John Cherry

Biographic Data

ID3584660
NAMEJohn Cherry
GIVEN NAMESJohn
FAMILY NAMECherry
SIGNATURECHERRY J
AFFILIATIONSBritish Museum
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS39
TOTAL CITATIONS26
AUTHOR COUNT39
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1969
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2021
H-INDEX2

  • The Silver Seal Matrix of John de Wike Found in Bratton Seymour Parish, Somerset

    Open AccessMartin Henig, John F Cherry et al.ARTICLEJournal of the British…2021

    This note examines a silver seal matrix set with a very remarkable Roman gem showing the youthful Octavian wearing the petasus (a sunhat with broad brim) of Mercury. From the inscription it belonged to John de Wike. The gem was probably set in the matrix in the late 13th or early 14th century. This note discusses the name of the owner and the design of the gem

  • The enamelled baldric of Thomas Randolph, 1st Earl of Moray (c 1280–1332): Scottish or French enamelling

    John F Cherry, John CherryARTICLEProceedings of the Society of…2021

    The baldric of Thomas Randolph, 1st Earl of Moray (died 1332), a companion in arms of King Robert I, was made in the first half of the 14th century and taken to England before 1604, since which time it has been attached to the Savernake horn, now in the British Museum. It is elaborately decorated with champlevé and translucent enamel, and bears the arms of argent three cushions gules within a royal tressure, which were adopted by Thomas Randolph …

  • Archaeology for the People: Joukowsky Institute Perspectives

    John F Cherry, John Cherry et al.BOOKArchaeology for the People2016

  • The Hunt Dekadrachm

    Open AccessJohn F Cherry, John Cherry et al.ARTICLEThe Antiquaries Journal2015References: 3

    This paper describes a Syracusan silver dekadrachm (ten-drachma) coin of c 400 bc , now in the Hunt Museum, Limerick, that is set in a gold ring with a text in elaborate Lombardic letters of early fourteenth-century date identifying it as one of the thirty pieces of silver for which Christ was betrayed by Judas. It is an unusual and early example of this type of relic

  • A Post-Roman Sequence at Carlisle Cathedral

    Mike Mccarthy, Marion Archibald et al.ARTICLEArchaeological Journal2014Cited by: 1References: 6

    Major new research on this important Post-Roman site. Contributions from several specialists on significant archaeological assemblages

  • The Winchester Moot Horn

    Nina Crummy, John F Cherry et al.ARTICLEMedieval Archaeology2008References: 1

    The Winchester Moot Horn was found in a chest in the late 19th century when the Westgate was cleared out in advance of its conversion to a museum. Although generally believed to be of late-12th- or early-13th-century date on stylistic grounds, and a civic horn appears in local documentary sources, its excellent state of preservation has always raised some doubt as to its antiquity. Recent study and scientific analyses have now confirmed its early…

  • Healing through faith: The continuation of medieval attitudes to jewellery into the Renaissance

    Open AccessJohn CherryARTICLERenaissance Studies2001

  • Short Reviews

    Neil Christie, Roger Kipling et al.ARTICLEMedieval Archaeology1999

  • The Farnham Pin

    Open AccessJohn F Cherry, John CherryARTICLEThe Antiquaries Journal1997Cited by: 1References: 3

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  • Survey at any price

    Open AccessSusan E Alcock, Susan Alcock et al.ARTICLEAntiquity1996References: 1

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  • Short Reviews

    Terry Barry, G G ASTILL et al.ARTICLEMedieval Archaeology1991

  • Short Reviews

    Steve Roskams, Gustav Milne et al.ARTICLEMedieval Archaeology1990

  • Symbolism and Survival: Medieval Horns of Tenure

    Open AccessJohn F Cherry, John CherryARTICLEThe Antiquaries Journal1989Cited by: 5References: 12

    Horns were often preserved not for their aesthetic qualities but for their significance as symbols of either office or tenure. This article discusses horns associated with forests and shows how their symbolic interest led to their preservation and study by antiquaries

  • A Fifteenth-Century Mercury-Silvered Buckle from Hillington, Norfolk

    Open AccessDuncan Hook, Susan La Niece et al.ARTICLEThe Antiquaries Journal1988Cited by: 1References: 1

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  • Short Reviews

    C J Arnold, Martin Welch et al.ARTICLEMedieval Archaeology1984

  • Short Reviews

    G G ASTILL, H R Ellis Davidson et al.ARTICLEMedieval Archaeology1983

  • Post-Medieval Britain in 1981

    John F Cherry, John CherryARTICLEPost-Medieval Archaeology1982

    (1982). Post-Medieval Britain in 1981. Post-Medieval Archaeology: Vol. 16, No. 1, pp. 217-229

  • Post-Medieval Britain in 1980

    John F Cherry, John CherryARTICLEPost-Medieval Archaeology1981

    (1981). Post-Medieval Britain in 1980. Post-Medieval Archaeology: Vol. 15, No. 1, pp. 225-231

  • Excavations at the Longton Hall Porcelain Factory

    Hugh Tait, John F Cherry et al.ARTICLEPost-Medieval Archaeology1980

    Part II comprises a description of the kiln furniture found during the excavations which culminated in the discovery of the remains of the floors of four kilns and adjacent buildings, part of the Longton Hall porcelain factory complex in operation from 1751-60. The functions of the kiln furniture, both in protecting the porcelain wares in the kilns and in supporting them during the firing processes are also discussed

  • Post-Medieval Britain in 1979

    John F Cherry, John CherryARTICLEPost-Medieval Archaeology1980Cited by: 2

    1. ECCLESIASTICAL BUILDINGS HERTFORDSHIRE: HITCHIN, (TL/181112895). Following a detailed survey in 1978 of those grave memorials -to be destroyed in Tileho,Use St. Baptist Churchyard a watching brief was maintained by G. R. Burleigh for North Hertfordshire District Council Museums Service. Dated graves covered the period from 1702 to 1939, the majority being pre-1850, and several types of burial were noted, ranging from simple wooden coffins in u…

  • Medieval Britain in 1979

    Leslie Webster, Leslie E Webster et al.ARTICLEMedieval Archaeology1980Cited by: 1

  • Post-Medieval Britain in 1978

    John F Cherry, John CherryARTICLEPost-Medieval Archaeology1979

    KINNAGOE BAY, CO. DONEGAL: La Trinidad Valencera. Colin Martin of the Institute of Maritime Archaeology, University of St. Andrews, reports that two more organic deposits were excavated in 1978 (c£ Post-Medieval Archaeol., 10 (1976), 161). The fmds included a wooden lantern, pike staves, musket and arquebus stocks, wooden powder flasks, a tambourine, various turned wooden vessels and utensils, barrel staves and ends, and roughly cut handspikes. A…

  • Medieval Britain in 1978

    Leslie Webster, Leslie E Webster et al.ARTICLEMedieval Archaeology1979Cited by: 1

  • Post-Medieval Britain in 1977

    John F Cherry, John CherryARTICLEPost-Medieval Archaeology1978

    KENT: BEKESBOURNE (TR 193555). Excavations supervised by T. Tatton Brown were conducted on a small area of the Old Palace, a 16th-century Archiepiscopal Palace which had been cut through by a modern drainage trench. Massive brick wall foundations and a great brick drain (with associated garde robes) were found. The Palace, which was built on a large scale between 1540 and c. 1600 by Archbishops Cranmer, Parker and Whitgift, had a short life as it…

  • Excavations at Longton Hall Porcelain Factory. Part 1

    Hugh Tait, John F Cherry et al.ARTICLEPost-Medieval Archaeology1978Cited by: 3

    (1978). Excavations at Longton Hall Porcelain Factory. Part 1. Post-Medieval Archaeology: Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 1-29