. Suspension Flange Type II [a] Stanlow [b] Dover Buckland Grave 102 [c] Sibertswold Grave 80 [d] North Leigh [e] Burwell Grave 42 [f] Cuxton Grave 306 (iconography exaggerated) [g] St Mary's Stadium Grave 4202
  • Figure 15. Burwell (Cambridgeshire) Grave 42 [a] Type II most highly decorated of all Types of boxes [b] lid top and body base decorated with die stamped reconstruction of the Beowulf Dragon Fight?
  • Figure 16. Burwell Village (Suffolk) Incomplete Type II decorative flange
  • Figure 17a. Cuxton (Kent) Grave 306 Type II after Blackmore et al. Incised iconography on hill very faintly scratched on original , exaggerated for illustration
  • Figure 17b. Cuxton (Kent) Grave 306 Type II after Blackmore et al. Incised iconography on hill very faintly scratched on original , exaggerated for illustration
  • Plate 3. Dover Buckland Grave 107 Type II after Evison 1987
  • Figure 18. North Leigh (Oxfordshire) Type II, lid top with incised decoration, body block type repoussé similar to that on a Type I box from Verulamium (Hertfordshire) Grave 21

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