ade for King Alfred the Great? The Alfred Jewel and Recent Discoveries"
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ade for King Alfred the Great? The Alfred Jewel and Recent Discoveries"


The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
would like to announce an upcoming lecture:

David Hinton (University of Southamptom)

"Made for King Alfred the Great? The Alfred Jewel and Recent Discoveries"

Monday, April 6, 5:00 p.m.
Classroom 2 in the Museum This lecture is free and open to the
public. Prof. Hinton is Professor of Medieval Archaeology at the
University of Southampton, a former editor of the UK journal,
Medieval Archaeology, and has published on a monograph on the Alfred
Jewel, as well as best-selling books on Alfred's Kingdom (1979), and
Pots and Pins (2005). He has excavated widely in southern England
including at Wareham (Dorset) with Richard Hodges, Williams Director
of the Penn Museum.

For further information, please contact: Margaret R. Spencer
Executive Assistant to the Williams Director
University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
3260 South Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6324
215-898-4050
215-573-9369 (fax)
www.museum.upenn.edu




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