Abstract

The fourteenth volume in the British Academy’s Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture series on Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire was published at the end of 2023 and it finds the area very rich in early stone sculpture – particularly of the Anglo-Scandinavian and early post-Conquest periods. This large mass of material can be sorted into large groups of standardised monuments that appear to have been mass-produced at the well-known quarries near Barnack, including those famous examples from the large late pre-Conquest cemetery buried below Cambridge Castle. Such studies cannot be undertaken without a painstakingly analysis of the work of previous antiquarians, working from the late eighteenth century onwards, and including a review of Cyril Fox’s landmark 1922 survey. Our paper will focus, particularly, on these earlier recorders of stone sculpture and their analysis, and – in the process – it reveals new thinking about the entire topic – and particularly about Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire in the late tenth and eleventh centuries.