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Anglo-Saxon Amulets and Curing Stones
''Anglo-Saxon Amulets and Curing Stones'' is an archaeological study of amulets, talismans and curing stones in the burial record of Anglo-Saxon England. Written by the Australian archaeologist Audrey Meaney, it was published by the company British Archaeological Reports as the 96th monograph in their BAR British Series. Prior to writing the work, Meaney had published several books dealing with Anglo-Saxon burials.
In the book, Meaney opines that scholars can understand more about Anglo-Saxon beliefs regarding magic by looking at the archaeological evidence for amulets and related magic items found buried in graves. Looking at the literary evidence for magical practices, she goes on to look at a wide variety of items found in Anglo-Saxon inhumation burials which might have had amuletic properties. She categorises such artefacts into a series of overarching categories, including vegetable amulets, mineral amulets, animal amulets, manufactured amulets and found amulets, to each of which she devotes a chapter. Concluding her study, Meaney argues that amulets were primarily worn by women and children in Anglo-Saxon England, and that there were certain females, whom she termed "cunning women", who worked in a specific magical capacity for their local communities.
The book received a mixed review from the academic Hilda Ellis Davidson in the ''Folklore'' journal. Meaney herself produced a rebuttal to Ellis Davidson in the following issue. Meaney's ideas regarding Anglo-Saxon cunning women would subsequently be adopted by fellow archaeologist Tania Dickinson.
==Background==
Prior to the publication of ''Anglo-Saxon Amulets and Curing Stones'', Meaney had written a number of studies on the archaeological burial record from Anglo-Saxon England. 1964 saw the publication of the ''Gazetteer of Early Anglo-Saxon Burial Sites'', brought out by Allen and Unwin. In 1970, Meaney's book, ''Two Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries at Winnall, Winchester, Hampshire'' was published by the Society for Medieval Archaeology as the fourth title in their monograph series.
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