Gathering Fruit at Ingleby. An Early Medieval Sculptural Fragment from Ingleby, Derbyshire
Jane Hawkes
AbstractThe carved stone fragment from Ingleby in Derbyshire has attracted little attention the scholarly literature on medieval sculpture, largely because question of its date been considered particularly unclear. It thus raises interesting questions about dating, nature models lying behind carving, and iconographic significances, relevance which extend far beyond Derbyshire. Here piece is examined light Anglo-Saxon art, situated within context later 9th 10th century, but produced under influence artistic conventions dating back to preceding century Insular world Carolingian Gaul, turn look art late antiquity. The article argues for visual traditions illustration agricultural tools rather than that objects perhaps familiar England, suggests unusual depiction harvesting, only paralleled elsewhere art...
Journal of the British Archaeological Association