J Brit Archaeol Ass 148

The article analyses the brooches in terms of their construction, examining all known examples (except one now lost) in detail from a practical manufacturing point of view. A number of their components are classified: cloisonné work, rims, back-plates, brooch fittings, and general construction. On the basis of this examination, clear distinctions are drawn between two groups -- those with gold cloisonné work and those with copper-alloy. Within these groups, it is further possible to draw parallels between three sets of brooches which appear likely to have had a common manufacturing source.

Excavation and architectural analysis at Kirkham Priory between 1978 and 1984 have led to a re-appraisal of the structural development of this Augustinian house which was perhaps founded in 1122 and suppressed in 1539. In particular, the early development of the church was resolved, an important western axial tower identified, and the thirteenth-century presbytery placed in context. The ground-plan of the fourteenth-century gatehouse was recovered and its twelfth-century predecessor identified. A new study of the standing remains has identified the development pattern of the claustral ranges which can now be related to the economic history of the priory. In addition, the discovery of a ceramic water-main of later-twelfth-century date provides a rare example of the use of pottery water-pipes in England. Includes

Lincoln Cathedral's Angel Choir was built in the second half of the thirteenth century to house the shrine of St Hugh of Lincoln, canonized in 1220. The Dean and Chapter sought to emulate the settings created for more venerable saints by constructing a completely new building to house his shrine. Despite considerable study of the Angel Choir the site of the shrine has not been established, neither has the site of the original burial, although contemporary documentation survives to describe the events of St Hugh's death and burial. There is sufficient evidence within the cathedral to reconstruct the sites of the original burial and the later shrines and this is supported by documentary evidence.

Description of a small copper-alloy figurine unearthed in 1993 in a garden in Haxey and identified as a herm of the fertility god Priapus.