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Obituary : Antony Charles Thomas | 13 Proc Soc Antiq Scot 145 (2015), 13–16 OBITUARY : ANTONY CHARLES THOMAS | 13 Obituary Antony Charles Thomas 26 April 1928 – 7 April 2016 Professor Charles Thomas was a pioneer of he volunteered for the army and served with Early Christian archaeology in Britain and a the Royal Army Ordnance Corps in Egypt, a champion of Cornish Studies who made a lasting posting which reinforced a deep-seated interest impact on Scottish and Celtic scholarship. in archaeology. Following his army service, he Born in Cornwall, he was a lifelong Cornish studied Jurisprudence at Corpus Christi College, activist, from being a founding member of Oxford (1948–51). While studying law he also Mebyon Kernow, a Cornish nationalist party, to began excavating, notably at Gwithian, a sand- establishing and directing the Institute of Cornish covered multi-period site owned by his family, Studies, but his interests embraced the entirety which would nurture a number of prominent of the British Isles, with a particular focus on archaeologists. Rather than practice law, Thomas the Celtic west. Although comfortable with studied prehistoric archaeology with V Gordon prehistoric monuments and an early advocate Childe at the Institute of Archaeology (1951–3). of multi-period landscape studies, his most While working part-time as a tutor for the enduring contributions to Scottish archaeology Workers’ Educational Association in Cornwall relate to the early medieval period. (1954–8), he continued to excavate at Gwithian After his primary education in Cornwall, (1949–63), where he recognised distinctive forms Thomas attended Winchester College. In 1945 of late Roman pottery, similar to that previously 14 | SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF SCOTLAND, 2015 excavated by C A Ralegh Radford at Tintagel. rediscovery of the excavation archives (in Realising the importance of this body of material, Cornwall) has allowed Ewan Campbell and he returned to Oxford to start on a doctorate, Adrián Maldonado (2016) to finally reveal the which led to the establishment of the well-known value of that work. alphabet classification of post-Roman imported Altogether more satisfactory were Thomas’ pottery (eg B-ware, E-ware), which remains the excavations of the chapel and burial ground pillar of early medieval chronology in the west on the uninhabited tidal island of Ardwall, off of Britain and Ireland. The original publication the Kirkcudbright coast (1964–5), which he in Medieval Archaeology in 1959 was updated encountered while digging at Trusty’s Law, by Thomas in 1981 and subsequently was Gatehouse of Fleet. Ardwall remains the clearest substantially revised and expanded by Ewan excavated example of an early church and Campbell in 2007. burial ground in Scotland because it fell out of The outstanding discoveries at the multi- use relatively early in the Middle Ages and was period landscape at the Gwithian, his earliest well-preserved. Whether the proposed sequence forays into church archaeology (Nendrum and chronology will survive the rigours of a monastery, Co Down (1954); East Porth chapel, future detailed 14C dating programme remains Teän, Isles of Scilly (1956); Iona Abbey, to be seen, but for the moment it remains a Argyll (1956–63)), and the serious scholarly type-site. He also sought evidence for the short- endeavour of the pottery research secured lived Northumbrian See at Abercorn (1965) Thomas a lectureship at Edinburgh University without success. Although not involved with (1958–67). This appointment provided a the excavations at St Ninian’s Isle, Thomas platform for further excavations at ecclesiastical contributed his early Christian expertise to the sites and established his reputation as the heir publication of the hoard, not least in recognising to Radford as the leading authority on the Early the similarity of the shrine-posts to those he Church in post-Roman western Britain. The found at Iona (1973). opportunity to work closely with Stuart Piggott A conspicuous feature of Thomas’ scholarly also inspired his ground-breaking work on endeavour was his focus on early medieval Pictish sculpture. inscriptions, which connected all of the areas Thomas’ work at Iona was supported by the where he chose to work: Cornwall, Wales, Russell Trust, which was also sponsoring the Scotland, Ireland and France. Perhaps his first Iona Community’s restoration of the Abbey, sustained investigation of inscriptions was a under the leadership of Revd George MacLeod, major reinterpretation of Pictish symbol stones a fellow Old Wykehamist. Although MacLeod (1961; 1963), which combined archaeological reportedly took a limited interest in the search contexts and imaginative interpretations of the for the Columban monastery, the old school symbols to suggest seeing them as markers connection may have helped smooth relations of social identity. He saw them as the product between the restorers and excavators. The of a native Iron Age tradition of carving, a excavations, which were scattered across the unique northern British expression of status site, mostly in small slit trenches, were rapidly and affiliation. While the very specific readings dug by small teams and, although the tantalising he proposed for individual symbols have not evidence from the early medieval horizons found universal favour, the idea that symbols achieved legendary status (not least because had a memorial function has survived and there of the eminent archaeologists engaged there: can be no question that his study revitalised Peter and Elizabeth Fowler, Vincent Megaw, interest in Pictish symbols. It was his sensitivity Richard Reece and Bernard Wailes), it was never to the interplay between setting and inscription properly published. The recent redisplay of the that marks out Thomas’ contribution to the site by Historic Scotland (led by Peter Yeoman) scholarship on the post-Roman inscriptions drew upon Thomas’ findings and the subsequent of southern Scotland, Wales and Cornwall. He OBITUARY : ANTONY CHARLES THOMAS | 15 was one of the first to identify the unifying features of the inscribed stones found on the periphery of the later Roman Empire. In many important respects he set the agenda for recent studies of early medieval sculpture, with their emphasis on landscape context. He retained an enthusiasm for the inscriptions throughout his career: every new potential ogham found in the south-west resulted in a phone call to his preferred ogham consultant in Glasgow. Always interested in how the inscriptions could be used to construct historical narratives, latterly he became increasingly interested in numerological readings of the early medieval inscriptions (1994); this controversial strand of his work has not been widely embraced. Edinburgh saw the start of a distinguished academic career: it was followed by his Photo: © The Charles Thomas Estate appointment as the first Professor of Archaeology in Leicester (1967–71) and subsequently Director of the Institute of Cornish Studies, Lectures on ‘The Origins of Insular Monasticism’ University of Exeter (1971–91). The return in 1999. Fittingly, he delivered the first annual to Cornwall marked an end to his excavation Whithorn Lecture in 1992. He was elected work: as director of the institute he promoted Honorary Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of a wide range of cultural studies and champion- Scotland in 2000. ing other excavators; for instance, he was In reflecting on his legacy, there is a instrumental in supporting the new investigations substantial body of scholarship. He wrote at Tintagel, undertaken by the Glasgow team twenty books, mostly on archaeology, but also of Chris Morris and Colleen Batey. More on Cornish history, as well as dozens of articles, generally, he played a leading role serving on along with some poetry. Not surprisingly, his the boards of various national heritage bodies most ambitious work, Exploration of a Drowned and his contributions to the profession were Landscape (1985) related to Cornwall, a study acknowledged through his fellowship in the which is particularly noteworthy for drawing British Academy (1989), a CBE (1991) and upon a wide range of source material to write honorary degrees at Oxford (1983) and the long-term landscape history. That said, his NU Ireland (1996). One measure of his public influence was strong throughout the British esteem in Scotland is that he coined the names Isles and especially powerful in Scotland, Strathclyde and Grampian used in the local particularly because his innovative studies of government reorganisation of 1974. early Christianity were largely inspired by his Although he no longer taught archaeology Scottish experience. after leaving Leicester, he inspired generations Given their similar career trajectories, it is of students and was an engaging speaker as those hard not to compare Thomas with Leslie Alcock. who saw his major public lectures can attest. He Both served in the army at the end of the Second gave the Dalrymple Lectures in Glasgow twice: World War, before going to Oxford. Both served in 1969 on ‘The Early Christian Archaeology of archaeological apprenticeships (Alcock with North Britain’ and in 1992 on ‘And Shall these Wheeler, Thomas with Childe) before moving Mute Stones Speak? Archaeology, History and into academic posts. As if by some unwritten Insular Memorials’ and he delivered the Rhind agreement, Alcock largely concentrated on 16 | SOCIETY OF ANTIQUARIES OF SCOTLAND, 2015 secular archaeology, while Thomas was drawn 1961 ‘The animal art of the Scottish Iron Age and to ecclesiastical themes. They never worked its origins, Archaeological Journal 118: in Scotland at the same time, which is perhaps 14–64. just as well as their archaeological relationship 1963 ‘The interpretation of the Pictish Symbols, was at times a little prickly. Despite not working Archaeological Journal 120: 31–97. together, Alcock and Thomas set the agenda for 1971 The Early Christian Archaeology of North post-Roman Celtic studies after the war. In many Britain. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ways, Thomas was more of an ideas-person, 1973 St Ninian’s Isle and its Treasure. Aberdeen: while Alcock was more focused on excavation University of Aberdeen Press.
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