News From Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture

The Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture (CASSS) continues to provide a detailed, authorative survey of English pre-Conquest sculpture. The project has grown from the reseach of a group of scholars studying Anglo-Saxon sculpture in the Archaeology Department of Durham University (where the project is still housed) to the point where it now involves the work of more than thirty researchers, including epigraphers and geologists, who are spread throughout the country. The project website can be consulted, although it currently has limited functionality. You will find a tab to your right that will allow you to access the original website and database. This original website is in the course of re-development. The current pages represent an interim arrangement, providing an on-line interface for the CASSS project that displays essential contact details and information on publications, progress and availability of volumes, whilst additionally offering access to the searchable index of images and original website. Areas of the website at present do not function. We are working to remedy this as quickly as possible and expect the site will have been returned to full functionality within six weeks.

Since 2009 the Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture has undergone a variety of changes. The project is no longer funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council but acknowledges on-going funding from the British Academy and to the Pilgrim Trust for recent additional funding in 2009. Our long-term project and web officer Mr. Ken Jukes has moved to a full-time post elsewhere at Durham University and the maintenance and development of the CASSS web-site will now be under University management and development.

The project would like to thank the British Academy for a recent award of £5000 to the project and Caroline Higgett, wife of the late John Higgett, for her generous donation of £10000 towards the continued cost of the monograph series. Further applications for funding are in progress and planned for 2010.