110 111 purpose, Wells should have been I,15) . Although we can tentatively Merovingian period metalwork from Roman to Medieval times . able to abandon the descriptive identify 'Angles' and 'Saxons' in Lower Saxony. level of his analysis and expand the material from archaeological The six English papers tackle A useful feature of this fest­ the general model through its ap­ excavations, 'Jutes' have always a wide range of subjects on settle­ schrift must be the comprehensive plication to the specific situa­ proved difficult to locate with ments, artefacts and cemeteries. bibliography of Myres' published tion, and such work has been done certainty. These eternal problems , Catherine Hills discusses the works . However, the book has a few with far greater expertise and suc­ then, could be seen as inspira­ origin and dating of barred zoo­ shortcomings. There is no index and cess by Frankenstein and Rowlands. tional for the papers in this book. morphic bone combs, many of which some of the Continental papers hav~ It is therefore difficult to see All the contributors refer, in some have been found in her excavation been translated into English and that Wells' book makes any original way, to one of these three peoples, at Spong Hill. Vera Evison presents seem to have lost their original contribution to, or expands on, whether on the Continent or in distribution maps of certain early crispness in the process . The these earlier studies of essential­ England, The title of this fest­ artefact types and aims to demon­ figures and maps and bibliographies ly the same problem. schrift could be called an all­ strate parallels between some for each paper come after the embracing one; it signifies not English grave groups and 4th/5th paper's text but the plates are * * * only the peoples on whose material century 'Germanic' burials on the grouped together at the back of the culture Myres based most of his Continent. Leslie Alcock's paper volume. Angles, Saxons and Jutes is VERA I . EVISON, ed., Angles, Saxons pottery studies, but also the deals with the small number of a specialist bo~interest pro­ and Jutes. Essay! Presented to varied nature of the contributions Anglian graves in Bernicia a nd bably to a limited number of mainly :f:N.L. Mfres. Ox ord University made to the volume by many of his compares the sparse material with ~g~o-Saxon scholars, and its spe­ Press, Ox ord, 1981. 255pp. £20.00 friends and colleagues. There are much 'richer' cemeteries further c1f1c nature will probably limit (Hard) ISBN 0-19-813402-9. papers by English, German, Danish south. His analysis of the social its distribution to these scholars and Norwegian scholars, and each implications of the grave groups is a~d libraries. It probably has Reviewed by Carole Morris has contributed from his or her own at once interesting and refreshing little value for the non-specialist knowledge and specialist field and suggests Bernicia was still apart from the interes ting nature To scholars of the Anglo-Saxon within the scope of post-Roman basically a British, not a Saxon of the p~pers. Most of them, how­ world, J,N .L. Myres is best known North West Europe. kingdom. David Brown's paper on ever, will prove to be definitive for his life-long interest in and swastika designs not only discusses statements for many year s to come study of the pottery of this The Continental papers are this single pattern but also has just as some of the papers in E.T. period; both from England and the presented first, with the Jutes implications for the study of Leed's festschrift, Dark ~ Continental homelands of the so­ represented by two papers, one by Anglo-Saxon enamel-working in Britain , published in 1956, have called 'Angles', 'Saxons' and Hans Neuman on the parallels bet­ 6th/7th century East Anglia. Final­ survived the test of time. On these 'Jutes' who later settled in ween burial customs in Roman Iron ly, John Hurs t presents some ideas merits, and as a tribute to a great England. Most of his studies were Age Jutland, and those in later on the continuity of settlement and scholar, this book will stand. carried out as a 'part-time' ar­ burials in Kent, and the other by boundaries at Wharram Percy from chaeologist when he was Oxford's Egil Bakka on Scandinavian-type Bodley Librarian between 1948- 1965. gold bracelets found both in Con­ * * * * * * The definitive two-volume corpus of tinental and Kentish graves. The Anglo-Saxon pottery published in Continental Saxons are then repre­ 1977 mu s t be regarded as the cul­ sented by three papers . The first , mination of his work. by Peter Schmid, discusses some pottery bowl forms found in the Myr es seems always to have excavations at Feddesen Wierde. The maintained that the settlement of second, by Albert Ge nri ch, discus­ Anglo-Saxon England must be studied ses grave 119 from the ceme tery of in relation to the Angles, Saxons Liebenau and draws attention to and Jutes on the Continent . The metalwork which may be attributed precise or igin of the settlers of to an individual craftsman or work­ England, and their tribal identity, shop in the same way that Myres has long been a bone of contention. suggested for pottery manufacture. Bede l ef t us a probably insolubl e One of these pottery workshops is problem when he wrote that the the subject of a later paper in settlers came from "tribus this volume in which Barbara Green, Germaniae populis fortioribus , id Bill Milligan and Stanley West est Saxonibus, Anglis, Iutis" ("the discuss the work of the three most formidable peoples of Illington/Lackford workshop. The Germany, the Saxons, Angles and third is by Hans - Jtirgen Hassle r, Jutes" (Hi s toria Ecclesiastica who discusses late Migration to