On the Witham Bowl

Graham‐Campbell, James

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“…In the course of the 8th century hanging bowls were certainly made in the Anglo-Saxon idiom for local patrons, as the lost silver Witham bowl spectacularly demonstrated, and the recent hooked mount from Barningham in Suffolk confi rms, but the Flixborough enamel is in an earlier tradition where enamel was used extensively (for the River Witham bowl, see Bruce-Mitford 1993, 26, pl. 9; Graham-Campbell 2004. For the Suffolk mount, see Martin et al 1996, 457, fi g. 99e).…”

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Life and Economy at Early Medieval Flixborough, c. AD 600-1000

2019

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Chapter 1 1.1Copper alloy and silver safety-pin brooches. Scale 1:1. 1.2Great square-headed brooch, small-long brooch, disc brooch and annular brooch. Scale 1:1. 1.3 Iron brooches. Scale 1:1. 1.4 Copper alloy strap-ends. Scale 1:1. 1.5 Detail of decoration on strap end no. 66, RF 552. Scale 2:1. [Drawing by Lisa Humphrey, British Museum] 1.6Tin-plated iron strap-ends. Scale 1:1. 1.7Copper alloy and silver hooked tags. Scale 1:1. 1.8Iron hooked tags. Scale 1:1. 1.9Copper alloy buckles and buckle plate. Scale 1:1. 1.10 Copper alloy suspension loops and suspension rings, and iron buckles and belt fi ttings. Scale 1:1. 1.11 Iron belt slide, silver and copper alloy fi nger-rings, arm-rings or bracelets, twisted wire ring, pendants, and a wooden bead. Scale 1:1. 1.12 Copper alloy tweezers and ear scoop, and an iron fl eam. Scale 1:1. 1.13 Non-ferrous pins by type. 1.14 Typed non-ferrous pins by type and period. 1.15 Iron pins by type. 1.16 All iron pins by period. 1.17 Bone pins by period. 1.18 Comparative dimensions of complete pins of Types 1-5. 1.19 Pin Types 1-3 and shank forms. 1.20 Pin types 4 and 5 and shank forms. 1.21 Non-ferrous pin types 1-5 by period. 1.22 Silver and gilt pins by period.

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Life and Economy at Early Medieval Flixborough, c. AD 600-1000

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Drawings of Antiquities in the Society's Albums c 1750–1860

Lewis¹

2007

Antiq. J.

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Now that the cataloguing and digitization of the drawings of archaeological artefacts in the Society's albums is nearing completion, an overview of a few of the highlights can be offered to illustrate the range of material and the way it has been used by scholars in recent years to reassess the provenance and significance of some of the most important finds of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The role of the Society and its artists in producing this archive is considered with reference to the Minutes of the Council.

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The Waning Sword

Pettit¹

2020

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The image of a giant sword melting stands at the structural and thematic heart of the Old English heroic poem Beowulf. This meticulously researched book investigates the nature and significance of this golden-hilted weapon and its likely relatives within Beowulf and beyond, drawing on the fields of Old English and Old Norse language and literature, liturgy, archaeology, astronomy, folklore and comparative mythology. In Part I, Pettit explores the complex of connotations surrounding this image (from icicles to candles and crosses) by examining a range of medieval sources, and argues that the giant sword may function as a visual motif in which pre-Christian Germanic concepts and prominent Christian symbols coalesce. In Part II, Pettit investigates the broader Germanic background to this image, especially in relation to the god Ing/Yngvi-Freyr, and explores the capacity of myths to recur and endure across time. Drawing on an eclectic range of narrative and linguistic evidence from Northern European texts, and on archaeological discoveries, Pettit suggests that the image of the giant sword, and the characters and events associated with it, may reflect an elemental struggle between the sun and the moon, articulated through an underlying myth about the theft and repossession of sunlight. The Waning Sword: Conversion Imagery and Celestial Myth in 'Beowulf' is a welcome contribution to the overlapping fields of Beowulf-scholarship, Old Norse-Icelandic literature and Germanic philology. Not only does it present a wealth of new readings that shed light on the craft of the Beowulf-poet and inform our understanding of the poem’s major episodes and themes; it further highlights the merits of adopting an interdisciplinary approach alongside a comparative vantage point. As such, The Waning Sword will be compelling reading for Beowulf-scholars and for a wider audience of medievalists.

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On the Witham Bowl

Cited by 20 publications

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Life and Economy at Early Medieval Flixborough, c. AD 600-1000

Life and Economy at Early Medieval Flixborough, c. AD 600-1000

Drawings of Antiquities in the Society's Albums c 1750–1860

The Waning Sword

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