Publications by Graeme Lawson: 2001-2005
3.1
2001. ‘Musical relics [from Fast Castle,
Berwickshire].’
114-116 in K. Mitchell, K.R. Murdoch
& J.R. Ward,
Fast Castle: Excavations 1971-86.
Edinburgh: Edinburgh Archaeological Field Society
Monograph, 2001.
Keywords: JEWS HARPS -
INSTRUMENT STRINGS - EXCAVATED FINDS - CASTLES
- MEDIEVAL - SOUTH-EAST SCOTLAND - EUROPE -
FINDS REPORT.
Abstract: 4.3a


2001. 'The lyre remains from Grave 32'.
215-223 in W. Filmer-Sankey & T. Pestell, Snape
Anglo-Saxon Cemetery: excavations and surveys
1884-1992.
East Anglian Archaeology No. 95. (Grave 32
plans and catalogue entry are 77-8 and Fig. 56.) Ipswich:
Suffolk County Council Archaeology Service
(Environment & Transport). ISBN 0-86055-264-0.

Keywords: STRINGED INSTRUMENTS - LYRES -
EXCAVATED FINDS - INHUMATION CEMETERIES -
HEROIC VERSE - ARTISTIC PATRONAGE - EARLY
MEDIEVAL - EASTERN ENGLAND - EUROPE - FINDS
REPORT.
Abstract: 4.3b


2002 (with F. d'Errico). ‘Microscopic,
experimental and theoretical
re-assessment of Upper Palaeolithic
bird-bone pipes from Isturitz, France:
ergonomics of design, systems of notation
and the origins of musical traditions’.

119-142 in E. Hickmann, A.D. Kilmer & R. Eichmann
(Hrsg.),
Studien zur Musikarchäologie III. Archäologie
früher Klangerzeugung und Tonordnung.

Orient-Archäologie Band 10. Rahden, Westf.: Verlag
Marie Leidorf. ISBN 3-89646-640-2.
Keywords:
INSTRUMENTS - BONE PIPES - EXCAVATED FINDS -
ANATOMICALLY MODERN HUMANS - UPPER
PALAEOLITHIC - GRAVETTIAN - AURIGNACIAN - MUSIC
ORIGINS - TRADITION - FRANCE - EUROPE


2004. ‘Music, Intentionality and Tradition:
identifying purpose, and continuity of
purpose, in the music-archaeological
record.’
61-97 in E. Hickmann & R. Eichmann
(Hrsg.)
Studien zur Musikarchäologie IV:
Musik-archäologisches Quellengruppen:
Bodenurkunden, mündliche Überlieferung,
Aufzeichnung.
Orient-Archäologie series. Rahden,
Westf.: Verlag Marie Leidorf. ISSN 1434-162X. ISBN
3-89646-645-3.
Keywords: INSTRUMENTS - LYRES -
BONE PIPES - PANPIPES - ALL PERIODS - EXCAVATED
FINDS - ARCHAEOLOGICAL CONTEXT - DISTRIBUTIONS
- INTENTIONALITY & PURPOSE - TRADITION - TONALITY
- MUSIC ORIGINS - EUROPE
2005. Review of Gjermund Kolltveit: Jew’s
Harps in European Archaeology
.*
[Dissertation for the degree of Doctor Artium,
Faculty of Arts, University of Oslo, 2004. Acta
Humaniora No. 212; Oslo: Unipub Avhandlinger
AS. ISSN 0806-3222.]
Svensk Tidskrift för
Musikforskning
87, 130-132. Stockholm: Svenska
Samfundet för Musikforskning. ISSN 0081-9816.
Keywords: INSTRUMENTS - JEW’S HARPS -
DISTRIBUTIONS - CHRONOLOGY - MEDIEVAL - MUSIC
ORIGINS - TRADITION - MUSIC TECHNOLOGY - EUROPE


2005. ‘Ancient European lyres: excavated
finds and experimental performance
today’.
93-120 in S. Hagel & C. Harrauer (Hrsg.)
Ancient Greek Music in Performance (Proceedings of
the symposium
Performing Ancient Greek Music Today,
held by the Austrian Academy of Sciences Commission
for Ancient Literature, Vienna 29 September - 1 October
2003.) Wien: Der Österreichischen Akademie der
Wissenschaften. ISBN 3-7001-3475-4.
Keywords:
STRINGED INSTRUMENTS - LYRES - CLASSICAL -
MEDIEVAL - EXCAVATED FINDS - DOCUMENTS -
EXPERIMENTAL ARCHAEOLOGY - PERFORMANCE -
BRITAIN - GERMANY - EUROPE.
Abstract: 4.3a


2005. ‘Tuning and Tradition: the earliest
Northumbrian bagpipes and their
relationship to finds from archaeological
excavation.’
Archaeologia Aeliana, 5th Series, 34,
101-114. Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon
Tyne.
Keywords: WIND INSTRUMENTS - BAGPIPES -
REED-PIPES - MEDIEVAL & LATER - EXCAVATED FINDS -
EXTANT HISTORIC INSTRUMENTS - TRADITION - TUNING
PRACTICES - BRITAIN - EUROPE.
Abstract: 4.3a


2005. ‘XIV. Wooden objects: A musical
pipe.’
156-7 and Fig. 90 in A. Shelley, Dragon Hall,
King Street, Norwich: excavation and survey of a late
medieval merchant’s trading complex
. East Anglian
Archaeology No. 112. Norwich: Norfolk and Norwich
Heritage Trust. ISBN 0 951 7878 10.
Keywords: WIND
INSTRUMENTS - WOOD - EXCAVATED FINDS -
POST-MEDIEVAL - CHILDREN’S TOYS - NORFOLK -
EASTERN ENGLAND - EUROPE - FINDS REPORT.
Abstract: 4.3a


* Republished 2006 under the same title, by
Archaeopress, Oxford:
British Archaeological Reports
International Series 1500. ISBN 1-84171-931-5


cambridge music-archaeological research
<http://www.orfeo.co.uk>
Historic English pipe chanter in
the Bagpipe Museum, Morpeth,
Northumberland
2005
Early medieval bird-bone flute from
Thetford, Norfolk. Proximal detail
showing maker's layout mark
2004
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