2024-03-29T00:55:47+00:00185810https://finds.org.uk/research/projects/index/format/jsonhttps://finds.org.uk/research/projects/index/format/xmlhttps://finds.org.uk/research/projects/index/format/rsshttps://finds.org.uk/research/projects/index/format/atomhttps://finds.org.uk/research/projects238Pre-conquest sculpture of Cheshire<p>I am currently working on my PhD which will explore the pre-conquest sculpture of Cheshire. The project will go beyond the art-historical approach that has dominated previous work and begin a re-characterization of the regions sculpture through the contextualisation of these monuments within their landscape setting.</p><p>
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<p>This will be achieved through the implementation of an inter-disciplinary approach using toponymic, archaeological, topographical and documentary data. It will consider sculpture as a monument, which is actively involved in the formation and transformation of human relationships, developing a biography of its own and actively altering the place in which it resides. This will allow me look at sculpture that has been moved around, as well as those that remain in-situ.</p><p>
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<p>Through this study I hope to gain an insight in to how sculpture and the landscape were connected. It is hoped that it will illuminate how they were used and perceived during the period 400 - 1100 AD and how this relationship may have transformed over time and in subsequent periods. If the project is successful these conclusions will contribute to our knowledge of Cheshire’s political, social and religious situation.</p>Joanne Kirton3PhD level researchDaniel Pettdejp3@cam.ac.uk56237Deliberately concealed objects in old houses and buildings in the UK and Australia<p>PhD and published research into deliberately concealed objects in old houses and buildings in the UK and Australia. The research will continue for at least another two years. In some cases, I may request permission from property owners to visit sites of finds and to discuss the circumstances of discoveries with owners or finders.</p>Ian Evans3PhD level researchDaniel Pettdejp3@cam.ac.uk56236Study of Iron Age glass beads<p>Glass beads form a facet of material culture in Iron Age Britain previously only considered through classification or scientific analysis, yet a study of these artefacts utilising approaches that explore materiality and identity remains absent. This creates a lacuna that is detrimental to fully comprehending late-prehistoric adornment. The present study will fill that gap through both a study of glass beads and an exploration of a ‘multi-material’ identity constructed by an mélange of objects for the body.</p><p>
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<p>The aim of this project is (1) to take a regional approach to determine if there are discrete patterns in glass bead morphology, deposition and chronology, and (2) to provide a comparative approach between glass beads and other objects of personal adornment such as brooches, armlets and stone beads. This approach will not only re-evaluate our understanding of glass bead dating, typology and manufacturing, but aspires to address further questions, such as the ways in which late-prehistoric people negotiated the world around them through objects and utilised these objects to convey non-verbal statements of identity.</p><p>
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<p>Methodology Prior to data collection, three key regions were identified as being potentially important in terms of the density of beads: the southwest, East Yorkshire, and northeast Scotland. Finally, East Anglia was chosen as a fourth region due to the apparent scarcity of glass beads, which suggests that identity may have been displayed in other ways.</p><p>
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<p>A pilot study (funded by the Rosemary Cramp Fund) of northeast Scotland has already been completed to test the project’s methodology, time requirements, and development of an Access database. This approach makes use of published and unpublished excavation reports as well as museum visits in order to analyse the objects themselves. It has proved successful and will continue to be employed with the addition of Portable Antiquities Scheme data. As this research will form the basis of my PhD dissertation, It is anticipated that this project will be concluded in September 2012.</p><p>
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<p>Outcome Following data collection, it is the intention of this research project to address issues relating to dating and classification of glass beads through a systematic review of the depositional contexts of beads and associated artefacts. The results will be beneficial for all archaeologists that work with late-prehistoric sites. In addition, the research will also produce a comprehensive overview of glass bead morphology including shape, colour and decorative motif. Finally, the project will consider how glass beads were utilised during the Iron Age and their relation to other objects of personal adornment. The culmination of this analysis will result in a thorough and dynamic view of Iron Age society and their expression of identity through the use of objects of personal adornment.</p>2013Elizabeth Schech3PhD level researchDaniel Pettdejp3@cam.ac.uk56232A study of late Hallstatt and early to middle La Tène brooches in Britain<p>Using published and unpublished data from a variety of sources including excavations and the Portable Antiquities Scheme, I am building a database of early and middle Iron Age brooches found in Britain. This will form the basis for a re-evaluation of existing brooch typologies, analysis of brooch form and function, and evaluation of associated deposition practices. It is anticipated that the data will reveal patterns which may exhibit regional variations. These will be studied with the aim of elucidating our understanding of cultural and personal identity in the first millennium BC. This AHRC funded Collaborative Doctoral Award is supervised by Prof. Colin Haselgrove at the University of Leicester and Dr Jody Joy at the British Museum. </p>20092012Sophia Adams3PhD level researchDaniel Pettdejp3@cam.ac.uk56221A Key to Early Anglo-Saxon Identities? Girdle Hangers in 5th and 6th Century England. An Archaeological Contribution to the Anthropological Perspective on Material Culture<p>My PhD study focuses on girdle hangers as a material means of constructing and representing early Anglo-Saxon female identity.</p><p>
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<p>Girdle hangers are an early Anglo Saxon dress accessory of the 5th and 6th centuries. As decorated copper-alloy copies of functional keys, occurring exclusively in a number of wealthier female graves in the Anglian regions, girdle hangers have attracted special attention among scholars. It is commonly assumed that they played a significant role as material symbols of female social, cultural and gender identity, the most prominent being their interpretation as insignia of a woman´s household authority. This rests on a number of written sources from other periods which give clues on the symbolic significance of keys in women´s lives.</p><p>
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<p>Up to the present day, this interpretation has not been the subject of an archaeological analysis, albeit the large number of contextual finds that have been excavated throughout England up to the present day. The purpose of the present PhD study is to provide such analysis. A systematic material and context analysis of girdle hangers based on the early Anglo-Saxon cemetery evidence is needed in order to explore the extent to which the material record itself can provide us with relevant data. Important observations on the finds material itself have been decisively brought forward by the growing number of metal-detected finds recorded through the PAS in recent years. Therefore the data collection will have to include this rich data.</p><p>
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<p>Past approaches to the meaning of girdle hangers have shown that historical evidence does form an important and useful source of information. It provides perspectives that cannot be gained through the evaluation of the material record alone. However, historical and cultural analogies as a method of archaeological knowledge-building have to be critically assessed for their methodological limitations and problems. The existing body of material and historical sources will be integrated into anthropological theoretical concepts which aim to understand the principle mechanisms underlying the assignment of meaning to material culture, such as material agency, material engagement and materialisation. This approach, I believe, has the potential to overcome the methodological limitations which previous approaches entailed. It will allow for a more cohesive, sound interpretation of girdle hangers as material symbols of cultural, social and gender identity. Moreover, it will shed light on the significance of material culture in the structuration and change of early Anglo-Saxon society as a whole, forming an important case study in research on the wider transformation processes of acculturation and societal differentiation in early Anglo-Saxon England.</p><p>
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<p>This PhD research is being conducted at the University of Cambridge, supervised by Dr Catherine Hills (Advisor: Dr Helen Geake).</p>20102013Kathrin Felder3PhD level researchDaniel Pettdejp3@cam.ac.uk56220Iron production during the Roman period<p>I would like to become research user. I previously studied a collection of horse and rider brooches from Leicestershire Museums via PAS and Sally Worrell for my MSc, which I am in process of writing up hopefully for publication. Currently working on PhD at the Institute of Archaeology, UCL, on iron production during the Roman period.</p>Ruth Fillery-Travis3PhD level researchDaniel Pettdejp3@cam.ac.uk56218Dress, Adornment and Identity in Late Iron Age and Roman Britain<p>This is an AHRC funded Collaborative Doctoral Award supervised by Dr Gardner and Ms. Sally Worrell of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London and Dr. Roger Bland of The Department of Portable Antiquities & Treasure at British Museum.</p>
<p>In many preindustrial societies clothing was a form of non-verbal communication and an important mechanism of social control. Yet, in a view that accords well with the long-held image of the Roman Empire as homogenous and static, the traditional perception of Roman clothing was that it was characterised by changelessness over long distances and periods of time (Harte 1976: 155). This is fallacious. Clothing varied across the Empire according not only to the regions climate but the physical environment of the wearer; and it certainly changed over time. It is possible to discern more rapidly evolving ‘fashion trends’ in the accompanying dress accessories, hairstyles and shoe patterns in particular, and as such it is these which may enable us an insight into diverse local cultures and identities which we now recognise as constituting the Roman Empire.</p>
<p>After Roman coins, brooches are the most common metallic type of artefact recorded, and there are now over 13,000 Late Iron Age and Roman brooches from across England and Wales in the PAS database. Increasingly, small finds studies have demonstrated the importance of bodily adornment as a field of social display with great potential in quantitative and spatial analyses (see Creighton 1990; Haselgrove 1997; Swift 2000; Eckardt 2005; Plouviez 2008; Pitts 2010). However, most of these studies have looked at brooches in isolation and few have gone so far as to attempt to assess the chronological and spatial distribution of the less frequently occurring types of personal adornment, such as hair pins, finger-rings and bracelets. Yet it is only when we consider brooch evidence together with details of other objects relating to dress that we can fully understand the mixture of indigenous and imported traditions that resulted in the creation of diverse local cultures and identities (Jundi and Hill 1998). This is precisely what my study will aim to do, with the intention that high-resolution contextual information from key sites will aid interpretation of the PAS material, which in turn will be augmented by the typological and spatial information from the PAS data. </p>20102013Michelle Statton3PhD level researchDaniel Pettdejp3@cam.ac.uk56215A new study of the penannular brooch in Britain<p>This is an AHRC funded Collaborative Doctoral Award supervised by Professor Colin Haselgrove at the University of Leicester and Dr. Roger Bland of The Department of Portable Antiquities & Treasure at British Museum. <br />
Penannular brooches were manufactured and used for an unusually long period of time; from the later Iron Age, into the Roman and Early Medieval periods. Analysis of their distribution and deposition has the potential to shed light on, amongst other things, individual and group identity, regionality, inter-regional interaction and movement, ritual behaviour, and craft production and exchange in each period. However, the long lifespan of this brooch type also makes it a useful tool for generating insights into longer-term developments and continuities over the three periods as a whole. For example the appearance of older curated penannular brooches and copies of earlier types in Early Medieval graves can potentially tell us about the contemporary population’s relationship with the past during this later period.<br />
However, despite this potential, the last (and only) comprehensive survey of penannular brooches was carried out in the late 1950s by Elizabeth Fowler for her BLitt thesis. The typology that she devised remains in use today and more recent studies have been limited, generally only challenging her chronologies and assumptions about the origins of specific types. Yet since Fowler carried out her study many new penannular brooches have been discovered and recorded, largely thanks to the spate of development led excavations that took place post-PPG16 and also to the rise in popularity of metal detecting as a hobby and the formation of the Portable Antiquities Scheme. <br />
The aim of this study, therefore, is to gather together this new evidence in order to carry out the first overall survey of the penannular brooch since Fowler’s original study. The contextual data for each brooch will be recorded where it is available in order to build up as full a picture as possible of the temporal and spatial variety in the ways that they were deposited. It is hoped that not only will a reassessment of Fowler’s original typology be achieved, but that the long chronology of the penannular brooch will also allow the investigation of some of the themes mentioned above on a much broader scale than would be achievable with a more short-lived artefact type.<br />
</p>20102013Anna Booth 3PhD level researchDaniel Pettdejp3@cam.ac.uk56208Later Iron Age Coinage in Britain: Reconstructing Insular Social Structures and Endogenous Aspects<p>At present I am a full-time Postgraduate student at the University of Leicester. The aim of my project is to examine the Later Iron Age coinage of Britain in order to reconstruct endogenous characters of the various communities/areas throughout Britain. By choice of sample locations, whose nature is archaeologically defined, I will investigate differences in production, distribution, iconography, deposition of coins as a means to identify features of the social structure, different forms of power/hierarchy and representation of authority, with particular attention at the attitude to change and to reception of continental/Classical influences. One of the aims of my research is to contribute to a wider comprehension of the actual issue of "Celticity" of the Iron Age communities of Britain. The PAS is an essential tool which enables numismatic data to be compared and connected.</p>2013Marta Fanello32010-10-15 09:35:40PhD level researchDaniel Pettdejp3@cam.ac.uk56Daniel Pett206The Manufacture and Meaning of Early Medieval Pewter<p>Research Proposal The Manufacture and Meaning of Early Medieval Pewter</p>
<p>The history of pewter, a tin alloy, stretches from the Egyptian New Kingdom to the modern day. With tin and lead found in abundant quantities in the British Isles, pewter was second only to cloth among English exports in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. As such it formed a major constituent to the development of British industry and trade. Although some scholarly attention has focused on Romano-British pewter from such finds as the Appleshaw and Icklingham hoards, and later medieval and early modern pewter objects such as those from the Mary Rose, little attention has been paid to pewter material from the Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Scandinavian periods. Ignored in favour of gold and silver jewellery, if mentioned at all, pewter objects have been dismissed as cheap trinkets, mere imitations of silver counterparts (Wilson 1964). This study seeks to fill this lacuna from both a material and stylistic approach. By examining pewter articles of dress from the early medieval period through both material and stylistic approaches, we hope to understand the technical choices and cultural preferences of both the producers and consumers of these objects, placing them within their cultural context at a time of dynamic social and political change. We also hope to better understand the development of pewter itself by bridging the gap between the Roman world and later production regulated by medieval guilds. Although collections have been identified in the Museum of London, the Yorkshire Museum, and the National Museum, Dublin, recently a significant amount of relevent material has appeared on the database of the Portable Antiquities Scheme. This new material promises to not only change our conception of the consumption and distribution of early medieval pewter dress accessories, but also illustrates the importance of PAS developments in current archaeological research.</p>
<p>The first approach seeks to characterise the alloys used to produce early medieval brooches and beads. As shown by previous studies (Brownsword and Pitt 1983; Pollard 1983; Pollard 1985; Lagen 2007), data from semi-quantitative analyses should suffice to allow us to differentiate discrete workshops using specific alloys, ascertain whether alloy compositions correlate to object type or to workshop preference, and assess the incidence of recycling in early medieval pewter - a practice well documented in the historical period. Whether or not fresh tin was being exploited at this time is still a debated topic as there is little archaeological or historical evidence to give a satisfactory response. A narrow band of compositional ranges would indicate the use primary tin, whereas a broad scatter would suggest a high level of recycling. The identification of workshops, especially when compared to known production sites and moulds in London, Southampton, Ipswich, York, and Dublin, will allow us to identify the extent of Anglo-Saxon trade in this material and highlight regional variability. Already it is known that at least one disc brooch, now in the Museum of London and found in the capital, has a mould match with an example found in Dublin and now in the National Museum (Clark 1989; Murdoch 1991).</p>
<p>Compositional analyses will also allow us to develop a diachronic understanding of pewter as a material. The compositions of these early medieval objects will be compared to Roman and later Guild-regulated recipes. These recipes are known from Classical writers such as Pliny, and later in Theophilus and the Mappae Clavicula in the 12th century, and also from Guild ordinances beginning in the 14th century. In addition to these historic sources, we shall also compare this data to previous scientific analytical work on archaeological material. This will facilitate a fuller understanding in the development of pewter from its first commercial appearance in the Roman world through its heyday in Medieval Europe, filling the current lacuna of some seven hundred years. In the interests of conservation and in respect to the aesthetic appeal of these objects, we suggest the use of portable non-destructive X-ray fluorescence (pXRF). XRF has an established history in the analysis of pewter objects (Brownsword and Pitt 1983; Pollard 1983; Pollard 1985), and our own previous studies (Lagen 2007) reassured us of its suitability for our research questions. Details of our proposed methodology are given below.</p>
<p>The second approach in this project, the stylistic analysis of early medieval pewter, will allow us to develop both a typological chronology of this corpus of material as well as place it in its cultural context. As articles of dress, these objects carried visible codes of belief, class, and ethnicity. It has been argued that these objects imitate counterparts in elite materials, especially silver and gold (Wilson 1964; Hinton 2005). This would suggest a non-elite population aping the styles of the cultural elite. Based on a review of the iconography of Anglo-Saxon jewellery, however, this seems not to be the case, as these objects, especially the brooches, have a range of styles unique to themselves that do not match the known silver jewellery types, although Scandinavian parallels may be occasionally found. If pewter may be indeed taken to be a cheap counterpart to more elite metals, do these objects have stylistic ties with motifs found on other non-elite, quotidian goods such as pottery or antler combs? If so, this may show that rather than imitating the material of the elites, local Anglo-Saxons or Anglo-Scandinavians may have developed a unique non-elite aesthetic. If not, what social dynamics do these objects illustrate?</p>
<p>By combining both the compositional and stylistic analyses, we will gain a better understanding of the producers and consumers of early medieval pewter. Not only may we address patterns of consumption between different economic classes, but we may confront issues of religion and ethnicity as well. Politically and culturally, this period was one of dynamic flux as Scandinavians and the Anglo-Saxons vied for superiority. The nature of this interaction was not at all times bellicose, as the regional art styles of each sphere developed elements of cultural syncretism (Wilson and Klindt-Jensen 1980; Wilson 1984; Hadley and Richards 2000). By understanding their motifs, production, and distribution, these objects will ultimately shed further light on the economic, social, and political interaction between Anglo-Saxon, Scandinavian, and Anglo-Scandinavian cultural spheres.</p>
<p>We propose to employ non-destructive pXRF as the main analytical technique to obtain semi-quantitative data on the chemical composition of the pewter objects. In a pilot study of the Cheapside hoard (Museum of London) by the proposed analyst (Lagen 2007), the use of this technique on unprepared pewter objects sufficed to make compositional groups with statistical and archaeological significance, based on Pb/Sn ratios and the concentrations of minor elements such as copper and bismuth.</p>
<p>Although we are aware of the problems of using techniques of surface analysis on corroded metals, we are prepared to compromise data quality to preserve the integrity of the objects, and we will only request the localised removal of corrosion layers on the objects if the preliminary analytical data on unprepared specimens appear highly scattered. Tin alloy patinas are typically thin and stable over time, unlike the thicker and more complex corrosion products of bronzes. Thus, if working at relatively high accelerating voltages, the penetration depth of the X-rays seems sufficient to yield acceptable results. In the study of Cheapside hoard, Lagen (2007) compared the results obtained by SEM-EDS at 20 kV to those from ED-XRF at 40 kV. While the EDS values showed a very large scatter, XRF results formed tight compositional clusters and exhibited an excellent degree of reproducibility. Even though the accuracy of these results cannot be assumed to be as good as data from clean surfaces, they are good enough for our primary purposes, i.e. alloy identification and internal comparisons within and between assemblages.</p>
<p>As noted above, the pXRF instrument at the UCL Institute of Archaeology has been calibrated specifically for this study, and we would prefer to use this instrument for all of our analyses to facilitate data comparability. Based on the satisfactory results of previous collaborations, the Museum of London has already agreed to lend relevant collections to UCL for this project, which are currently nearing completion.</p>
<p>The proposed analyses will therefore be completely non-invasive, and they will not compromise object integrity in any way. Given the nature of analyses and other demands on the pXRF instrument, it is expected that all data would be collected within one calendar year.</p>
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<p>Brownsword, R. and E. Pitt (1983). "A Note on Some Medieval Pewter Spoon Alloys." Journal of the Historical Metallurgy Society 17/2: 119. Clark, J. (1989). From Londinium to Lundenwic. Saxon and Norman London. London, Museum of London: 22. Hadley, D. and J. Richards, Eds. (2000). Cultures in Contact: Scandinavian Settlement in England in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries. Studies in the Early Middle Ages, Brepols. Hinton, D. (2005). Gold and Gilt, Pots and Pans: People and Possessions in Medieval Britain. Oxford, Oxford University Press. Lagen (2007). Method, Manufacture, Meaning (Unpublished). Institute of Archaeology. London, University College London. MSc. Murdoch, T., Ed. (1991). Treasures and Trinkets. London, Museum of London. Pollard, M. (1983). "X-Ray Flourescence Analysis of the Appleford Hoard of Romano-British Pewter." Journal of the Historical Metallurgy Society 17/2: 83-90. Pollard, M. (1985). Investigation of Lead Objects Using XRF. Lead and Tin Studies in Conservation and Technology. UKIC Occasional Paper Number 3. K. Starling. Wilson, D. (1964). Anglo-Saxon Ornamental Metalwork 700-1100 in the British Museum. London, The British Museum. Wilson, D. (1984). Anglo-Saxon Art. London, Thames and Hudson. Wilson, D. and O. Klindt-Jensen (1980). Viking Art. London, Allen and Unwin.</p>Chris Lagen32010-10-12 16:28:49PhD level researchDaniel Pettdejp3@cam.ac.uk56Daniel Pett189A search for possible periodic markets in England and Wales<p>I am presently a part-time PhD candidate at Southampton University looking at Roman rural settlement in central southern England. My research commenced in February of this year, so that my exact approach still remains uncertain, although I am most concerned with economic aspects of the subject. In particular, I would like to consider the use of the Portable Antiquities Scheme database to search for possible periodic markets in my study area (e.g. places where there a large number of coins, especially of low value, and perhaps small artefacts, in a relatively limited area). My PhD status lasts until 31/01/17 at present although I aim to conclude by 2015. The referee below is my PhD supervisor at Southampton.</p>20102015Geoff Taylor3PhD level researchDaniel Pettdejp3@cam.ac.uk56184Investigating anthropomorphic representational art on metallic objects in Coastal Eastern England<p>Investigating anthropomorphic representational art on metallic objects in Coastal Eastern England, AD 400 -750. This project identifies a corpora of human imagery depicted on metalwork from Lincolnshire, Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, Suffolk, Essex and Kent. </p><p>
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<p>This thesis examines the relationship between image, artefact, use/purpose and context in order to investigate the role and meaning of such representations on objects, and is to be completed by October 2012.</p>20102012Lisa Brundle3PhD level researchDaniel Pettdejp3@cam.ac.uk56183Bejewelled: the Male Body and Adornment in Early Modern Britain<p>Natasha is looking at men in Britain from the period 1509 (beginning of the reign of Henry VIII) until the end of James I’s reign in 1625 and exploring the significance of jewels that they wore, owned and circulated. Trying to move away from notions of jewellery that sees it as trifles of adornment, I want to show how these small-scale objects reflected ideas of magnificence, lineage, and wealth, as well as being signifiers of social bonds and networks of reciprocity. I am interested not only in looking at the royal bodies of Henry VIII and James I but courtiers, such as Robert Dudley, merchants, including Thomas Gresham, and also those lower down the social scale. By using objects within the collection of the British Museum, and those that have been declared as Treasure under the 1996 Treasure Act I want to demonstrate how jewels were equally as important for men across all social levels. While intrinsically these objects were deemed valuable, their emotional worth is what I wish to unlock. </p>20092012Natasha Awais-Dean3PhD level researchDaniel Pettdejp3@cam.ac.uk56177Landscape context of Bronze Age hoards in South Central England<p>I would like to request an upgrade to research level user.</p>
<p>I am working on a project as an MPhil/PhD research student at the University of Winchester, looking at the landscape context of Bronze Age hoards in South Central England, with particular reference to the southern coastline and the Avon, Itchen and Thames river valleys, currently including the counties of Hampshire, the Isle of Wight, Berkshire, Surrey, Buckinghamshire, West Sussex, Wiltshire, Gloucester, Somerset and Dorset. Part of my project includes plotting finds on geological and topographical maps using GIS, and for this I need to acquire more "specific" OS Reference numbers for each find. I plan to complete the project in late 2012.</p>20092012Camille Sheperd32010-06-11 15:51:09PhD level researchDaniel Pettdejp3@cam.ac.uk56Daniel Pett170Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooch<p>Ph.D. Abstract:</p>
<p>The cruciform brooch is among the most abundant decorative dress accessories of the 5th and 6th centuries AD. Since the advent of the Portable Antiquities Scheme the number of known instances has dramatically increased to a value well into the thousands. Considering this status, the cruciform brooch has received surprisingly little comprehensive and published research. That which exists deals almost exclusively with typology.</p>
<p>My Ph.D. focuses instead on the meaning of the cruciform brooch from a stylistic and contextual basis in terms of feminine gender and social structure. The various typologies proposed for the cruciform brooch will be refined into a system more suitable for this study that will also have regional and chronological significance. The grave context of this item will be considered in terms of associated grave goods, osteological sex and age, and region. The development of the brooch´s complex iconography will be systematically analysed in the wider context of early Anglo-Saxon art history, while the significance of individual examples that demonstrate mutable meanings and object biography will be illustrated by a study of repair and modification.</p>
<p>Early Anglo-Saxon dress accessories are traditionally seen as key identifiers of chronology and regional identity. Though pertinent, this research goes beyond such relatively superficial factors to look at the individual social, symbolic and structural meanings of a specific brooch type, particularly in terms of gender and the life course.</p>Toby Martin32010-06-03 17:01:28PhD level researchDaniel Pettdejp3@cam.ac.uk56Daniel Pett165The nature of Island settlement in the Middle Ages: A comparative study of Island archaeology of the English Channel<p>I am registered for a part-time PhD at UCL looking at: ‘The nature of Island settlement in the Middle Ages: A comparative study of Island archaeology of the English Channel.’ My main area of interest is the Isle of Wight, looking to compare this to the Channel Islands, where possible.</p>
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<p>My PhD research centres on the relationships between people and their environment through focussing on the notion of social change and continuity during the late Iron Age and Romano-British period. Using the Severn Estuary in the Roman period as the focus I hope to show how identities and social relationships were played out through material objects at a time where the interaction of different cultures meant that identity and meaning were never static or simple but fluid and complex.</p>
<p>The study of archaeological artefacts allows us to investigate how objects mediate in relationships between people, knowledge and practices. Shared knowledge, world views and identities are often played out through material engagement with the world where various actors (both human and material) participate in a series of everyday practices. Shared practices can be termed as social or cultural habits and such habits and practices are formed from communal knowledge and understanding. This research seeks to identify possible cultural habits or practices (and with it the underlying shared knowledge) of those inhabiting the Severn Estuary during the late Iron Age and early Romano-British period in through a study of artefacts; brooches, coins and pottery.</p>20102012Caroline Pudney32010-05-13 12:47:56PhD level researchDaniel Pettdejp3@cam.ac.uk56Daniel Pett155Environmental change and land use in the Darent valley in Kent.<p>Currently studying for a DPhil at Sussex University which is looking at environmental change and land use in the Darent valley in Kent. This also links to a community archaeological project that i am co field director of - The Darent Valley Archaeological Project. As part of the project we are looking to plot finds by period in the valley and then start to look at the patterns of use and finds within the valley and link this to material culture and settlement studies</p>Paul Cawsey32010-04-25 16:49:08PhD level researchDaniel Pettdejp3@cam.ac.uk56Daniel Pett152Rural settlement in Shropshire during the late pre-Roman Iron Age to Roman transition period <p>Doctoral research at the Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity, University of Birmingham.
The thesis will examine rural settlement in Shropshire during the late pre-Roman Iron Age to Roman transition period with reference to the developing urban centres of the Roman province.</p>
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