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The King’s Stone: Peace, Power and the Highway in Early Medieval Winchester
Alexander Langlands 
Early Medieval Winchester, Pages: 41 - 58
Swansea University Author:
Alexander Langlands
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DOI (Published version): 10.2307/j.ctv1wvndd9.9
Abstract
Bringing together scattered historical references to an ancient cross known as the ‘King’s stone’ this chapter establishes the location of a lost landmark to the north of Winchester.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...
| Published in: | Early Medieval Winchester |
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| ISBN: | 978-1-78925-626-0 |
| Published: |
Oxford
Oxbow Books
2021
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa67768 |
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| Abstract: |
Bringing together scattered historical references to an ancient cross known as the ‘King’s stone’ this chapter establishes the location of a lost landmark to the north of Winchester.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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| Keywords: |
early medieval, archaeology, routeways, movement |
| College: |
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences |
| Start Page: |
41 |
| End Page: |
58 |