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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
Historic English pipe chanter
In the Bagpipe Museum, Morpeth, Northumberland
2005
MORE PUBLICATIONS
3.2
Early medieval bird-bone flute from Thetford, Norfolk
Detail showing maker's layout mark
2004