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

在我们的教堂、教堂墓地或英国路边幸存下来的石雕是一种强大而雄辩的遗产。它们通常是盎格鲁-撒克逊人在一个地点定居的最早证据，通常也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，反映了他们的赞助人的愿望，以及他们的雕刻师的技能。因此，雕塑是一种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接触范围内，但许多人仍然不知道它们的存在或意义。在这个项目的最后阶段，通过汇集一个强大的考古，艺术史和历史专家团队，我们可以提出与研究区域和整个语料库相关的主要问题。WiST将完成对英格兰盎格鲁-撒克逊石雕每一个碎片的长期研究。自1976年以来，该项目已经出版了13卷，提供了来自32个英国县的3500多件雕塑的详细，一致的报道，包括位置，发现，石头类型，条件，纪念碑属性和日期的信息。结合建立语料库的专业知识和知识和技能，从四个独立的机构（坎特伯雷，达勒姆，莱斯特，约克），我们将完成剩余的卷，并与他们，c。莱斯特郡、北安普敦郡、拉特兰（XIV）;亨廷顿郡、剑桥郡（XV）、诺福克、萨福克郡（XVI）的雕塑作品增加了800件。以此为基础，我们将调查地区内和跨地区的整个生产过程，从采石到运输和展示。需要更多的研究生产，年表，对图像和装饰图式的预期视觉和美学影响，以及区域或赞助人的口味是否影响了某些风格和形式的纪念碑。选择部署纪念碑和装饰建筑物;通过考虑雕塑可能的原始设置，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为不同观众运作的方式。最后，形式/装饰的区域变化表明，雕塑被用来表示不同的联系和联系。我们将在语料库卷中探索这些问题，并通过一系列涉及学术，早期职业和非学术利益相关者的研讨会，开发一个合作卷-在石头上工作-对国家数据集的第一次深入询问。一个国际会议和编辑的卷也将开放讨论到欧洲，美国和超越，刺激跨区域的比较和跨国辩论，并制定未来的议程。提高认识，这一资源与新的受益者是我们工作的重要组成部分。为此，我们将利用专业的计算支持，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，详细介绍了约4000多件雕塑和9000多幅相关图像，以及最先进的3D模型。到日期C。每年有3700名在线用户访问我们的数据，其中c。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群。我们将在整个语料库中进行搜索，允许所有用户绘制和调查单个雕塑;通过社交媒体在全球范围内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他们当地的雕塑信息。与考古数据服务一起，我们将为未来保护我们的数字资源，确保学术，非学术和商业用户长期广泛访问它们。

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.