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Abstract
This section of the journal comprises two core sets of reports linked to work in 2016: finds and analyses relating to the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) and 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 2016. For MB&I, see below for the format and content of the Fieldwork Highlights section and for contact details of the compilers. Annual Specialist Groups Reports appear in the Society’s Newsletter.
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2 Full details of all finds recorded by PAS can be found on the Scheme’s website: < https://finds.org.uk/database>
3 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 (<https://finds.org.uk/publications>).
4 As of 31 December 2016.
5 See Allen et al Citationforthcoming 2017 for a full breakdown of this numismatic data. For the purposes of this round-up coin finds include all medieval rulers up to and including Henry VII (1485–1509).
6 Many thanks must go to the Finds Liaison Officers (FLOs), volunteers and specialists for their hard work in identifying and recording the thousands of medieval objects brought to the PAS every year, as well as providing broader context for many of our finds. This round-up would not have been possible without their expertise and input into the individual records which are discussed. Additional thanks to Ian Richardson for his help and advice regarding last year’s Treasure cases, and to Michael Lewis and Kevin Leahy for their comments on the text. Any errors remain the responsibility of individual authors.
7 Williams Citation2010, tabs 1–5, notes only three finds of early medieval gold coinage dating to the 5th–7th centuries from Nottinghamshire.
8 The other two are LON-1C22F5 (see Naylor Citation2010, 383–4) and SUR-5B13A4 (see Naylor Citation2012, 302).
9 One further coin was deemed to be a modern loss (LVPL-59E617).
10 Grierson and Blackburn Citation1986, 81–154.
11 It is likely to have been minted in the Netherlands, although Op den Velde and Metcalf (Citation2003, 152–5) have speculated that it may be an English variety broadly copying the continental type.
12 The other two are recorded at EMC 2003.0219 and EMC 2016.0143.
13 Gannon Citation2003, 134–5.
14 Higham and Ryan Citation2013, 239–41.
15 Naylor and Richards Citation2010.
16 The obverse of the coin appears to be a die duplicate of a coin of Naismith type 12.3 held by the British Museum (Naismith Citation2016, pl 45 no 1074), while the reverse is of Naismith type 12.2 (Naismith Citation2016, pl 45 nos 1072–3).
17 Adjacent to the parish at Hayle which was discussed last year — see Naylor Citation2016, 353.
18 Mack Citation1966 remains the standard text on coinage of this period.
19 Ibid, 80–2, no 221.
20 Lord Stewartby Citation2009, 61–2. An earlier coin of John as Lord of Ireland only was recorded in 2010 (SUR-6F7462).
21 Cook et al Citation1998, 96.
22 Allen Citation2012, 97.
23 Kemp Citation1990.
24 Porteus Citation1969, 143–50.
25 Mayhew Citation1982, 12–9; North Citation1995.
26 Daubney Citation2009.
27 Behr Citation2010; the other example can be found at LEIC-1E63A8.
28 My thanks to Kevin Leahy for discussing this object. See also Hines Citation1997, 161–70.
29 Leahy Citation2015, fig 7; Geake Citation1997, map 9.
30 Boyle et al Citation1998.
31 British Museum online collection accession numbers 1862,0212.8 (Morden) and 1939,1010.112 (Sutton Hoo). <https://www.britishmuseum.org/research/collection_online/search.aspx> [accessed 6 June 2017].
32 This is on top of 1,252 sherds (21.48 kg) recorded previously.
33 Nothing is listed in Blinkhorn Citation2012 for this parish.
34 Lewis Citation2014, 77. With thanks to Andrew Rogerson for discussing the site.
35 For example on folio 29r.
36 Another was found on the Isle of Wight (IOW-469859), although its date is less certain.
37 Cowgill Citation2009, fig 7.11.
38 Blair Citation2010, 160–1; Cowgill Citation2009, 270–3.
39 Naylor Citation2015, 134–6.
40 Haldenby and Kershaw Citation2014, 113.
41 Ibid, 117–8.
42 Thomas Citation2004, 4, no 37.
43 See SWYOR-1E1716 and HAMP-282E77. A similar example to SUR-61B761 was found at Hankerton (Wiltshire; WILT-B18A63) in 2009.
44 Rogerson and Ashley Citation2011.
45 No parallels are listed in, for instance, Spencer Citation1990 and Citation1998; Mitchiner Citation1986.
46 Spencer Citation1998, 24–31.
47 Eg Spencer Citation1998, nos 63, 63A and 64.
48 My thanks to Michael Lewis for this suggestion. See, for example, Spencer Citation1998, 175–7, no 196b.
49 Ibid, 89.
50 Cherry Citation2001, 41–2.
51 Lewis Citation2012.
52 As of 31 December 2016.
53 Henig Citation2008 provides an overview of the reuse of Roman gemstones and intaglios.
54 We are very grateful to Robert Webley who informed us, after this note was completed, of three examples of Type 2 mounts from excavations at Der Altenburg bei Füllinsdorf near Basel, Switzerland, with two from contexts dated to the second half of the 11th century. Six other examples from Germany and the Netherlands were cited and their use as saddle mounts was posited (Marti et al Citation2013, 146–9, figs 194, 197 and 200–1).
55 Martin et al Citation1995, 340–1, fig 78 D.
56 Ashley Citation2002, figs 15 and 18.
57 Martin et al Citation1995, 341.
58 Williams Citation1997, fig 4.
59 There were 889 records of ‘stirrup-strap mounts’ on the PAS database as of 1 December 2016.
60 Ashley et al Citation1991, 228.
61 Thanks go to Marian Campbell and John Naylor for their comments on this note. I am also grateful to Eljas Oksanen for helping with the geographic data, and Martin Newman and Neil Guiden (Historic England) for providing the data relating to medieval churches. All maps were created by the author using PAS and Historic England data.
62 For a fine T-shaped mount from a processional cross excavated at Haughmond Abbey, Shropshire, see Blair and Campbell Citation2014, 300–1. Many such enamels remain unpublished. Marian Campbell (Citationforthcoming 2017) is compiling a gazetteer of Limoges enamels scattered in English museum and church collections, but only those from an archaeological context, or with likely pre-Dissolution English provenances. Entitled Limoges Enamels in Medieval England, the project recently received funding from the Aurelius Trust.
63 Lewis Citation2012; Citation2015.
64 Access date: 31 October 2016.
65 Examples include a buckle and plate from Bladock (Hertfordshire; BH-46E5F7), a buckle plate from Woodbastwick (Norfolk; NMS-AE7E18) and a harness pendant from West Clandon (Surrey; SUR-034823).
66 Lewis Citation2015, 2.
67 Lewis Citation2012, 314.
68 Lewis Citation2016, 36.
69 Lewis Citation2015, 14–5.
70 Duffy Citation2005, 406–08.
71 Hayman Citation2015, 51–6 and 63–5.
72 Robbins Citation2014, 57.
73 Boehm Citation1996, 43.
74 <https://norfolkchurchestrust.org.uk> [accessed 28 August 2017].