Ancient Peoples and Places THE ANGLO- SAXONS General Editor DR GLYN DANIEL Ancient Peoples and Places THE ANGLO- SAXO NS D. M. Wilson 79 PHOTOGRAPHS 37 LINE DRAWINGS FREDERICK A. PRAEGER PUBLISHER BOOKS THAT MATTER M UNIVERSITY PLACE • NEW YORK I. N. Y. THIS IS VOLUME SIXTEEN INTHE SERIES Ancient Peoples and Plates CENERAL EDITOR: DR CLYN DANIEL I PERU 9 WESSEX BEFORE C. H. S. Bushnell THE CELTS 1 THE SCYTHIANS J. F. S. Stone T. Talbot Rice 10 JAPAN BEFORE J SICILY BEFORE BUDDHISM THE CREEKS J. Edward Kidder Jr L. Bemabo Brea 11 MALTA 4 DENMARK BEFORE J. D. Evans THE VIKINGS O. Klindt'Jensen 12 EARLY INDIA AND PAKISTAN J TSH. E LOW COUNTJR.DIEeSLaet Sir Mortimer Wheeler 6 THE CELTS 1} BRITTANY T. C. E. Powell P. R. Ciot 7 THE ETRUSCANS 14 EAST ANCLIA Raymond Bloch R. Rainbird Clarke 8 EARLY CHRISTIAN 15 THE ORIGINS OF IRELAND ROME Miire and Liam de Poor Raymond Bloch ©THAMES AND HUDSON, LONDON, I960 PRINTED IN GREAT BRITAIN BY THOMAS FORMAN AND SONS LTD NOTTINGHAM NOT TO BE IMPORTED FOR SALE INTO THE U.S.A. CONTENTS LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 6 FOREWORD II introduction: the study of ANGLO-SAXON ARCHAEOLOGY 13 I HISTORICAL BACKGROUND AND PAGAN BURIALS 29 II CHRISTIAN ANTIQUITIES $i III THE LIFE OF THE PEOPLE 71 IV WEAPONS AND WARFARE 104 V ANGLO-SAXON ART 132 SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY 16$ SOURCES OF ILLUSTRATIONS 170 THE PLATES 173 NOTES ON THE PLATES 213 INDEX “4 ILLUSTRATIONS PLATES Jewelled clasp from Sutton Hoo 2 Dismantled jewelled mounts from the Sutton Hoo sword 3 Two silver dishes from Sutton Hoo 4 Jewelled gold buckle from Sutton Hoo J Jewelled gold strap-distributor from Sutton Hoo 6 Jewelled gold buckle from Sutton Hoo 7 The great gold buckle from Sunon Hoo 8 The Sutton Hoo helmet 9 The Sunon Hoo purse-lid 10 Terminal of the Sunon Hoo whetstone II Fish from a Sutton Hoo hanging-bowl 12 Tower of Earls Barton church, Northants U Interior of Escomb church, Co. Durham 14 Apse of Wing church, Bucks IJ Church of St Lawrence, Bradfords tv Avon, Wilts 16 Süva-mounted portable altar 17 The Trewhiddle chalice l8 Plates from a house-shaped shrine 19 Anglo-Saxon silva pennia Croup of cruciform broocha
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