A Pair of Latchets Drawn by Du Noyer in 1839 (original) (raw)
Bodleian Library, MS. Don. e. 250. The Binding
Oxford German Studies, 2017
This article presents the binding description for a manuscript acquired in 2016 by the Bodleian Library, Oxford. The manuscript has a late fifteenth-century binding sewn with a chainstitch structure and the article compares it to previously published examples, and describes the range of materials and techniques used by its binder.
The reverse Engineering of Anglo-Saxon beaded wires
2011
Gold openwork pendant containing shallow groove, conoid and spherical forms. West Dereham Ring (isolated find) Conoid, spherical and lenticular finds ©Dennis Riley, 2011 Gold ring, Now in the Ashmolean museum (no other information) Lenticular and spherical forms. Kenninghall, Norfolk 6 th C (no further information) Silver wrist clasp-hook and eye, lenticular bead.
Architectural Theory Review
In the 1960s, with western narratives of technical progress at their height, Robert Matthew, then president of the Royal Institute of British Architects, and anthropologist André Leroi-Gourhan independently advocated totalising, systematic, technical models of human progress. Each model a reflection of the aims and methods of their own discipline: for the anthropologist, the evolution of Homo sapiens from Homo faber and the dissolving of human/technological boundaries; for the architect, a "collective welfare-socialism" and the systematisation of its built manifestations. Each of these models made manifest, I argue, through profoundly influential diagrams. Leroi-Gourhan's chaîne opératoire describes the manufacture of prehistoric stone tools whilst the RIBA's Plan of Work describes the design and construction of buildings. Through the embodied objects and processes of these diagrams this paper sees "chaîne" and "Plan" engaging in a kind of reciprocating exchange: a diagrammed conversation revealing, for each discipline, processes occluded or overlooked in the other.
ARTEFACTS OF INTEREST (various notes)
The Coat of Arms, 2012
In what is hoped to be the first of a continuing series, we list here a short selection of small finds of heraldic or related interest recently reported under the terms of the Treasure Act 1996 or the Portable Antiquities Scheme. All the objects were found by metal-detectorists; most will be (and some already are) listed on line in the PAS database at www.finds.org.uk; these are ascribed a unique PAS number. Objects found to be treasure have a T number prefixed by the year in which they were declared. All the items in this initial list (save one) were found in Norfolk and accordingly have a Norfolk Historic Environment Database number (NHER) which identifies the site at which they were found in the on-line database at www.heritage.norfolk.gov.uk. The editors are grateful to Steven Ashley for his assistance in the preparation of this list.
An Anglo-Saxon silver strap-end, found in 2019, is a common artefact-type but, unusually, this one also contains an inscribed runic text utilising the relatively common Old English maker formula 'N made this.' However one graph, obscured by deterioration on the surface of the metal, as well as by idiosyncrasies in the orthography, poses intriguing challenges to interpretation. We discuss various possibilities and alternative suggestions, and report on a technologically-aided attempt to uncover a crucial rune that is obscured by corrosion.