Glevensis 31

An archaeological analysis of a Grade I listed building that has been variously employed as a proprietary church or manorial chapel, possible domestic residence, threshing barn, cow shed, pig house and tractor shed.

Whalebone casket thought to have been made in Mercia or Northumbria during the seventh century, carved with Biblical, Classical and Germanic scenes and having AS runic inscriptions on all four sides is analysed. An appendix presents tables of readings, Anglo-Saxon glossary and translation (21).

Review of evidence from the Roman to modern eras. The importance of accurate and painstaking recording work is emphasised.

Fieldwalking evidence for Late Neo settlement somewhere in the area.

Possibly derived from `Magdalen' via various corruptions.

Notes on Sir John de la Rivere of Tormarton's chantry chapel and brass matrix.

1997 work on Room 8, part of the south wing, and recording of a mosaic at the northern end of the West Range portico.

Note on two onion-form dark green glass wine bottles, of a type common in the early-eighteenth century.