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The King’s Stone: Peace, Power and the Highway in Early Medieval Winchester

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Early Medieval Winchester, Pages: 41 - 58

Swansea University Author: Alexander Langlands Orcid Logo

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DOI (Published version): 10.2307/j.ctv1wvndd9.9

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Bringing together scattered historical references to an ancient cross known as the ‘King’s stone’ this chapter establishes the location of a lost landmark to the north of Winchester. Whilst the form and style of the monument eludes us, comparing its situational context to other such examples can do...

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Published in: Early Medieval Winchester
ISBN: 978-1-78925-626-0
Published: Oxford Oxbow Books 2021
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description Bringing together scattered historical references to an ancient cross known as the ‘King’s stone’ this chapter establishes the location of a lost landmark to the north of Winchester. Whilst the form and style of the monument eludes us, comparing its situational context to other such examples can do much to further our understanding of how royal power was being articulated in the early medieval landscape of Wessex and western Mercia. Considered alongside the evidence for major routeways and emerging citadels, an archaeology of movement can be reconstructed within which the notion of ‘peace’, an imagined Roman past, the rise of...
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