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SUMMARY:Antiquarians\, architects and archaeologists: rediscoverers of ear
 ly stone sculpture in Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire - David Stocker
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DESCRIPTION:The fourteenth volume in the British Academy’s Corpus of Ang
 lo-Saxon Stone Sculpture series on Cambridgeshire and Huntingdonshire was 
 published at the end of 2023 and it finds the area very rich in early ston
 e sculpture – particularly of the Anglo-Scandinavian and early post-Conq
 uest periods.  This large mass of material can be sorted into large groups
  of standardised monuments that appear to have been mass-produced at the w
 ell-known quarries near Barnack\, including those famous examples from the
  large late pre-Conquest cemetery buried below Cambridge Castle. Such stud
 ies cannot be undertaken without a painstakingly analysis of the work of p
 revious  antiquarians\, working from the late eighteenth century onwards\,
  and including a review of Cyril Fox’s landmark 1922 survey. Our paper w
 ill focus\, particularly\, on these earlier recorders of stone sculpture a
 nd their analysis\, and – in the process – it reveals new thinking abo
 ut the entire topic – and particularly about Cambridgeshire and Huntingd
 onshire in the late tenth and eleventh centuries.
LOCATION:Cripps Auditorium\, Cripps Court\, Magdalene College
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