Publications
Dark Age Britain: Studies presented to E. T. Leedes with a bibliography of his works, edited by D. B. Harden, published 1956 (Methuen & Co. Ltd.)
Review by T. S. in Sussex Notes and Queries, November 1956:This well-produced quarto volume, compiled from essays by 14 experts, was written as a token of affection and esteem, as a memorial to E. T. Leeds, who has rightly been called the "doyen of British Dark Age Archaeologists".
It has been divided into three portions: firstly, Roman and Celtic Survival; secondly, the Pagan and the Saxons; and lastly, the Christian Saxon and the Viking Age. Several of the chapters are of considerable interest, especially the one by Francoise Henry on "Irish enamels of the Dark Ages" and their relation to the Cloisonné techniques, and also D. B. Harden, "Essay on Glass Vessels in Britain and Ireland", and in which several specimens discovered in Sussex are illustrated, including the very fine example, now in Barbican House, from the Alfriston cemetery, and a quite remarkable one from Highdown, now in the Worthing Museum. There are several references to Sussex, and in his essay on the Anglo-Saxon settlement in Eastern England T.C. Lethbridge states, "Botanists nowadays express doubt on the former existence of impassable forests on the clay uplands".
Throughout the volume line plates and figures are of fine clear quality, and a great help in elucidating the text. A thoroughly sound good book.
It has been divided into three portions: firstly, Roman and Celtic Survival; secondly, the Pagan and the Saxons; and lastly, the Christian Saxon and the Viking Age. Several of the chapters are of considerable interest, especially the one by Francoise Henry on "Irish enamels of the Dark Ages" and their relation to the Cloisonné techniques, and also D. B. Harden, "Essay on Glass Vessels in Britain and Ireland", and in which several specimens discovered in Sussex are illustrated, including the very fine example, now in Barbican House, from the Alfriston cemetery, and a quite remarkable one from Highdown, now in the Worthing Museum. There are several references to Sussex, and in his essay on the Anglo-Saxon settlement in Eastern England T.C. Lethbridge states, "Botanists nowadays express doubt on the former existence of impassable forests on the clay uplands".
Throughout the volume line plates and figures are of fine clear quality, and a great help in elucidating the text. A thoroughly sound good book.
The Highdown Hill Glass Goblet with Greek Inscription, by D. B. Harden, published 1959 in Sussex Archæological Collections (vol. 97, article, pp.3-20) accessible at: W.S.R.O. [Lib 2182] & The Keep [LIB/500332] & S.A.S. library