James Graham-Campbell
Biographic Data
| ID | 1033387 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James Graham-Campbell |
| GIVEN NAMES | James |
| FAMILY NAME | Graham-Campbell |
| SIGNATURE | GRAHAM-CAMPBELL J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of Archaeology, University College London, London, UK |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 41 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1973 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Dress pins, bosses and pegged playing pieces
This paper discusses, without fixing, the meaning and identity of two glass bosses from Northern British archaeological contexts of the late first millennium AD, both power-centres in a socio-cultural network encompassing Pictland and Northumbria. The emphasis is on fluidity and hybridity of meaning and interpretation, by drawing out their biographical implications as a means of elucidating the inter-linked social and functional complexity of the…
Unusual Roman Iron Age burials on the Links of Pierowall, Westray, Orkney
Antiquarian accounts and surviving finds allow two Iron Age cist-burials found in the late 18th century on the Links of Pierowall on Westray, Orkney, to be reconstructed, although no details of the bodies survive (but both were most probably inhumations); the unusual finds have not previously received full attention. One burial contained a polished stone disc, used as a palette for grinding some valued substance, probably cosmetic, medical or nar…
Vikings in Scotland
This book provides a full overview of the archaeology of the Vikings in Scotland, incorporating many results from the recent period of intense fieldwork and excavation. This work has necessitated a thorough re-appraisal of our knowledge of the process, nature and extent of Scandinavian settlement in Scotland. Concentrating on the Viking and Late Norse periods which span the eight to thirteenth centuries in northern and western Scotland, the chron…
A Pictish ‘serpent’ incised slab from Jarlshof, Shetland
The identification and dating of a supposed Norse grave slab of 10th-/11th-century date from Jarlshof, Shetland, consisting of two decorated fragments picked up on the beach beside this multi-period settlement site in the 1930s, are rejected by the authors of this paper in favour of a Pictish attribution, a late 6th- or early 7th-century date, and a probable architectural function. On the basis of a detailed examination of the two fragments of th…
Ossianic gold
A Viking Age or Late Norse gold finger-ring in Glasgow Museums (A.1979.19), previously thought to have been found in the Isle of Skye, is here identified with a ring said to have been found in the Isle of Jura in 1869 (together with another, now lost). This identification is based on an illustration published in 1875 by the ring’s then owner, the Rev Dr P H Waddell (1816–91). Waddell’s use of the ring as a piece of evidence in his attempts to pro…
Silver Economy in the Viking Age
Regions around the North Sea with a monetized economy in the Pre-Viking and Viking AgesDavid Metcalf * South Scandinavian coinage in the ninth centuryBrita Malmer* Hedeby and its hinterland: a local numismatic regionRalf Weichmann* The evidence of pecking in the Cuerdale hoardMarion Archibald* Gold in England during the later Anglo-Saxon periodMark Blackburn* A survey of coin production and currency in Normandy, 864-945Jens Christian Moesgaard* V…
Texts in the landscape
here are at least 1200 stone monuments known fr om the Celtic-speaking regions of north west Europe (Scotland, Ireland, Wales, Brittany, the Isle of Man, and parts of western England) which were inscribed with text during the early middle ages (c. AD 400-1 100). They were created mostly for funerary, commemorative and legal purposes, in both the Celtic vernac ulars and Latin, using either the Roman or Irish ogham alphabets,1 with occasionally bot…
Alumni Reflections
Bookshelf
The ‘William Allen Box’
The ‘William Allen box’ is a rare survival of a collection of antiquities, mostly of Roman date, collected in the Victorian period. This paper discusses the identity and life of the collector and some of the more notable objects before examining the provenance of some of the material, in particular the findspots ‘Ad Fines’ and ‘Croydon’. The importance of the collection in the context of the antiquarian age in which it was assembled is also discu…
Viking Age and Late Norse gold and silver from Scotland
There are two parts to this paper, the first of which takes the form of addenda and corrigenda (mainlyof an antiquarian nature) to the author’s catalogue of Viking Age and Late Norse gold and silverfrom Scotland (Graham-Campbell 1995). The second part brings together (and catalogues) all therelevant finds that have either been discovered or newly recognised during the decade since itspublication (to 2006)
The Archaeology of Celtic Britain and Ireland, c. AD 400-1200 . Lloyd Laing
On the Witham Bowl
The only known illustrations of the lost Anglo-Saxon silver hanging-bowl from the River Witham, Lincolnshire, are those in the Society's collections, including a hitherto unknown sketch, published here for the first time. Further information concerning the bowl's pedigree, since its discovery in 1816, has also come to light, together with evidence for its survival into the twentieth century. Attention is also drawn to three recent finds of orname…
Viking art
Ringerike
Oseberg
Thor the Wind-Raiser and the Eyrarland Image . Richard Perkins
The Northern Isles
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Short Reviews
Texts in the landscape
A hoard of Hiberno-Viking arm-rings, probably from Scotland
A hoard of five silver arm-rings, probably from Scotland, is reconstructed on the basis of three extant rings in the British Museum and five base-metal copies in the National Museum of Ireland
Norrie's Law, Fife
Conflicting opinions concerning the deposition date of the silver treasure from Norrie's Law, Lower Largo, Fife, are reviewed in the light of the nineteenth century records of its discovery and contents, most of which were melted down when it was found in (or about) 1819. It is concluded that the hoard comprised predominantly Pictish silver, with some Late Roman elements, and was deposited most probably during the second half of the seventh centu…
A pair of inscribed Anglo-Saxon hooked tags from the Rome (Forum) 1883 hoard
The importance of the hoard found in the excavations in the Forum at Rome in 1883, just outside the the House of the Vestal Virgins, has long been recognized by Anglo-Saxon numismatists, for it is the largest recorded source for the coinage of Æthelstan and Edmund. Archaeologists, art-historians and epigraphers have, however, failed to appreciate the significance for Anglo-Saxon studies of the pair of silver tags found with the coins (pl. VIII), …
A Lost Reliquary Casket from Gwytherin, North Wales
A reliquary casket known from seventeenth- and eighteenth-century records as that of St Winifrid had been lost by the mid-nineteenth century from the church at Gwytherin in Clwyd. A drawing attributed to Edward Lluyd, published here for the first time, suggests that it was most probably of eighth- or early ninth-century date and was influenced by Anglo-Saxon (JG-C) or Irish (LB) models, if not an actual import into North Wales
Short Reviews
Norrie's Law, Fife
Conflicting opinions concerning the deposition date of the silver treasure from Norrie's Law, Lower Largo, Fife, are reviewed in the light of the nineteenth century records of its discovery and contents, most of which were melted down when it was found in (or about) 1819. It is concluded that the hoard comprised predominantly Pictish silver, with some Late Roman elements, and was deposited most probably during the second half of the seventh centu…
A Lost Reliquary Casket from Gwytherin, North Wales
A reliquary casket known from seventeenth- and eighteenth-century records as that of St Winifrid had been lost by the mid-nineteenth century from the church at Gwytherin in Clwyd. A drawing attributed to Edward Lluyd, published here for the first time, suggests that it was most probably of eighth- or early ninth-century date and was influenced by Anglo-Saxon (JG-C) or Irish (LB) models, if not an actual import into North Wales
On the Witham Bowl
The only known illustrations of the lost Anglo-Saxon silver hanging-bowl from the River Witham, Lincolnshire, are those in the Society's collections, including a hitherto unknown sketch, published here for the first time. Further information concerning the bowl's pedigree, since its discovery in 1816, has also come to light, together with evidence for its survival into the twentieth century. Attention is also drawn to three recent finds of orname…
Thor the Wind-Raiser and the Eyrarland Image . Richard Perkins
A lost Pictish treasure (and two Viking-age gold arm-rings) from the Broch of Burgar, Orkney
This paper presents the first full discussion of the provenance, composition and affinities of the remarkable hoard of silver vessels and ornaments and amber which was found in 1840 and since lost. The Viking-age gold arm-rings and burials from elsewhere on the same site are also discussed
The 9th-century Anglo-Saxon Horn-mount from Burghead, Morayshire, Scotland
THE silver horn-mount found at Burghead, Morayshire, and now in the National Museum of Antiquities of Scotland,1 is of a form otherwise unrecorded amongst the corpus of late Anglo-Saxon metalwork. Although it was discovered nearly 150 years ago, the mount has never received the full publication it merits and, as a result, a number of mistaken ideas concerning it have become established. Previous discussion on the use of horns by the Anglo-Saxons …
Bossed Penannular Brooches
A GROUP of 9th and 10th-century insular brooches is discussed here in the light of a recent paper by 0. S. Johansen, entitled ‘Bossed Penannular Brooches’.1 The corpus of brooches catalogued by Johansen is reviewed and the removal of three of his forty-three examples is suggested. Two additions are made, including one hitherto unpublished fragment, which prompts a revision of Johansen's classification of the material into subgroups. Problems rela…
Western British, Irish and Later Anglo-Saxon
(1975). Western British, Irish and Later Anglo-Saxon. Archaeological Journal: Vol. 132, No. 1, pp. 349-361
Western British, Irish and Later Anglo-Saxon
Western British, Irish and Later Anglo-Saxon
Western British, Irish and Later Anglo-Saxon
Short Reviews
A bronze ‘thistle-brooch’ of Viking-age date from near Kinlochleven, Argyllshire
Short Reviews
An unpublished gold finger-ring of Viking-age date from the Isle of Skye, and new light on the 1850 Skye hoard
In 1979 the City of Glasgow Art Gallery and Museum, Kelvingrove, purchased at auction a gold finger-ring (pi 40b) said to have been found before 1916 on the Isle of Skye (Christie's Sale, 28 Nov 1979, lot 28).I am grateful to Miss Helen Adamson for the invitation to publish this ring and for the information, obtained through Christies from the vendor, that it had originally belonged to a Countess Latour whose farm on Skye had been managed by his …
Short Reviews
A Viking-age gold arm-ring from the Sound of Jura
The gold arm-ring that forms the subject of this note was found by skin-divers in 1981, on the sea-bed near Ruadh Sgeir
Two Viking-age silver brooch fragments believed to be from the 1858 Skaill (Orkney) hoard
Discusses an elaborately decorated pin, and a pin-head. Appends a note on lost silver objects from Oxtro Broch. Birsay
Short Reviews
A late Celtic enamelled mount from Galson, Isle of Lewis
Close parallels in 8th/9th century contexts in the Isle of Man, Ireland, and Norway are adduced. Au
A lost Pictish treasure (and two Viking-age gold arm-rings) from the Broch of Burgar, Orkney
This paper presents the first full discussion of the provenance, composition and affinities of the remarkable hoard of silver vessels and ornaments and amber which was found in 1840 and since lost. The Viking-age gold arm-rings and burials from elsewhere on the same site are also discussed
Short Reviews
A Lost Reliquary Casket from Gwytherin, North Wales
A reliquary casket known from seventeenth- and eighteenth-century records as that of St Winifrid had been lost by the mid-nineteenth century from the church at Gwytherin in Clwyd. A drawing attributed to Edward Lluyd, published here for the first time, suggests that it was most probably of eighth- or early ninth-century date and was influenced by Anglo-Saxon (JG-C) or Irish (LB) models, if not an actual import into North Wales
A pair of inscribed Anglo-Saxon hooked tags from the Rome (Forum) 1883 hoard
The importance of the hoard found in the excavations in the Forum at Rome in 1883, just outside the the House of the Vestal Virgins, has long been recognized by Anglo-Saxon numismatists, for it is the largest recorded source for the coinage of Æthelstan and Edmund. Archaeologists, art-historians and epigraphers have, however, failed to appreciate the significance for Anglo-Saxon studies of the pair of silver tags found with the coins (pl. VIII), …
Norrie's Law, Fife
Conflicting opinions concerning the deposition date of the silver treasure from Norrie's Law, Lower Largo, Fife, are reviewed in the light of the nineteenth century records of its discovery and contents, most of which were melted down when it was found in (or about) 1819. It is concluded that the hoard comprised predominantly Pictish silver, with some Late Roman elements, and was deposited most probably during the second half of the seventh centu…
A hoard of Hiberno-Viking arm-rings, probably from Scotland
A hoard of five silver arm-rings, probably from Scotland, is reconstructed on the basis of three extant rings in the British Museum and five base-metal copies in the National Museum of Ireland
Texts in the landscape
Short Reviews
The Northern Isles
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Viking art
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