National Antiquities Research Articles

Archéologie et tradition académique en Europe aux XVIIIeet XIXe siècles

« J'avais mes heures de service, que je passais dans ce qu'un très vieil écriteau appelait cabinet d'Archéologie... Au-dessus de l'écriteau on avait gribouillé conservateur des Antiquités. » (I. Dombrowski, Le conservateur des AntiquitésLe héros du roman de I. Dombrowski est un jeune archéologue qui, en 1937, est nommé conservateur au musée d'Alma-Ata. Son travail consiste à mettre un peu d'ordre dans une cathédrale transformée en musée et qui recèle des collections du xixe siècle. Bientôt la découverte d'un trésor par des paysans vient briser la monotonie des jours. A travers l'histoire de la découverte de ce trésor se déploie une intrigue qui emmène les personnages progressivement au cœur de la machine policière stalinienne. Derrière l'archéologue détective sont à l'œuvre d'autres enquêteurs méticuleux au service de la raison d'État.Accumulation, bric-à-brac, indices : le conservateur des Antiquités est là pour mettre de l'ordre dans des ensembles aléatoires, et son travail dans la réserve appelle l'enquête sur le terrain qui est la métaphore de la véritable enquête policière. Cette volonté d'ordre, de sériation, de classification est inséparable de l'archéologie moderne qui est devenue comptable de la moindre trace, du moindre tesson.

The recording of unexcavated finds: X‐ray photography and photogrammetry

Abstract Technological and scientific developments today enable the archaeologist to multiply his knowledge of the primary evidence ‐ archaeological finds and ancient monuments. Recording techniques have developed to such a degree that it is possible to photograph, reconstruct and publish even unexcavated artefacts. This can be done using advanced X‐ray photography and photogrammetry. The latter is already, a well‐established technique for recording field monuments but can now also be used to record very small artefacts. A combination of X‐ray photography and photogrammetry makes it possible to reconstruct artefacts three‐dimensionally on the drawing board without removing the object from its matrix. Experimental work using this method of recording has been undertaken by the Gotland Section of the Central Office of National Antiquities (R.A.G.U.). Financial as well as scientific advantages derive from the method. It enables the analysis of artefacts to be postponed until some future date when a more devel...

Debatten 1915–1976 om Uppsala Domkyrkas restaurering, II

Summary and conclusion The above is the second part of a report on the debate on the restoration of Uppsala cathedral (the first part was published in Konsthistorisk tidskrift 1976, pp. 115–144). The report has its origins in a course given at the University of Stockholm in 1974 under the auspices of the the institute of the History of Art. During the last fifty years, a large number of early Swedish churches has been restored. The main purpose of this work was often to remove 19th century additions, which aimed at the restoration of the building in a uniform style, and to provide instead a design supposedly more historically accurate or, according to the restorers at least, aesthetically more pleasing. Restoration of this type was usually carried out without protest or discussion, being regarded as the concern of a small group of experts centred in and around the appropriate state authority, the Swedish Central Office of National Antiquities (the central authority for the preservation of cultural monumen...

Some thoughts on boats as museum objects

International Journal of Nautical ArchaeologyVolume 2, Issue 2 p. 345-354 Some thoughts on boats as museum objects Arne Emil Christensen Jr., Arne Emil Christensen Jr. University Collection of National Antiquities, Oslo, NorwaySearch for more papers by this author Arne Emil Christensen Jr., Arne Emil Christensen Jr. University Collection of National Antiquities, Oslo, NorwaySearch for more papers by this author First published: September 1973 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1095-9270.1973.tb00521.xCitations: 1AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume2, Issue2September 1973Pages 345-354 RelatedInformation

Kulturarvens speglingar

Museums as mirrors of differing concepts of heritage The museum – is it more a reflection of the present than an entrance to the past? In this essay we visit four museums from four different eras to investigate how the ideals of the contemporary society were mirrored in the museum’s preservation and exhibition practices. The museums, all located in Stockholm, are: The Royal Museum founded in 1792 which focused on the classical heritage; the Nordiska Museet 1873 and Skansen 1891 with their interest in Nordic folk culture; the Museum of National Antiquities and the Office of Cultural Heritage Management in the days of their important reorganisation around 1940; and finally the Swedish Travelling Exhibitions established in 1965 with its distributive and democratic ideas. I have used the typology of Friedrich Nietzsche from Vom Nutzen und Nachteil der Historie für das Leben revised by the historian Svante Beckman in order to understand the differences. The museums are positioned in an analytic diagram (p. 72) according to the ideals which were fundamental in the construction of the respective institutions. In the centre Heritage, at the top Society perspective, at the bottom Individual perspective, to the left Cognitive emphasis, to the right Emotive emphasis. The conclusions are condensed in the diagram on p. 88.

Morup Church: A Case Study On StructuralBehaviour Of Historical Roof Trusses

In Sweden, roof trusses in churches all over the country form a large and interesting category of ancient wood constructions that is relatively unexplored. Today, lack of knowledge about these constructions threaten their existence, as they are often radically changed or even demolished when churches are being restored. Morup church in Halland, Sweden, has been examined as a representative example of a particular type of churche with a wide nave and a relatively flat roof. Morup church has been examined on site and the structural behaviour of the roof trusses has been investigated. Research on historical roof trusses in Swedish churches The great number of historical timber roof trusses preserved in Swedish churches form a rich material for studies in the development of carpentry from the 12th century and onwards. Unfortunately, today, roof constructions are rapidly being removed or altered through repair measures. Modern methods and materials are used, although constructions built with traditional techniques has proved to stand for hundreds of years. There is a lack of knowledge about the structural behaviour of old timber constructions and about the safety aspects on them. In addition, methods are needed to evaluate the structures accordingly. There is also a need for an inventory of restoration problems affecting roof constructions. The author is co-operating with the Swedish Central Board of National Antiquities in a research project concerning these questions. The research is carried out in two steps, where the first is concluded and the second is in progress. In the first step, a survey was made to identify what knowledge there is concerning the shape of old roof trusses, their structural behaviour and restorations problems associated with them. [1] The study comprised literature studies, interviews with engineers and architects working with restoration and a case study. It was found that the shape and structural behaviour of the preserved mediaeval roof trusses are comparatively well known. There are basically two different types; early medieval trusses with tie beams and later ones without tie beams. The roof trusses are connected to different spatial concepts. Early Transactions on the Built Environment vol 26, © 1997 WIT Press, www.witpress.com, ISSN 1743-3509

Medieval Wooden Sculpture in Sweden. Vol. II. Romanesque and Gothic Sculpture. By Aron Andersson: 11 × 7½. Pp. 161 + 85 figs. Stockholm: Museum of National Antiquities and the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History, and Antiquities, 1966. Kr.

Medieval Wooden Sculpture in Sweden. Vol. II. Romanesque and Gothic Sculpture. By Aron Andersson: 11 × 7½. Pp. 161 + 85 figs. Stockholm: Museum of National Antiquities and the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History, and Antiquities, 1966. Kr. - Volume 47 Issue 1

Medieval Wooden Sculpture in Sweden. Vol. V. The Museum collection. 11 × 7½. 343 Plates. Stockholm: Museum of National Antiquities and the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, 1964. Sw.kr. 150.

Medieval Wooden Sculpture in Sweden. Vol. V. The Museum collection. 11 × 7½. 343 Plates. Stockholm: Museum of National Antiquities and the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, 1964. Sw.kr. 150. - Volume 46 Issue 1

Medieval Wooden Sculpture in Sweden. Vol.1. Attitudes to the Heritage. By Bengt Thordeman. 11 × 7½. Pp. 104 + 88 pls. Stockholm: Museum of National Antiquities, and The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, 1964. Sw. kr. 35.

Medieval Wooden Sculpture in Sweden. Vol.1. Attitudes to the Heritage. By Bengt Thordeman. 11 × 7½. Pp. 104 + 88 pls. Stockholm: Museum of National Antiquities, and The Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities, 1964. Sw. kr. 35.

Excavations and Prehistoric Discoveries in France (1940–1944)

During these four hard years of German occupation and in spite of hindrances of all kinds—preliminary permits to be obtained, censorship and severe limitations imposed on the liberty of the scientific press—research and the publication of works on our national antiquities have not meanwhile been interrupted. Excavations have been carried on with an activity, which the struggles for liberation during the summer of 1944, have not invariably retarded. The reviews and publications of the learned societies of the departments, although perceptibly reduced in bulk, continued to record discoveries and to print erudite articles. A new documentary review, Gallia: Excavations and Archaeological Monuments of Metropolitan France, was even published for the first time in 1943. Edited under the aegis of the National Centre for Scientific Research, its object is to publish, with the least delay possible, the reports of excavators upon their discoveries. Such results could not have been attained without the co-operation of all archaeologists, editors and printers, in fulfilling a single and imperative duty, namely, to assure the continuity of French archaeology in spite of the uncertainties and distress of the period. This amounted moreover, at the same time to a form of service and was one of the aspects of resistance to the invader. All were thus only following the example, set at the time of the first world war by Camille Jullian, the great historian of Gaul, who then placed his science and his eloquence at the service of his country. The book, dedicated to him by Albert Grenier, is no mere biography; it traces another page of the history and archaeology of contemporary France.

Archaeology and the State

The interest of the State in the ancient monuments and civilizations of Britain is recent in origin and limited in extent. It is the purpose of this paper to trace in outline the growth of State interest, the limits of State control at the present time, and the main lacunae which appear to exist in the mechanism for the preservation of our national antiquities. Before embarking on this topic it might be well to point out the two chief reasons why, before 1882, the State undertook little or no responsibility within a sphere now generally recognized as the proper concern of any civilized state. In the first place the study of British Archaeology has only within the last fifty years reached a degree of accuracy and discipline worthy of the expenditure of public funds; it is of the utmost significance in this connexion that the first scientific British archaeologist, General Pitt-Rivers, was appointed as first Inspector of Ancient Monuments under the Act of 1882.

On the Preservation of National Antiquities and Monuments in Denmark

On the Preservation of National Antiquities and Monuments in Denmark

The Museum of National Antiquities of France

ALL the French national museums are located in Paris with the exception of the Museum of National Antiquities, which is at some distance from Paris, in a small town of the banlieue. Although the Château de Saint Germain, which has been allotted to that interesting and really national collection, is a very picturesque monument, and the forest round a favourite pleasure-ground for Parisian families, the site allotted to the museum about ten years ago was not selected with the view of giving an additional attraction to the place. But the very idea of collecting relics of prehistoric ages in order to demonstrate that our ancestors lived in the age of the so-called diluvian animals was opposed by a formidable number of influential people.

VIII.—Some Additions to the Biographies of Sir John Cheke and Sir Thomas Smith: in a Letter addressed to Charles Henry Cooper, Esq., F.S.A., one of the Authors of the Athenæ Cantabrigienses

Every cultivator of our national biography and literary antiquities must rejoice at the appearance of the first volume of the Athense Cantabrigienses. That a work which was so obviously suggested nearly two centuries ago by the Athense of the sister University, which has been contemplated by so many successive collectors, and for which such large, though imperfect, accumulations have been formed, should, in spite of ever-increasing difficulties, at length greet our view in substantial paper and print, is a victory over old Time of which any generation may fairly be proud; and I therefore cannot be thought to magnify its accomplishment too highly if, on this first public allusion to the work at the Society of Antiquaries, I hail its authors as conquerors who have overtaken the spoiler, and recovered from his grasp some of his most estimable treasures.

On the Additions to the Collection of National Antiquities in the British Museum

(1854). On the Additions to the Collection of National Antiquities in the British Museum. Archaeological Journal: Vol. 11, No. 1, pp. 23-32.

On the Additions to the Collection of National Antiquities in the British Museum

On the Additions to the Collection of National Antiquities in the British Museum

II. An Account of some Ancient Remains existing in the District adjacent to the confluence of the Wye and the Severn, in the Counties of Gloucester and Monmouth; namely, the probable line of the British Akeman Street, the southern termination of Offa's Dyke, the Earthworks of Buttindune, the leaden Fonts of Llancaut and Tidenham, and an identification of the Estrighoiel

The drawing which accompanies this Memoir represents two undescribed leaden fonts existing in the several parish churches of Llancaut, and Tidenham, situated within the manor of Tidenham in Gloucestershire, apparently of the Saxon period, and certainly casts from the same mould. The Memoir itself and the accompanying map relate also to other ancient remains existing within the same district of Strigul, which are of a local nature, but tending to connect some minor links of our national antiquities.