The corpus of Anglo-Saxon stone sculpture

Project start date: 2004-04

Project end date: 2009-03

The aim of this project is to publish catalogues of all the Anglo-Saxon carved stones, fully illustrated by high quality photographs, with general discussions concerning their relationships and significance, and full bibliographic references. Initially the regional volumes are published by the British Academy, but when the volumes are no longer in the Academy list they are published in shortened form on the internet. The digitized photographs are curated by the ADS (York). These catalogues complement other corpora for Scotland and Wales as well as similar catalogues in progress in Italy and France. Our methodology for the project has also been adopted by the new Welsh corpus. The series has already proved its value to archaeologists, art historians, historical geographers, place-name specialists, and iconographers, and has received a series of supportive reviews. This material is often the earliest evidence which we have for the post-Roman occupation of a site; the style and imagery of the carving can indicate relationships between centres, including those on the continent; and the content of the inscriptions and images can throw light on their social and religious context. There has been a steady demand for high quality photographic images by scholars in Britain and abroad (notably the USA), and we now supply all of our images digitally. In order to make the volumes more accessible to a wider public by reducing the price, we are currently setting Volume VII ourselves in-house. SEE ABOVE