This section of the journal comprises two core sets of reports linked to work in 2013: on finds and analyses relating to the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) and on site-specific discoveries and reports in medieval Britain and Ireland (MB&I), with a selection of highlighted projects. For the PAS report, reviews on coin and non-coin finds and on specific research angles are presented. For MB&I, the Society is most grateful to all contributors (of field units, museums, universities, developers, specialist groups and individuals) who have provided reports on finds, excavations, field-surveys and building analyses for 2013. Note that while we can advise on content, we are not able to abstract from interim reports. Please also note that in certain cases the National Grid Reference has been omitted from reports to protect sites; do notify the compilers if this information is to be withheld. For MB&I, see below for the format and content of the Fieldwork Highlights section and for the contact details of the compilers. The annual Specialist Groups Reports now appear in the Society’s Newsletter.
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1 Heberden Coin Room, Ashmolean Museum, Beaumont Street, Oxford OX1 2PH, UK; [email protected]. My thanks to Helen Geake, Kevin Leahy and Michael Lewis for their comments on parts of the round-up. Any errors remain those of the individual authors.
2 Finds reported via the Treasure Act 1996 are now included on the Portable Antiquities Scheme Database (PASD). PAS and Treasure Annual Reports are free to download (<http://finds.org.uk/treasure/reports>).
3 As of 31 December 2013.
4 See Allen et al forthcoming 2014 for a full breakdown of these numismatic data.
5 <http://finds.org.uk/database>. Thanks and appreciation go to the FLOs (Finds Liaison Officers) and other specialists whose hard work recording and identifying the thousands of medieval coins and other finds is bringing such interesting and important material to light.
20 Another was reported to PAS from Essex in 2009 (ESS-6429D2).
21 The other is from Langthorpe (North Yorkshire; SWYOR-90BD33).
22 The others are from Lincolnshire (LIN-533F47) and Oxfordshire (Cook Citation1999, no 94). A fourth was recorded from Surrey in January 2014 (SUR-C15C33).
27 See comments by Barrie Cook in the database record.
28 Particular thanks go to the following for their invaluable scholarly help with identifications and parallels for objects included here: Barry Ager, Steven Ashley, John Cherry, Kathrin Felder, Catherine Hills, Brian Kemp, Tim Pestell and Andrew Rogerson.
29 Thanks to Dave Roper for providing advice for experiments carried out by PAS staff.
30 Strzygowski 1904, nos 9040–2 and 9052; Tafeln 27, 28 and 37.
31 Richards Citation1980, 51 and 233 lists 17 examples of B1 bowls, and the PAS database has one more (LIN-E7331). The Norfolk HER contains a further two and it is likely that other HERs may record others.
36 Accession number NCM 2013.60, donated by Neil Donmall.
37 One early medieval seal matrix was also recorded in 2013 (SF-BE7CB0) without a precise findspot. Now in the Fitzwilliam Museum (accession number CM.88-2013), it bears the inscription +SIGILLVM ÆLFRICVS and is thought to date from the late 10th century.
38 The Laverstock seal has now been donated to Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum, accession number SSWM 4020. Two seals of Salisbury sub-deans survive on documents in the Cathedral archives.
44 Daubney et al Citation2005 cite three examples, since joined by others including NLM5639, SF-1EADD4, NLM-CA23E3, SWYOR-761334 (with separate bird-shaped mount), SWYOR-346572 and NMS-249246. See Ashley forthcoming for discussion.
45 Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3DZ, UK; [email protected]
58 Williams Citation2005 (IOW-3AD997); Williams Citation2006 (BUC-DC8057); Hayward Trevarthen Citation2001 (SOMDOR500); also noted in Lewis Citation2007, 180, n 61. SF9733 also appears to show a griffin rather than a lion.
59 Class A, Type 4: Williams Citation2009 (SUR-684BD7); Class A, Type 17: Williams Citation2004b (KENT-B18778).
64 New examples: PAS YORYM-8286A3, UKDFD 10085, UKDFD 28477 <www.ukdfd.co.uk> [accessed 5 February 2014], one unpublished (Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter accession number 211/2003); Williams Citation1997, 102–3, nos 494–6.
65 New finds: HAMP3870, KENT-3F8E12, HAMP-F289D6; also Williams Citation1997, 97–8, no 467; Read Citation2001, 7, 10, no 59.
66 Ashley Citation2006, 105–6, no 1 (NMS-977328); WMID-9CF486.
68 See Thomas Citation2001 for similar work on early medieval strap-ends.
69 Williams (Citation1997, 60, 65–7) noted that three ‘poor quality’ examples from the North East with a distinct rendition of the lion may share a common origin (nos 265–7, 265 since recorded as NLM4738). Also: NMS-2F00D2, LIN-A37874, NLM-339290, LIN-9EA0F5, SWYOR-EAD0D2, NCL-76AEA7 (published in Ten Harkel Citation2013, 186, fig 11.8c as a Lincolnshire example), LIN-F9AEB3, LIN-EA2E51, DENO-388E85, LIN-64A357, LIN-F6D795.
71 For discussion of the Urnes style in England, see Kershaw Citation2010, 6; for Urnes style stirrup-strap mounts, see Owen Citation2001, 209. The ‘Romanesque’ leonine pieces classified here as Class B, Type 5 may continue into the 12th century (Ashley Citation2006, 106); Class A, Type 11 mounts may also be of post-Conquest date (Lewis Citation2007), although see Williams (in Lewis et al Citation2011, 254) for a rebuttal. Supporting Lewis’ assertion are Type 11A mounts possibly depicting griffins, winged quadrupeds being more characteristic of ‘Romanesque’ art (Ten Harkel Citation2013, 180).
73 Department of Archaeology, University of York, King’s Manor, York YO1 7EP, UK; [email protected]. The following are thanked for their comments and help: Laura Burnett, David Williams, Letty ten Harkel, John Naylor and Rosie Weetch.
74 Special thanks go to Justine Bayley, Helen Geake, Naomi Speakman, Eleanor Standley and Rob Webley, plus Rosie Weetch, who produced the PAS distribution map, and Georgina Ashcroft, who helped with images of the British Museum mirror case.
75 Standley Citation2008, 198 lists 112 in 2006, of which 61% (68 objects) were recorded by the PAS.
83 It might be expected that this type would be found with an outer border (Type A2a), but no such examples have been recorded through the PAS.
84 One PAS example (NMS-164FC4) has only one divided semi-circle. No examples are found without an outer border (Type A3).
85 Discussed within SF-9EF1C3; contra Bayley et al Citation1984, 401.
86 Justine Bayley, pers comm. See also Mortimer and Stoney Citation1996 for a discussion of decorative punchmarks on early Anglo-Saxon non-ferrous artefacts.
6 All radiocarbon dating was by 14CHRONO Centre for Climate, the Environment, and Chronology at Queen’s University Belfast. All calibrations were carried out in OxCal 4.2 using the IntCal13.14c curve.
44 All excavation works are funded by a grant from the Archaeological Committee of the Royal Irish Academy and works are facilitated by the generosity of the landowners. For links to the Rathnadrinna Research Project see <www.facebook.com/rathnadrinna>.
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