Worked in Stone: Completing the Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture

保存在我们的教堂、教堂院子或英格兰路边的石雕是一项强大而雄辩的遗产。它们通常是盎格鲁-撒克逊人在某个地点定居的最早证据，也通常是人们接受基督教的第一个证据。它们揭示了人民和地方之间的联系，有助于确定一个地区有影响力的中心，并反映了其赞助人的愿望以及雕刻者的技能。因此，雕塑代表了当地可获得的历史资源，位于数千个城市和农村社区的直接触手可及的地方，但许多人仍然没有意识到它们的存在或意义。在该项目的最后阶段，通过汇聚一支由考古、艺术、历史和历史专家组成的强大团队，我们可以提出与正在研究的地区和整个语料库有关的重大问题。维斯特将完成对英格兰盎格鲁-撒克逊石雕每一块碎片的长期研究。自1976年以来，该项目已经出版了13卷，详细、一致地涵盖了来自英国32个县的3500多件个人雕塑，包括位置、发现、石头类型、状况、古迹属性和日期等信息。结合已建立的语料库专业知识和来自四个独立机构(坎特伯雷、达勒姆、莱斯特、约克)的知识和技能，我们将完成剩余的卷，以及大约800个额外的条目，涉及莱斯特郡、北安普敦郡、拉特兰(XIV)、亨廷顿郡、剑桥郡(XV)、诺福克、萨福克(XVI)的雕塑。以此为基础，我们将调查整个生产过程，从采石，到运输和展示。需要在制作、年表、图像式和装饰性图式的预期视觉和美学影响以及地区性或宗主性的品味是否影响某些风格和形式的纪念碑方面进行更多的研究。选择布置纪念碑和装饰建筑；通过考虑雕塑可能的原始背景，我们可以更好地理解雕塑家和赞助人的意图，以及雕塑媒体针对不同观众的运作方式。最后，形式/装饰的地区差异表明，雕塑被用来表示不同的从属关系和忠诚度。我们将在语料库卷中探讨这些问题，并通过学术、职业生涯早期和非学术利益攸关方参加的一系列研讨会，开发一本协作卷--Working in Stone--这是对国家数据集的首次深入询问。一次国际会议和编辑的卷还将开启对欧洲、美国和其他地区的讨论，鼓励跨地区比较和跨国家辩论，并制定未来议程。提高对这一资源的认识，让新的受益者受益，是我们工作的重要部分。为此，我们将利用专家计算支持，发布我们的完整目录，并在全球范围内免费提供我们的数据，详细介绍约4000多件雕塑和9000多张相关图像，以及最新的最先进的3D模型。到目前为止，每年约有3700名在线用户访问我们的数据，其中约67%的用户来自英国，16%来自美国和日本。通过发展我们的在线业务和资源，我们将扩大和深化这一用户基础。我们将启用整个语料库的搜索，允许所有用户绘制和调查个人雕塑；通过社交媒体在全球推广我们的免费资源；并提供简短的在线指南，以方便公众访问。我们还将与英国地区遗产机构分享我们的数据，确保英格兰任何地方的任何人都可以访问当地的雕塑/S的信息。我们将与考古数据服务一起，确保我们未来的数字资源的安全，确保长期而言，学术、非学术和商业用户仍然可以广泛访问这些资源。

The stone sculptures which survive in our churches, churchyards or by the wayside in England, are a powerful and eloquent legacy. They are often the earliest evidence for Anglo-Saxon settlement at a site, and usually the first evidence for the acceptance by the people of Christianity. They throw light on the contacts between peoples and places, help to identify the influential centres in a region, and reflect the aspirations of their patrons, as well as the skills of their carvers. Sculptures thus represent a locally accessible historic resource that lies within the immediate reach of thousands of urban and rural communities, yet many remain unaware of their presence or significance. In this final phase of the project, by bringing together a formidable team of archaeological, art historical and historical experts, we can pose major questions relevant to the regions under study and the Corpus as a whole. WiST will bring to completion the long-running study of every fragment of Anglo-Saxon stone sculpture in England. Since 1976, the project has brought to press 13 volumes, providing detailed, consistent coverage of 3500+ individual sculptures from 32 English counties, with information on location, discovery, stone type, condition, monument attributes and date. Combining established Corpus expertise with knowledge and skills from four separate institutions (Canterbury, Durham, Leicester, York), we will complete the remaining volumes and with them, c. 800 additional entries for the sculptures of Leicestershire, Northamptonshire, Rutland (XIV); Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire (XV), Norfolk, Suffolk (XVI).Using this as a basis, we will investigate the entire production process within and across regions, from quarrying, to transport and display. More research is needed on production, chronology, on the intended visual and aesthetic impacts of iconographic and decorative schemas and whether regional or patronal tastes influenced certain styles and forms of monument. Choices were made to deploy monuments and to decorate buildings; by considering the likely original settings of sculptures, we can better understand the intentions of sculptor and patron and the ways sculptural media operated for varied audiences. Finally regional variations in form/decoration demonstrate that sculpture was used to signal different affiliations and allegiances. We will explore these questions in the Corpus volumes and, via a workshop series involving academic, early career and non-academic stakeholders, develop a collaborative volume - Worked in Stone - a first in-depth interrogation of the national data set. An international conference and edited volume will also open up discussion to Europe, the USA and beyond, stimulating cross-regional comparison and trans-national debate and setting a future agenda.Raising awareness of this resource with new beneficiaries is a vital part of our work. To this end, using expert computing support, we will release our full catalogue and make our data freely available worldwide, detailing some 4000+ sculptures and 9000+ associated images, as well as new state of the art 3-D models. To date c. 3700 online users a year access our data, with c. 67% of users coming from the UK and 16% from the USA and Japan. By developing our online presence and resources, we will broaden and deepen this user base. We will enable searches across the entire corpus, allowing all users to map and investigate individual sculptures; promote our free resources worldwide with social media; and provide short online guides to ease public access. We will also share our data with UK regional heritage agencies, ensuring anyone anywhere in England can access information on sculpture/s in their locality. Together with the Archaeology Data Service, we will secure our digital resources for the future, ensuring they remain widely accessible to academic, non-academic and commercial users in the long-term.