This report describes the history of a villa from its simple beginnings in the first century AD to its heydayin the 4th century when the owner could boast one of the largest villa bath houses and a bathing pool comparable in size to the Great Bath at Bath. The report is divided into two parts: the excavations and the finds.

The Excavation of the Roman Villa in Gadebridge Park, Hemel Hempstead 1963-8 (ANTIQ-RR)

History

Neal, David S.

Ancient Civilizations

Society of Antiquaries

352p, 26 illus, 161 figs (Society of Antiquaries of London, 1976)

Excavations at Portchester Castle, Vol II: Saxon (ANTIQ-RR)

CUNLIFFE, Barry

Europe

Detailed study and discussion of the pivotal thirteenth century wall-painting.

The Painted Chamber at Westminster

Binski, Paul

Excavations at Fishbourne, 1961-1969, (Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London, no. 26-27)

Cunliffe, Barry W.

Excavations at Portchester I, Roman (ANTIQ-RR)

Kelmscott: An Illustrated Guide

A.R. Dufty

Nearly one-quarter of the males in early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries were buried with a shield, yet shields have not received as much scholarly attention as the less common sword. In this volume Dickinson and Harke combine their individual researches to provide a full discussion of the early Anglo-Saxon shield. It includes a typological framework and addresses the issues of dating and distribution, technology and function, and the place of the shield in Anglo-Saxon burial ritual.

Early Anglo-Saxon Shields (Archaeologia)

Dickinson, Tania

Harke, Heinrich

New studies on manorial domestic buildings in England and northern France has led to a reappraisal of the essential elements of the seigneurial residence: the ground-floor hall, the chamber-block and the first-floor hall. The eight essays in this volume highlight the similarities and differences between the regions, and include contributions by: J Blair (English domestic planning, 1000-1250); P Dixon (The manor-houses of the Anglo-Scottish border); J Munby (Manorial building in timber in central and southern England, 1200-1550); J Decaens (De la motte au chateau de pierre dans le nord et l'est de l'Ile-de-France du XIIe au XVe siecle); E Gautier-Desvaux (Les manoirs du Perche); G Meirion-Jones, M Jones and J R Pilcher (The seigneurial domestic buildings of Brittany, 1000-1700).

Manorial Domestic Buildings in England and Northern France

JONES, MICHAEL

Meirion-Jones, Gwyn

Processional crosses were destroyed in such great numbers at the Reformation that we perhaps forget what an important role they once played in community and liturgical life (as they still do in Brittany, Spain, Portugal and many other parts of Catholic Europe). Tracing the form of the processional cross back to specific ceremonies in the sixth-century Byzantine world, Colum Hourihane shows that they had become 'dallye crosses' by the later Middle Ages, objects indispensable to everyday religious observance. Core to the book is a history of the procession itself which was an occasion for clergy and public to join together in festive community events. Processions came to develop their own liturgical status, separate from other ceremonies, and associated with membership of a professional organization or religious fraternity. Large and well-supported processions accompanied the celebration of saints linked to the parish or the definition of parish boundaries, while others were associated with membership of a professional organization or religious fraternity. As well as recreating this lost world of processions, with all their music, banners and colourful vestments, Colum Hourihane's book also catalogues all the crosses currently known to exist in England, whether in museums, priories or parish churches, from the plainest examples to those that represent craftsmanship and art of the highest order. Iconic of Christ's ultimate sacrifice - his death for our sins upon the Cross - and attributed with miraculous powers, these crosses offer a glimpse of a world in which community, religion and landscape are woven together in a complex tapestry of secular, mythic and religious observance.

The Processional Cross in Late Medieval England: The 'Dallye Cross' (Reports of the Research Committee 71)

Hourihane, Colum

Arts & Photography

Kelmscott Manor Guide Book

CHRISTOPHER CATLING

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