Yorkshire Philosophical Society

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Dr Tania Dickinson, Honorary Fellow and formerly Senior Lecturer, Department of Archaeology, University of York

The ‘Acomb area’ assemblage is an unexpected chance find, recently acquired under the terms of The Treasure Act 1996 by the Yorkshire Museum. It consists of fragments from a gold-and-garnet decorated composite disc brooch and a dozen beads dating from the seventh century AD, the early Anglo-Saxon or, in Yorkshire, the Anglian period. The talk will recount how and how far it has been possible to recover the original appearance of the brooch and to place the assemblage in its original context – almost certainly a rich female burial. In so doing, it will illustrate processes and problems of acquiring archaeological and historical knowledge from artefacts, especially chance finds.

Lecture to be held in the Tempest Anderson Lecture Theatre, Yorkshire Museum,
YO1 7DR at 2.30pm

ALL WELCOME.

Image caption: The ‘Acomb area’ assemblage (YORYM: 2018.153). © York Museums Trust.