Cyril Fox
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3642103 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Cyril Fox |
| PRENOMES | Cyril |
| SOBRENOME | Fox |
| ASSINATURA | FOX C |
| AFILIAÇÕES | National Museum Wales |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 57 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 75 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 57 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1923 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2012 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Archaeology of the Cambridge Region
The Archaeology of the Cambridge Region
Sir Cyril Fox (1882–1967) was an archaeologist and later Director of the National Museum of Wales and President of the Museums Association. Having entered Magdalene College, Cambridge as a mature student, his first year dissertation was judged to be more suitable as a PhD thesis, which resulted in him progressing straight to his PhD. His doctoral thesis, reissued here, transformed archaeological thought when it was first published in 1923. In it …
A Celtic Mirror from Great Chesterford
The mirror is likely to have come from a lady's grave: no details of the find are available. There is in the parish a well-known cemetery dating from the beginning of the Early Iron Age.The overall length of the mirror with its handle (PLATE XXVI) is 23·5 cm. (11·75 in.); the diameter of the plate is 16·3 cm. (8·15 in.). This has a delicate incised line round its circumference, close to the edge, back and front, as the photographs show.The face o…
Wansdyke Reconsidered
Barrow Excavations in the Eight Beatitudes
BARROW EXCAVATIONS IN THE EIGHT BEATITUDES: The Bronze Age Cemetery between Toterfout and Halve Mill, North Brabant, Holland. By W. Glasbergern. J. B. Wolters, Groningen, 1954. 27.50 Dutch gelders. - Volume 29 Issue 113
Triskeles, Palmettes and Horse-Brooches
This paper deals with an unusual example of the triskele and the significance of the pattern in general; and with the intrusion of scrolls and palmettes which transformed it. One of the later patterns thus evolved, decorates a horse-brooch; and the paper ends with a discussion of the function of these newly-identified objects
Cyril Fox Armorican ART
Cyril Fox Armorican ART: a new and enlarged edition of the article published in the Bull. Soc. Fersiaise, 1937; by N. V. L. Rybot, Soc. Fersiaise, 9 Pier road, Fersey. Price not stated but ascertained to be 3s. - Volume 27 Issue 108
Two Celtic bronzes from Lough Gur, Limerick, Ireland
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A bronze pole-sheath from the Charioteer's Barrow, Arras, Yorkshire
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The Incised Ornament on the Celtic Mirror from Colchester, Essex
The Colchester Celtic mirror has been known to students of the period since a photograph of it was published by Henry Laver in the Proceedings of our Society (x·x, 1905, p. 213) as one object in an important grave-group. Laver noted that the back of that portion of the mirror-plate which is preserved is ‘ornamented with a spiral pattern’, but this pattern is not to be seen in the reproduction. Another reference in the literature is that by R. A. …
I. Reflections on The Archaeology of the Cambridge Region
Nearly a quarter of a century has elapsed since The Archaeology of the Cambridge Region was published by the Cambridge University Press, and a proposal by the Committee of the Journal that I should write down my afterthoughts on that book and such ‘considerations as I might wish to put to students at the present day’ was a compliment an author could not but appreciate, and an opportunity he could not refuse
An Open-Work Bronze Disc in the Ashmolean Museum
The linear patterns on British mirrors and other bronzes show with what zest the Celtic craftsmen of the first centuries B.C. and A.D. copied and adapted the triquetral design in relief exemplified on the well-known bronze plaque from Llyn Cerrig Bach, Anglesey (fig. 1). On the other hand, the evidence for the continued use and development of this attractive asymmetric motif in plastic art is but slight, and any additional example of fine metalwo…
Anniversary Address
The loss which the Society has suffered by the death of Sir George Hill has been referred to at length, and in very appropriate terms, by the Secretary: but I wish at the outset of this address to pay a personal tribute to his memory, as one who has received many kindnesses from him, and benefited from the wealth and extent of specialized knowledge he was so generous in imparting. Sir George represented the finest flower of that exact scholarship…
Linear Earthworks
The Council has decided that the study (primarily the survey) of boundary dykes and defensive linear earthworks shall be the major scheme of research to be sponsored by the Society. It is desirable that reports intended for publication by those workers who will take part in this research shall be prepared on agreed lines, in order to facilitate comparative study of the diverse material thus gathered; it will be appreciated (to take only one point…
Ancient India
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The Personality of Britain
Life in Anglesey 2000 years ago. An Early Iron Age Discovery
A Collection consisting of some 90 objects of bronze and iron which touches life and art in Celtic antiquity at more points than any deposit hitherto found in Wales was discovered in 1943 a few miles from Holyhead, Anglesey. It has now become the property of the National Museum of Wales at Cardiff, the principal donor being Mr Evan R. Hughes, of Holyhead. The collection includes weapons—fragmentary swords and daggers and spears; indestructible el…
III.— A Bronze Age Barrow (Sutton 268′) in Llandow Parish, Glamorganshire
The Lias peneplain of the Vale of Glamorgan west of the Thaw valley forms an undulating plateau dissected by streams, the higher portions being from 250 to 300 ft. above sea level. One of the larger of these upland areas, that on which Wick village is sited, is some four miles in length by two in breadth. An outlier on the north-east extends this upland nearly to Cowbridge
A Beaker Barrow, Enlarged in the Middle Bronze Age, at South Hill, Talbenny, Pembrokeshire
(1942). A Beaker Barrow, Enlarged in the Middle Bronze Age, at South Hill, Talbenny, Pembrokeshire. Archaeological Journal: Vol. 99, No. 1, pp. 1-32
Some South Pembrokeshire Cottages
In 1937 the writer described in ANTIQUITY a series of cottages-the dwellings of crofters-in Llanychaer and adjacent parishes of northern Pembrokeshire. These were two-roomed stone structures with a central doorway on one side: the door opened into the living room where the most striking sight was the great open fireplace at the gable end, the chimney structure of which projected into the room. A number of such dwellings has recently been examined…
Stake-Circles in Turf Barrows
The three Barrows described in this paper are in the northern part of Llantwit Major parish in the Vale of Glamorgan. Being nameless, they are defined by ( a ) the nearest farmstead, and ( b ) the height of their crests above O.D. The work of excavation was begun on 5th December 1939 and finished on 25th February 1940. It was thus carried out during the severest winter weather of modern times. Alternations of frost and thaw played havoc with sect…
A Datable 'Ritual Barrow' in Glamorganshire
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Notices of Archaeological Publications
The Socketed Bronze Sickles of the British Isles; with special reference to an unpublished specimen from Norwich
In 1934 a schoolboy found ‘under a rubbish heap, but practically on the surface’ within the boundaries of the city of Norwich a socketed sickle (fig. 1, and pl. xxv, 14). The type is familiar to students of the Bronze Age since Wilde published an Irish example in his Catalogue of Antiquities in the National Museum at Dublin. The present handsome and perfect specimen, which I publish by courtesy of the Corporation of Norwich, and of the Curator of…
A Second Cauldron and an Iron Sword from the Llyn Fawr Hoard, Rhigos, Glamorganshire
A unique assemblage of twenty-one objects belonging to the Bronze—Iron transition was discovered over a quarter of a century ago, in a peaty mountain tarn at Llyn Fawr, Glamorgan, 1,200 ft. above Ordnance datum; pl. LXXI shows its position. The hoard came to light when the lake was drained in the course of its transformation into a reservoir: it was presented to the National Museum of Wales by the Rhondda Urban District Council and was published …
The Personality of Britain
A Second Cauldron and an Iron Sword from the Llyn Fawr Hoard, Rhigos, Glamorganshire
A unique assemblage of twenty-one objects belonging to the Bronze—Iron transition was discovered over a quarter of a century ago, in a peaty mountain tarn at Llyn Fawr, Glamorgan, 1,200 ft. above Ordnance datum; pl. LXXI shows its position. The hoard came to light when the lake was drained in the course of its transformation into a reservoir: it was presented to the National Museum of Wales by the Rhondda Urban District Council and was published …
A ‘Dug-out’ Canoe from South Wales
In September 1925, Mr. Thomas Jenkins, a carpenter of Llangorse, Breconshire, recovered a dug-out canoe of oak from Llangorse Lake. This lake is situated six miles to the east-ward of the county town. It is about 500 ft. above sea-level, in the valley and near the source of the stream known as Afon Llynfi, which flows northward (into the Wye) along the western escarpment of the Black Mountains. The lake is a mile in length and in greatest breadth…
The Incised Ornament on the Celtic Mirror from Colchester, Essex
The Colchester Celtic mirror has been known to students of the period since a photograph of it was published by Henry Laver in the Proceedings of our Society (x·x, 1905, p. 213) as one object in an important grave-group. Laver noted that the back of that portion of the mirror-plate which is preserved is ‘ornamented with a spiral pattern’, but this pattern is not to be seen in the reproduction. Another reference in the literature is that by R. A. …
Stake-Circles in Turf Barrows
The three Barrows described in this paper are in the northern part of Llantwit Major parish in the Vale of Glamorgan. Being nameless, they are defined by ( a ) the nearest farmstead, and ( b ) the height of their crests above O.D. The work of excavation was begun on 5th December 1939 and finished on 25th February 1940. It was thus carried out during the severest winter weather of modern times. Alternations of frost and thaw played havoc with sect…
I. Reflections on The Archaeology of the Cambridge Region
Nearly a quarter of a century has elapsed since The Archaeology of the Cambridge Region was published by the Cambridge University Press, and a proposal by the Committee of the Journal that I should write down my afterthoughts on that book and such ‘considerations as I might wish to put to students at the present day’ was a compliment an author could not but appreciate, and an opportunity he could not refuse
The Archaeology of the Cambridge Region
A Celtic Mirror from Great Chesterford
The mirror is likely to have come from a lady's grave: no details of the find are available. There is in the parish a well-known cemetery dating from the beginning of the Early Iron Age.The overall length of the mirror with its handle (PLATE XXVI) is 23·5 cm. (11·75 in.); the diameter of the plate is 16·3 cm. (8·15 in.). This has a delicate incised line round its circumference, close to the edge, back and front, as the photographs show.The face o…
The Presidential Address for 1933
I desire first of all to express my appreciation of the honour you have done me in electing me President of the Society. Faced with the necessity of choosing a subject suitable for a Presidential Address, it occurred to me that a brief survey of the distribution of Man in East Anglia during the Neolithic, Bronze and Early Iron Ages might be appropriate. Selection of the region wherein the Society was born, and which inspired the fruitful work of …
Two Celtic bronzes from Lough Gur, Limerick, Ireland
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Anniversary Address
The loss which the Society has suffered by the death of Sir George Hill has been referred to at length, and in very appropriate terms, by the Secretary: but I wish at the outset of this address to pay a personal tribute to his memory, as one who has received many kindnesses from him, and benefited from the wealth and extent of specialized knowledge he was so generous in imparting. Sir George represented the finest flower of that exact scholarship…
The Personality of Britain
The Socketed Bronze Sickles of the British Isles; with special reference to an unpublished specimen from Norwich
In 1934 a schoolboy found ‘under a rubbish heap, but practically on the surface’ within the boundaries of the city of Norwich a socketed sickle (fig. 1, and pl. xxv, 14). The type is familiar to students of the Bronze Age since Wilde published an Irish example in his Catalogue of Antiquities in the National Museum at Dublin. The present handsome and perfect specimen, which I publish by courtesy of the Corporation of Norwich, and of the Curator of…
Dykes
Dykes have been described as travelling, running or linear earthworks. All these terms express their essential character, that of a bank, usually of earth but occasionally of loose stone, extending for a considerable distance across country. The existence of a bank presupposes an adjacent ditch from which its material was derived, and the descriptive term Ditch is as common as Dyke in the nomenclature of linear earthworks. Both terms have indeed …
A Late Celtic Bronze Mirror from Wales
The two objects shown in the illustrations, a bronze mirror and a platter of tinned bronze, were found together at Pant Fadog, on the farm of Llechwedd Du Bach, near the road from Talsarnau to Harlech, in Merioneth, about sixty-five years ago. The farm was in the occupation of the late owner of the mirror and platter, Mr. John Lloyd; and these have been presented to the National Museum of Wales in memory of his family, the Lloyds of Cwmbychan
Wansdyke Reconsidered
A bronze pole-sheath from the Charioteer's Barrow, Arras, Yorkshire
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An Open-Work Bronze Disc in the Ashmolean Museum
The linear patterns on British mirrors and other bronzes show with what zest the Celtic craftsmen of the first centuries B.C. and A.D. copied and adapted the triquetral design in relief exemplified on the well-known bronze plaque from Llyn Cerrig Bach, Anglesey (fig. 1). On the other hand, the evidence for the continued use and development of this attractive asymmetric motif in plastic art is but slight, and any additional example of fine metalwo…
Linear Earthworks
The Council has decided that the study (primarily the survey) of boundary dykes and defensive linear earthworks shall be the major scheme of research to be sponsored by the Society. It is desirable that reports intended for publication by those workers who will take part in this research shall be prepared on agreed lines, in order to facilitate comparative study of the diverse material thus gathered; it will be appreciated (to take only one point…
A Datable 'Ritual Barrow' in Glamorganshire
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Sleds, Carts and Waggons
While engaged in field work near Llanbister in Radnorshire, the writer saw by the roadside, near a country wheelwright's shop, a remarkable vehicle the like of which he had never imagined. On being questioned, the wheelwright said that it was a 'wheel-car ' and was of a standard type used throughout the Radnor forest area (and indeed, as was afterwards learned, throughout the central moorland of Wales). It had been made entirely by himself and hi…
The Early Iron Age Site at Findon Park, Findon, Sussex
The generosity of an anonymous benefactor to the Research Fund of the Society enabled further work to be carried out in 1927 on the Findon Park Iron Age village site, which is situated just above the 500-ft. contour on a broad flat southward-sloping ridge one mile to the north of Cissbury. We wished to obtain information as to the range of date of the occupation, and the culture of the inhabitants, additional to that reported in Archaeologia , Ix…
An ‘Encrusted’ Urn of the Bronze Age from Wales
On 26th March 1926 a cist burial was discovered by the grave-digger in the cemetery of Penllwyn Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, near Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire. Notice of the find was sent to Mr. George Eyre Evans, of Aberystwyth, and the buried cist was examined by him and the minister of the congregation, the Rev. M. H. Jones, B.A. I cannot do better than quote the account of the cist and its contents written down by the former immediately after …
The Cole Ambrose collection of Cambridgeshire antiquities
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Early Iron Age Settlement and Anglian Burials at Foxton, Cambs
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An unrecorded Bronze Hoard from Essex
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Excavations in the Cambridgeshire Dykes
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Excavation of a barrow in north-west Suffolk
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An unusual Beaker from Huntingdonshire
A recent addition to the Museum of Archaeology and of Ethnology, Cambridge, is due to Mr. G. E. Daintree, of Boughton, Stoke Ferry, Norfolk, and I have to thank the Curator, our Fellow Mr. L. C. G. Clarke, for permission to publish it
A Jug of the Anglo-Saxon Period
Our Fellow Mr. E. T. Leeds, in his account of the Asthall barrow in Oxfordshire ( Antiquaries Journal , iv, 122), records the occurrence of a vase of wheelmade ware decorated with an angular pattern impressed with a roller stamp. This is dated by the associated bronzes, which are of seventh-century type
The Archaeology of the Cambridge Region
A Late Celtic Bronze Mirror from Wales
The two objects shown in the illustrations, a bronze mirror and a platter of tinned bronze, were found together at Pant Fadog, on the farm of Llechwedd Du Bach, near the road from Talsarnau to Harlech, in Merioneth, about sixty-five years ago. The farm was in the occupation of the late owner of the mirror and platter, Mr. John Lloyd; and these have been presented to the National Museum of Wales in memory of his family, the Lloyds of Cwmbychan
A ‘Dug-out’ Canoe from South Wales
In September 1925, Mr. Thomas Jenkins, a carpenter of Llangorse, Breconshire, recovered a dug-out canoe of oak from Llangorse Lake. This lake is situated six miles to the east-ward of the county town. It is about 500 ft. above sea-level, in the valley and near the source of the stream known as Afon Llynfi, which flows northward (into the Wye) along the western escarpment of the Black Mountains. The lake is a mile in length and in greatest breadth…
A Late Celtic fire-dog
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An ‘Encrusted’ Urn of the Bronze Age from Wales
On 26th March 1926 a cist burial was discovered by the grave-digger in the cemetery of Penllwyn Calvinistic Methodist Chapel, near Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire. Notice of the find was sent to Mr. George Eyre Evans, of Aberystwyth, and the buried cist was examined by him and the minister of the congregation, the Rev. M. H. Jones, B.A. I cannot do better than quote the account of the cist and its contents written down by the former immediately after …
Encrusted urns
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The Early Iron Age Site at Findon Park, Findon, Sussex
The generosity of an anonymous benefactor to the Research Fund of the Society enabled further work to be carried out in 1927 on the Findon Park Iron Age village site, which is situated just above the 500-ft. contour on a broad flat southward-sloping ridge one mile to the north of Cissbury. We wished to obtain information as to the range of date of the occupation, and the culture of the inhabitants, additional to that reported in Archaeologia , Ix…
Dykes
Dykes have been described as travelling, running or linear earthworks. All these terms express their essential character, that of a bank, usually of earth but occasionally of loose stone, extending for a considerable distance across country. The existence of a bank presupposes an adjacent ditch from which its material was derived, and the descriptive term Ditch is as common as Dyke in the nomenclature of linear earthworks. Both terms have indeed …
Notices of Archaeological Publications
A La Tène Weight from Winchester
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Kidwelly Castle, Carmarthenshire
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Offa's Dyke
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Sleds, Carts and Waggons
While engaged in field work near Llanbister in Radnorshire, the writer saw by the roadside, near a country wheelwright's shop, a remarkable vehicle the like of which he had never imagined. On being questioned, the wheelwright said that it was a 'wheel-car ' and was of a standard type used throughout the Radnor forest area (and indeed, as was afterwards learned, throughout the central moorland of Wales). It had been made entirely by himself and hi…
Notices Of Archaeological Publications
V.— Kidwelly Castle, Carmarthenshire ; including a Survey of the Polychrome Pottery found there and elsewhere in Britain
Excavations designed to throw light on the evolution of this castle, and to obtain a series of stratified potsherds were carried out in August, 1930, by one of us, and the results obtained were checked and extended by both of us in further excavations carried out in March, 1931. The work was necessarily limited in respect of the area examined, and in time (ten days in all), but it is hoped that the results are sufficiently suggestive for permanen…
The Presidential Address for 1933
I desire first of all to express my appreciation of the honour you have done me in electing me President of the Society. Faced with the necessity of choosing a subject suitable for a Presidential Address, it occurred to me that a brief survey of the distribution of Man in East Anglia during the Neolithic, Bronze and Early Iron Ages might be appropriate. Selection of the region wherein the Society was born, and which inspired the fruitful work of …
Notices of Archaeological Publications
Two Anglo-Saxon bone carvings
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