Sonja Marzinzik
Curator, Insular Early Medieval
Collections
The Anglo-Saxon, Medieval Celtic
and Viking Collections of the British Isles
Department: Prehistory and
Europe
Telephone: +44 (0)20 7323 8333
Email: smarzinzik @ thebritishmuseum.ac.uk
Sonja Marzinzik is responsible for the early
medieval collections of the British Isles. These comprise
Anglo-Saxon, Medieval Celtic and Viking material of the fourth
to eleventh centuries.
Her special expertise lies in the early
Anglo-Saxon period and she has particular responsibility for the
finds from Sutton Hoo and the collaboration with the National Trust
Visitor Centre at the site
http://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/main/w-vh/w-visits-w-findaplace/w-suttonhoo.htm
Her research interests lie in Anglo-Saxon
metalwork, especially in silver wire inlay on iron objects, its
relationship with continental inlay and with garnet cloisonné,
which occurs in similar patterns. In connection with the recent
discovery of a burial site at Ringlemere, Kent, she is carrying out
research on the earliest Anglo-Saxons and the Germanic migration to
England.
After studying the early middle ages of both
the Continent and England at the universities of Munich, London and
Oxford, she joined the Victoria and Albert Museum. Among other
things, she was involved in the creation of a new gallery of
European Silver from 1400-1800 and in the redisplay of the Medieval
& Renaissance collections, while at the same time working as an
archaeological freelancer.
Current British Museum projects
Acquisitions monitor 2007-2009
Previous British Museum projects
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External fellowships/ honorary positions/ membership of professional bodies
UK delegate to the International Saxon
Symposium (www.sachsensymposion.org);
until 2011 member of its Coordinating Committee
Society for Medieval Archaeology (www.socmedarch.org)
Finds Research Group 700-1700 (www.frg700-1700.org.uk)
Publications
S. Marzinzik, The Sutton Hoo Helmet: Object in Focus
(London 2007)
S. Marzinzik, 'From 'Miteinander' to
'Nebeneinander?' Thoughts on Anglo-Saxon and Continental belt
fashions' in Acts of the 56th Sachsensmposion
Magdeburg 2005 (forthcoming)
S. Marzinzik, 'The wire-inlaid buckle and belt fitting' in
S. Teague, Manor Farm, Monk Sherborne, Hampshire:
Archaeological investigations in 1996, proceedings of
the Hampshire Field Club and Archaeological Society, 60
(2005), pp. 121-4
S. Marzinzik, Early Anglo-Saxon Belt Buckles (late 5th to
early 8th centuries A.D.): Their classification and context.
BAR British Series 357 (Oxford, 2003)
S. Marzinzik, 'Grave goods in conversion period and later
burials - A case of early medieval religious double standards?' in
K. Pollmann (ed.), Double Standards in the Ancient and
Mediaeval World. Göttinger Forum für Altertumswissenschaften,
Beihefte 1 (Göttingen 2000) pp. 149-166