SCA Lecture: Dr Christina Cowart-Smith, Sculpting Lindisfarne's Story

On Tuesday 12 March, the Society for Church Archaeology was delighted to welcome Dr Christina Cowart-Smith (University of Durham), for her talk on 'Sculpting Lindisfarne’s story: The newly-discovered carved stone fragments from Holy Island, Northumberland'
Christina's talk looked into the form and context of new sculpture fragments found during eight seasons of excavation on Holy Island, Northumberland. Particular attention was given to the way in which they fitted into the wider corpus of Anglo-Saxon stone sculpture.
Christina originally studied Classics at Stanford University before completing a MLitt on Medieval Scottish History at Glasgow Univeristy and an MA in Early Medieval Archaeology at Durham University. She has recently completed her PhD, entitled Crossing Britian: The British 'High' Cross in Context and Development, AD 600-1100.
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[@janetkurnick1641]

fascinating lecture. Thank you so much!

[@HolgerGruber]

I very much appreciate all this new information! As a German, up to this day, unlucky Lindisfarne only had been a place who gave a name to the starting point of the viking era for me. BTW: in a planned excavation, there is no need to mention the members of the staff who discovered this or that important item, nor who took this or that photo. A link to the corpus of Anglo-Saxon stone sculptures would be nice. Easy to google. But much easier I you only have to click on a link.

[@davidniedjaco9869]

St. Cuthbert pray for us

[@aairsick]

I would like the info not being read --