Rose Broadley
University College London, Institue of Archaeology, Graduate Student
- Freelance glass specialist. Book on 'The glass vessels of Anglo-Saxon England, c. 650-1100' published by Oxbow in 2019. PhD from UCL in 2017.edit
This resource is a single blog post created as part of the Day of Archaeology initiative. The Day of Archaeology project aimed to provide a window into the daily lives of archaeologists from all over the world. The project asked people... more
This resource is a single blog post created as part of the Day of Archaeology initiative. The Day of Archaeology project aimed to provide a window into the daily lives of archaeologists from all over the world. The project asked people working, studying or volunteering in the archaeological world to participate in a 'Day of Archaeology' each year by recording their day and sharing it through text, images or video on the Day of Archaeology blog.<br>The project asked anyone with a personal, professional or voluntary interest in archaeology to get involved, and help highlight the reasons why archaeology is vital to protect the past and inform our futures. The resulting Day of Archaeology project archive demonstrates the wide variety of work the archaeological profession undertakes day-to-day across the globe, and helps to raise public awareness of the relevance and importance of archaeology to the modern world.<br>The first ever Day of Archaeology was held in 2011 a...
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The 7th-9th century vessel glass from the early medieval emporium at Ipswich was excavated between 1974 and 1990. The Ipswich assemblage is the second largest settlement assemblage of this period from England, and is from one of the... more
The 7th-9th century vessel glass from the early medieval emporium at Ipswich was excavated between 1974 and 1990. The Ipswich assemblage is the second largest settlement assemblage of this period from England, and is from one of the principal trading settlements of early medieval England. Here as elsewhere, the vessel glass illuminates drinking culture and activity, economic and social connections (e.g. with Dorestad), contemporary artistic choices and capabilities, and the nature of settlements. The Ipswich assemblage is very important for both glass studies and early medieval settlement archaeology in England and north-western Europe.
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The Lyminge excavations produced the largest and most diverse assemblage of vessel and window glass yet recovered from a rural settlement in early medieval England. The assemblage is unique in embracing a typo-chronological progression of... more
The Lyminge excavations produced the largest and most diverse assemblage of vessel and window glass yet recovered from a rural settlement in early medieval England. The assemblage is unique in embracing a typo-chronological progression of vessel glass from Early through to Middle Anglo-Saxon forms and also includes the first collection of early medieval window and vessel glass from a monastic context in the kingdom of Kent. The fifth to sixth-century glass assemblage is of particular significance in providing the first evidence for large-scale vessel consumption within a settlement context in early Anglo-Saxon England and for the provisional identification of glass-working waste and raw materials, potentially associated with the production of glass vessels. This contribution provides a preliminary overview of the assemblage and evaluates its research potential for early medieval glass studies.
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This volume is based upon a conference convened at the University of Kent in April 2015 to celebrate the conclusion of a major programme of archaeological excavation targeting the Anglo-Saxon royal centre and monastery of Lyminge, Kent.... more
This volume is based upon a conference convened at the
University of Kent in April 2015 to celebrate the conclusion
of a major programme of archaeological excavation
targeting the Anglo-Saxon royal centre and monastery of
Lyminge, Kent. The aim of the conference was to contextualize
the principal findings of the Lyminge Project by
drawing upon a range of historical and archaeological
perspectives on early medieval monasticism in northwest
Europe, with a geographical emphasis (though not
exclusive focus) on Kent and neighbouring regions of the
continental North Sea basin. In planning the conference,
the organisers were conscious of following close on the
heels of a number of high-profile academic networks and
initiatives examining the Christianization of the ‘Insular’
British Isles with the spread of monastic culture forming
one of its pivotal themes and institutional contexts.1 On
the other hand, it was felt that the initiative had something
genuinely distinctive to offer by shifting the spotlight of
attention from Northumbria and the Celtic-speaking
regions of the British Isles to Kent, a geographical zone
which has been somewhat neglected in recent evaluations
of Insular monasticism.2 This refocusing, it was hoped,
would offer an opportunity for scholars to come together
to look afresh at Kent as an early medieval monastic province,
to re-evaluate the external (in particular) Frankish
influences that shaped it and its own shaping influence on
the expansion of monastic culture in the Insular British
Isles.
One of the key objectives of the current volume is
to provide a fresh and current overview of the Lyminge
Project and its contribution to early medieval studies at
the end of the data-gathering phase and before the initiation
of a large and complex programme of post-excavation
analysis which lies ahead. For this reason, with the exception
of Broadley’s contribution on the Anglo-Saxon glass,
the editors decided against soliciting additional ‒ or, in the
case of the three speakers who were unable to offer their
papers for publication, replacement – contributions on
the grounds that it would have resulted in an undue prolongation
in the publication process. If the end product
falls some way short of a comprehensive state-of-the-art
review of recent historical and archaeological scholarship
on early medieval monasticism in north-west Europe,
then it is hoped that it provides a useful entry-point into
some of the key debates and research agendas shaping the
field as outlined in the rest of this introduction.
University of Kent in April 2015 to celebrate the conclusion
of a major programme of archaeological excavation
targeting the Anglo-Saxon royal centre and monastery of
Lyminge, Kent. The aim of the conference was to contextualize
the principal findings of the Lyminge Project by
drawing upon a range of historical and archaeological
perspectives on early medieval monasticism in northwest
Europe, with a geographical emphasis (though not
exclusive focus) on Kent and neighbouring regions of the
continental North Sea basin. In planning the conference,
the organisers were conscious of following close on the
heels of a number of high-profile academic networks and
initiatives examining the Christianization of the ‘Insular’
British Isles with the spread of monastic culture forming
one of its pivotal themes and institutional contexts.1 On
the other hand, it was felt that the initiative had something
genuinely distinctive to offer by shifting the spotlight of
attention from Northumbria and the Celtic-speaking
regions of the British Isles to Kent, a geographical zone
which has been somewhat neglected in recent evaluations
of Insular monasticism.2 This refocusing, it was hoped,
would offer an opportunity for scholars to come together
to look afresh at Kent as an early medieval monastic province,
to re-evaluate the external (in particular) Frankish
influences that shaped it and its own shaping influence on
the expansion of monastic culture in the Insular British
Isles.
One of the key objectives of the current volume is
to provide a fresh and current overview of the Lyminge
Project and its contribution to early medieval studies at
the end of the data-gathering phase and before the initiation
of a large and complex programme of post-excavation
analysis which lies ahead. For this reason, with the exception
of Broadley’s contribution on the Anglo-Saxon glass,
the editors decided against soliciting additional ‒ or, in the
case of the three speakers who were unable to offer their
papers for publication, replacement – contributions on
the grounds that it would have resulted in an undue prolongation
in the publication process. If the end product
falls some way short of a comprehensive state-of-the-art
review of recent historical and archaeological scholarship
on early medieval monasticism in north-west Europe,
then it is hoped that it provides a useful entry-point into
some of the key debates and research agendas shaping the
field as outlined in the rest of this introduction.