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.
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. The project would like to thank the British Academy for a recent award of £5000 to the project and Caroline Higgitt, wife of the late John Higgitt, for her generous donation of £10000 towards the continued cost of the monograph series. In addition we are delighted to be able to gratefully acknowledge the recent award of substantial addtitional funding from The Sainsbury Family Charitable Trust.
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*NOW OUT* Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture, Volume IX, Cheshire and Lancashire. By Richard Bailey. With contributions by C. Roger Bristow, Derek Craig, Ken Jukes, David N. Parsons and Ross Trench-Jellicoe. xiv + 522 pages, 743 black & white plates, 20 figures, 4 tables. Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press 2010 (available February 2011) ISBN 978-0-19-726462-1, Price £70.00 hardback. |
Funding for CASSS!
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We are delighted to announce that CASSS has successfully won support for the contination of the project from the Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts. An award of £120, 000 will allow CASSS to continue with the production of the next three volumes from 2011-2014. The financial support from the Sainsbury Trusts has been awarded specifically towards the production of the monograph series. This good news comes swiftly after our recent successful application to the Pilgrim Trust which brought CASSS additional funding of £10,000. This has continued to facilitate research and data collection by Dr. Derek Craig on the Anglo-Saxon sculpture of Norfolk. |
The CASSS website
After the recent news of successful funding for the CASSS monograph series the project has taken the difficult and temporary step of removing access to the problematic CASSS website. We are still working with the assistance of the members of the University library service to establish the breadth of data stored in the digital archive and to ensure that we can make this data available in a searchable format and archive it safely for the future with the Archaeological Data Service. The results of a funding application are currently awaited which will facilitate the safe archiving of data and temporary repairs to the site. If successful, this small grant will also facilitate the preparation of a larger bid for funding for the rebuidling of the entire site in due course.
Some data from the original site has been temporarily transferred to these pages including the Grammar of Anglo-Saxon Ornament and the extensive bibliographies. We emphasise that these are temporary measures and we hope to build on the recent success of funding for the volumes with a bid for money to reinstate a new and fully functional, up-to-date website for the project.
