Pre-conquest sculpture of Cheshire

Principal investigator: Joanne Kirton
Level: PhD level research

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.

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.

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.

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