672
Views
0
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Research Article

Heirlooms Under-‘Cover’: Identifying Curated Swords and Scabbards Deposited in Early Medieval Burials

BIBLIOGRAPHY

  • Aannestad, H L 2018, ‘Charisma, violence and weapons: The broken swords of the Vikings’, in M Vedeler, I M Røstad, E S Kristoffersen (eds), Charismatic Objects: From Roman Times to the Middle Ages, Oslo: Cappelen Damm AS.
  • Ager, B M 2012, ‘Swords’, in K Parfitt and T Anderson (eds), Buckland Anglo-Saxon Cemetery, Ashford: Canterbury Archaeological Trust, 49–52.
  • Ager, B M, Cameron, E, Riddler, I et al 2006, Early Anglo-Saxon Weaponry from Saltwood Tunnel, CTRL Specialist Report Series. London: London and Continental Railways Oxford Wessex Archaeology Joint Venture.
  • Annable, F K, Eagles, B N and Ager, B 2010, The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Blacknall Field, Pewsey, Wiltshire, Wiltshire Archaeol Nat Hist Soc, Trowbridge: Cromwell Press.
  • Appadurai, A 1986, The Social Life of Things; Commodities in Cultural Perspective, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Arnold, C J 1997, An Archaeology of Early Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms, 2nd edn,. London: Routledge.
  • Bayliss, A and Hines, J 2013, Anglo-Saxon Graves and Grave Goods of the 6th and 7th Centuries AD: A Chronological Framework, Wakefield: Society for Medieval Archaeology.
  • Bazelmans, J 1999, By Weapons Made Worthy, Amsterdam: University of Amsterdam.
  • Behmer, E 1939, Das zweischneidige Schwert der germanischen Völkerwanderungszeit (Unpublished PhD Thesis, Stockholm University). Stockholm: Tryckeriaktiebolaget Svea.
  • Blackmore, L, Blair, I and Hirst, S 2019, The Prittlewell Princely Burial: Excavations at Priory Crescent, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, 2003, London: MOLA.
  • Brown, G B 1915, The Arts in Early England: Vol 3 Saxon Art and Industry in the Pagan Period, New York: Dutton.
  • Brunning, S 2019, The Sword in Early Medieval Europe. Experience, Identity, Representation, Woodbridge: Boydell Press.
  • Cameron, E 2000, Sheaths and Scabbards in England ad 400–1100, Oxford, British Archaeological Report B301.
  • Caple, C 2006, Objects: Reluctant Witnesses to the Past, Abingdon: Routledge.
  • Carver, M 2000, ‘Burial as poetry: The context of treasure in Anglo-Saxon graves’, in E M Tyler (ed), Treasure in the Medieval West, York: York Medieval Press, 25–48.
  • Costello, B 2020, The Heirloom Factor Revisited: Curated Objects and Social Memory in Early Medieval Mortuary Practices (unpublished PhD Thesis, University of Chester).
  • Costello, B and Williams, H 2019, ‘Rethinking early medieval heirlooms’, in M Knight, D Boughton and R Wilkinson (eds), Objects of the past in the past: Investigating the Significance of Earlier Artefacts in Later Contexts, Oxford: Archaeopress, 115–30.
  • Davidson, H E 1962, The Sword in Anglo-Saxon England: Its Archaeology and Literature, Woodbridge: Boydell Press.
  • Devlin, Z 2007, Remembering the Dead in Anglo-Saxon England: Memory Theory in Archaeology and History, Oxford: Archaeopress.
  • Dickinson, T M 1977, The Anglo-Saxon Burial Sites of the Upper Thames Region, and their Bearing on the History of Wessex, Circa ad 400–700 (unpublished PhD Thesis, University of Oxford).
  • Evison, V I 1967, ‘The Dover ring-sword and other sword-rings and beads’, Archaeologia 101, 63–118.
  • Evison, V I 1987, Dover: The Buckland Anglo-Saxon Cemetery, London: Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England.
  • Fern, C, Dickinson, T and Webster, L 2019, The Staffordshire Hoard: An Anglo-Saxon Treasure, London: Society of Antiquaries of London.
  • Filmer-Sankey, W and Pestell, T 2001, Snape Anglo-Saxon Cemetery: Excavations and Surveys 1824–1992, Ipswich: Environment and Transport, Suffolk County Council.
  • Fischer, S and Soulat, S 2011, ‘The typochronology of sword pommels from the Staffordshire Hoard’, in Papers from the Staffordshire Hoard Symposium, London: British Museum.
  • Fischer, S, Soulat, S and Fischer, T 2013, ‘Sword parts and their depositional contexts-symbols in migration and merovingian period martial society’, Fornvännen 108:2, 109–22.
  • Fleming, R 2010, Britain after Rome: The Fall and Rise, 400 to 1070, London: Penguin.
  • Gilchrist, R 2013, ‘The materiality of medieval heirlooms: from sacred to biographical objects’, in H P Hahn and H Weiss (eds), Mobility, Meaning and Transformation of Things. Shifting Contexts of Material Culture through Time and Space, Oxford: Oxbow Books, 170–82.
  • Gilmour, B 2007, ‘Swords, seaxes, and Saxons: Pattern-welding and edged weapon technology from late Roman Britain to Anglo-Saxon England’, in M Henig and J T Smith (eds), Collectanea Antiqua: Essays in Memory of Sonia Chadwick Hawkes, Oxford, British Archaeological Report 1673.
  • Gilmour, B 2010, ‘Ethnic identity and the origins, purpose and occurrence of pattern-welded swords in sixth-century Kent: The case of the Saltwood cemetery’, in M Henig and N Ramsey (eds), The Archaeology and History of Christianity in England, 400–1200: Papers in Honour of Martin Biddle and Birthe Kjølbye-Biddle, Oxford, British Archaeological Report 505.
  • Gosden, C and Marshall, Y 1999, ‘The cultural biography of objects’, World Archaeology 31, 169–78.
  • Gretzinger, J, Sayer, D, Justeau, P et al 2022, ‘The Anglo-Saxon migration and the formation of the early English gene pool’, Nature 610:7930, 112–9.
  • Halsall, G 1995, Early Medieval Cemeteries: An Introduction to Burial Archaeology in the Post-Roman West, Skelmorlie: Cruithne Press.
  • Halsall, G 2002, Settlement and Social Organization: The Merovingian Region of Metz, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Härke, H 1989, ‘Early Saxon weapon burials: frequencies, distributions and weapon combinations’, in S C Hawkes (ed), Weapons and Warfare in Anglo-Saxon England, Oxford: Oxbow, 49–61.
  • Härke, H 1997, ‘The nature of burial data’, in C K Jensen and K Hoilund Nielsen (eds), Burial and Society. The Chronological and Social Analysis of Archaeological Burial Data, Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 19–28.
  • Härke, H 2000, ‘The circulation of weapons in Anglo-Saxon society,’ in Rituals of Power: From Antiquity to the Early Medieval Ages, Leiden: Brill, 8, 377–99.
  • Hawkes, S C and Page, R I 1967, ‘Swords and runes in South-East England’, Antiq J, 48, 1–26.
  • Hills, C and Lucy, S 2013, Spong Hill, Cambridge: McDonald Institute.
  • Holtorf, C 2008, ‘The life history approach to monuments: an obituary?’, in J Goldhahn (ed), Kalmar Studies in Archaeology 4, 411–27.
  • Klevnäs, A M 2013, Whodunnit?: Grave Robbery in Anglo-Saxon England and the Merovingian Kingdoms, Oxford: Archaeopress.
  • Klevnäs, A M 2015, ‘Give and take: grave goods and grave robbery in the Early Middle Ages’, in A Klevnäs and C Hederstierna-Jonson (eds), Owned and Be Owned; Archaeological Approaches to the Concept of Possession, Stockholm Studies in Archaeology 62, 157–88.
  • Koch, U 2001, Das Alamannisch-Fränkische Gräberfeld bei Pleidelsheim, Forschungen und Berichte zur Vor- und Fruhgeschichte in Baden-Wurttemberg 60, Stuttgart: Kommissionsverlag, K Theiss.
  • Komter, A 2001, ‘Heirlooms, Nikes and bribes: Towards a sociology of things’, Sociology, 35, 59–75.
  • Kopytoff, I 1986, ‘The cultural biography of things: Commoditization as process’, in Appadurai, 64–91.
  • Kristoffersen, S 1999, ‘Swords and brooches. Constructing social identity’, in M Rundkvist (ed), Grave Matters. Eight Studies of First Millennium ad Burials in Crimea, England and Southern Scandinavia, British Archaeological Report, International Series 781, 94–114.
  • Lillios, K 1999, ‘Objects of memory: The ethnography and archaeology of heirlooms’, Journal of Archaeology, Method and Theory 6, 235–62.
  • Lucy, S 2000, The Anglo-Saxon Way of Death: Burial Rites in Early, England, Stroud: Sutton.
  • Lucy, S J 1997, ‘Housewives, warriors and slaves? Sex and gender in Anglo-Saxon burials’, in J Moore and E Scott (eds), Invisible People and Processes: Writing Gender and Childhood into European Archaeology, London: Leicester University Press, 150–68.
  • Mauss, M 1954, The Gift: Forms and Functions of Exchange in Archaic Society, London: Cohen and West.
  • Menghin, W 1983, ‘Das Schwert im frühen Mittelalter’, Chronologisch-typologische Untersuchungen zu Langschwertern aus germanischen Gräbern des, 5, 7.
  • Mortimer, P and Bunker, M 2019, The Sword in Anglo-Saxon England from the 5th to 7th Century, Little Downham: Anglo-Saxon Books.
  • Noterman, A 2021, Approche archéologique des réouvertures de sépultures merovingiennes dans le Nord de la France (VI-VIII siècle), Oxford, British Archaeological Report 3065.
  • O'Connor, S, Solazzo, C and Collins, M 2015, ‘Advances in identifying archaeological traces of horn and other keratinous hard tissues’, Stud Conserv 60:6, 393–417.
  • Oliver, L 2002, The Beginnings of English Law, Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
  • Parfitt, K and Anderson, T 2012, Buckland Anglo-Saxon Cemetery, Dover: Excavations, Vol 6, Canterbury: Canterbury Archaeology Trust.
  • Reilly, S. A 2004, Our Legal Heritage: The First Thousand Years: 600–1600, 5th edn, Project Gutenberg.
  • Riddler, I and Trevarthen, M 2006, The Prehistoric, Roman and Anglo-Saxon Funerary Landscape at Saltwood Tunnel, Kent, CTRL integrated site report series, in ADS 2006.
  • Sayer, D 2010, ‘Death and the family’, Journal of Social Archaeology 10, 59–91.
  • Sayer, D 2020, Early Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries: Kinship, Community and Identity, Manchester: Manchester University Press.
  • Sayer, D and Williams, H 2009, ‘Hall of mirrors’: death and identity in medieval archaeology’, in D Sayer and H Williams (eds), Mortuary Practices and Social Identities in the Middle Ages, Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1–22.
  • Sayer, D, Sebo, E and Hughes, K 2019, ‘A double-edged sword: Swords, bodies and personhood in early medieval archaeology and literature’, European Journal Archaeology 22, 1–25.
  • Scull, C 1999, ‘Social archaeology and Anglo-Saxon Kingdom origins’, Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History 10, 17–24.
  • Scull, C 2001, ‘Local and regional identities and processes of state formation in fifth- to seventh- century England: some archaeological problems’, in B Arrhenius (ed), Kingdoms and Regionality: Transactions from the 49th Sachsensymposium in Uppsala, Stockholm: Archaeological Research Laboratory, 121–6.
  • Semple, S 2008, ‘Polities and princes ad 400–800: New perspectives on the funerary landscape of the south Saxon Kingdom’, Oxford Journal of Archaeology 27, 407–29.
  • Skeates, R 1995, ‘Animate objects: a biography of prehistoric ‘axe-amulets’ in the central Mediterranean region’, Proc Prehist Soc 61, 279–301.
  • Steuer, H 1987, ‘Helm und Ringschwert: Prunkbewaffnung und Rangabzeichen germanischer Krieger—eine Ubersicht’, Studien zur Sachsenforschung 6, 189–236.
  • Stoodley, N 1999, The Spindle and the Spear: A Critical Enquiry into the Construction and Meaning of Gender in the Early Anglo-Saxon Burial Rite, Oxford, British Archaeological Report 288.
  • Swanton, M J 1974, A Corpus of Pagan Anglo-Saxon Spear-Types, (Vol. 6). Oxford: British Archaeological Reports.
  • Weiner, A B 1992, Inalienable Possessions: The Paradox of Keeping-While Giving, Berkeley: University of California Press.
  • Welch, M 2007, ‘Anglo-Saxon Kent’, in J Williams (ed), The Archaeology of Kent, Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 187–250.
  • Welch, M 2011, ‘The Mid Saxon ‘Final Phase’’, in H Hamerow, D Hinton and S Crawford (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 266–87.
  • Wessman, A 2007, ‘Reclaiming the past: Using old artefacts as a means of remembering’, in A Šnē and A Vasks (eds), Memory, Society, and Material Culture: Papers from the Third Theoretical Seminar of the Baltic Archaeologists (BASE) Held at the University of Latvia, October 5–6, 2007, Interarchaeologia 3, 71–88.
  • Whitelock, D 1930, Anglo-Saxon Wills, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Whitley, J 2002, ‘Objects with attitude: Biographical facts and fallacies in the study of late Bronze Age and early Iron Age warrior graves’, Cambridge Archaeology Journal, 12, 217–32.
  • Williams, H 2005, ‘Keeping the dead at arm’s length’, Journal Social Archaeology 5, 253–75.
  • Williams, H 2006, Death and Memory in Early Medieval Britain, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.