Synopses & Reviews
A collection of essays in memory of Sonia Chadwick Hawkes: 1) Introduction (Martin Henig and Tyler Jo Smith); 2) Collectanea Antiqua: Sir John Soane's Greek Vases (Tyler Jo Smith); 3) Historical Archaeology and the British Archaeological Association (Martin Henig); 4) E.T. Leeds and the Formulation of an Anglo-Saxon Archaeology of England (Arthur MacGregor); 5) The Novum Inventorium Sepulchrale: Anglo-Saxon Graves and Goods from Kent in the Sonia Hawkes Archive (Birte Brugmann, Helena Hamerow and Deborah K. Harlan); 6) Sonia Chadwick Hawkes and the 'Three Ships' (Lydia Carr); 7) 'Gomol is snoterost': Growing Old in Anglo-Saxon England (Sally Crawford); 8) Was Redwald a European? Sutton Hoo as a Reflection of British Attitudes to Europe (William Filmer-Sankey); 9) Some Considerations on Religion in Early England (James Campbell); 10) Edgar's Lost Grant of Exton, Hants (Martin Biddle); 11) The 'Altar' of Sulis Minerva at Bath: Rethinking the Choice of Deities (Stacey McGowen); 12) Swords, Seaxes and Saxons: Pattern-Welding and Edged Weapon Technology from Late Roman Britain to Anglo-Saxon England (Brian Gilmour); 13) The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Old Park, near Dover, Revisited (Keith Parfitt and Tania M. Dickinson); Interlace - Thoughts and Observations (George Speake); 14) Soldiers and Settlers in Britain, Fourth to Fifth Century - Revisited (Kevin Leahy, with an appendix by Barry Ager); 15) What We Call Home: Reflections on Ancient and Modern Settlement in Deal, East Kent, UK (Christine Finn); 16) Sonia Chadwick Hawkes: Life and Career (Martin Welch); 17) Oxford University Lectureship in European Archaeology (Early Medieval Specialism) (Sonia Chadwick Hawkes); 18) The Oxford Institute of Archaeology, 1961-86: An Informal Retrospect (Sonia Chadwick Hawkes).
Synopsis
This collection of essays brings together some of the biggest names in British archaeology to pay tribute to Sonia Chadwick Hawkes. The bulk of the essays are, as one might expect on Anglo-Saxon archaeology, culture and society, amny of them on sites in Kent, with a section on antiquarianism and collecting, and a section looking back at the life and career of Sonia Chadwick Hawkes.