Oxbow Books, 2024. — 376 p. Provides a scientifically verified date for the Cerne Giant, revealing its origins in the Anglo-Saxon period and prompting new discussions on its historical and archaeological significance. The date of the Cerne Giant has long been a matter for debate, as exemplified by a public and televised debate of March 1996, published as The Cerne Giant: An...
Oxbow Books, 2024. — 376 p. Provides a scientifically verified date for the Cerne Giant, revealing its origins in the Anglo-Saxon period and prompting new discussions on its historical and archaeological significance. The date of the Cerne Giant has long been a matter for debate, as exemplified by a public and televised debate of March 1996, published as The Cerne Giant: An...
Norfolk Field Archaeology Division, 1995. — 244 p. — (East Anglian Archaeology 72). During the late 1980s, several sizeable undeveloped areas south of the river were threatened. Together, they provided an opportunity to recover further information about the origins and growth of Thetford. This is the fourth volume in the series to cover excavations in Thetford (see EAA 22 and...
Routledge, 1997. – 278 p. Second edition.
An Archaeology of the Early Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms is a volume which offers an unparalleled view of the archaeological remains of the period. Using the development of the kingdoms as a framework, this study closely examines the wealth of material evidence and analyzes its significance to our understanding of the society that created it....
Council for British Archaeology, 1993. — 452 p. — (CBA Research Reports 92). This is the third in the series of volumes reporting on work on the Cistercian abbey of Bordesley. This report describes excavations and fieldwork undertaken between 1980 and 1991 in the eastern part of the precinct of Bordesley Abbey. The aim of the programme was to excavate the monastic watermills...
The Norfolk Archaeological Unit, 1987. — 364 p. Excavation of this large waterfront site showed that it had been continuously occupied for nearly 1000 years, for commercial, industrial, and domestic purposes. The remains of riverside structures, buildings and tenement boundaries dating to the 11th and 12th centuries, characterised the waterfront at the height of its commercial...
Fingal County Council, 2009. — 110 p. Amid the hustle and bustle of modern life we rarely stop to think and wonder about the past and the people who have gone before us. Even if we’re interested in our own family history we can only get information for the last few hundred years at best. Yet the Fingal we see every day, the landscape of city, town, village, coast and...
Archaeopress, 2024. — 565 p. St Albans Abbey is one of the greatest of medieval England. The origins of the medieval abbey lie much further in the past, in the time of Roman Verulamium, and the early history of the abbey is that of the martyrdom of Alban, whose burial is associated with the area of the abbey itself. The creation of memorial churches over the graves of saints...
Archaeopress, 2022. — 440 p. — (Winchester Studies 10). This wide-ranging study uses historical and archaeological evidence to consider humanity's interactions with the environment, fashioning agricultural, gardening and horticultural regimes over a millennium and a half. The discussions of archaeological finds of seeds from discarded rubbish including animal fodder and bedding...
Archaeopress, 2022. — 148 p. The Medieval Floortiles of Herefordshire presents a survey, in the form of a gazetteer, of the extant decorated floortiles of Herefordshire, with some tiles that are no longer available but which are known from records also included. For each site, each individual floortile design is illustrated and parallels from other sites are outlined. It is to...
BAR Publishing, 2022. — 109 p. — (BAR British Series 675). The Carthusians were a small monastic order founded in France in the late 11th century. Their dedication to the hermit lifestyle required a unique living situation that included individual housing for each monk, and a group of lay brothers who carried out the day-to-day tasks and interacted with the local community.This...
BAR Publishing, 1981. — 248 p. — (BAR British Series 92). Teresa Briscoe - Anglo-Saxon Pot Stamps Bengt Odenstedt - The Gilton Runic Inscription Sofia Chadwick Hawkes - Recent Finds of Inlaid Iron Buckles from Seventh Century and Belt-Plates Kent David Brown - The Dating of the Sutton Hoo Coins Michael Farley - A Jewelled Brooch from Ivinghoe Paul Courtney - The Early Saxon...
Council for British Archaeology, 2002. — 214 p. — (CBA Research Reports, 133. Southampton Archaeology Monographs, 8). Excavations carried out in Southampton between 1970 and 1980 produced almost 36,000, mostly well-stratified, sherds of post-Conquest pottery. This well-presented catalogue publishes and illustrates sherds recovered from nine excavations, preceded by a full...
London, The British Museum Press, 1978 - 122 p. В книге подробно описываются оружие, доспехи, регалии эпохи англосаксонского короля Редвальда на основании раскопок в кургане Саттон-Ху (Sutton Hoo), графство Саффолк, Великобритания
The British Museum, 1968. — 146 p. The "Provisional Guide" to the Sutton Hoo ship-burial, published by the Trustees of the British Museum in 1947, has printed ten impressions and sold over 20,000 copies. The fifth impression (1956) incorporated corrections and additions. However, twenty years have elapsed since the "Guide's" first appearance, and a great deal has happened, both...
BAR Publishing, 2021. — 157 p. — (BAR British Series 669). Minster House, removed in 1883, adjoined the south-west corner of Bristol Cathedral. The cathedral was created in 1542 from the former St Augustine’s Abbey, which had been the head house in England of the Victorine branch of the Augustinian canons. Minster House was used as a prebendal house from 1542 and had formerly...
Simon & Schuster, 2022. — 350 p. Funerary rituals show us what people thought about mortality; how they felt about loss; what they believed came next. From Roman cremations and graveside feasts, to deviant burials with heads rearranged, from richly furnished Anglo Saxon graves to the first Christian burial grounds in Wales, Buried provides an alternative history of the first...
Simon & Schuster, 2022. — 350 p. Funerary rituals show us what people thought about mortality; how they felt about loss; what they believed came next. From Roman cremations and graveside feasts, to deviant burials with heads rearranged, from richly furnished Anglo Saxon graves to the first Christian burial grounds in Wales, Buried provides an alternative history of the first...
The Norfolk Archaeological Unit, 1989. — 118 p. — (East Anglian Archaeology 46). It is regrettable that this report on the investigation of Thuxton deserted village site should have taken twenty-five years to publish since fieldwork ceased in 1964. Although some parts of the report (particularly the pottery section) would be prepared rather differently today, this volume...
Boydell Press, 1992. — 406 p. The age of Sutton Hoo runs from the fifth to the eighth century AD - a dark and difficult age, where hard evidence is rare, but glittering and richly varied. Myths, king-lists, place-names, sagas, palaces, belt-buckles, middens and graves are all grist to the archaeologist's mill. This book celebrates the anniversary of the discovery of that most...
Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 2019. — 556 p. Portmahomack on the Tarbat peninsula overlooking the Dornoch Firth is a fishing village with a 1,500-year-old history. In the sixth and seventh century it was a high-ranking centre with monumental cist burials and links to the equestrian class in England. In the eighth century it was a monastery, creating manuscripts and making...
Routledge, 2019. — 766 p. Formative Britain presents an account of the peoples occupying the island of Britain between 400 and 1100 AD, whose ideas continue to set the political agenda today. Forty years of new archaeological research has laid bare a hive of diverse and disputatious communities of Picts, Scots, Welsh, Cumbrian and Cornish Britons, Northumbrians, Angles and...
Routledge, 2019. — 766 p. Formative Britain presents an account of the peoples occupying the island of Britain between 400 and 1100 AD, whose ideas continue to set the political agenda today. Forty years of new archaeological research has laid bare a hive of diverse and disputatious communities of Picts, Scots, Welsh, Cumbrian and Cornish Britons, Northumbrians, Angles and...
Edinburgh University Press, 2008. — 265 p. During the 19th and 20th centuries a trail of chance finds on the outskirts of Portmahomack led to the first exposure in 1996 of a Pictish settlement in northern Scotland. The area became the subject of one of the largest research excavations ever to have taken place on the Scottish mainland. This book describes the discovery and...
The British Museum Press, 2005. — 578 p. — (Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London 69). This book offers complete description of archaeological investigations begun in 1983 to understand the context of the seventh-century burial ship discovered (in 1939) at Sutton Hoo on the River Deben in Suffolk (its treasure is in the British Museum)....
University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998. — xii, 195 p. — ISBN: 0-8122-3455-3. The Sutton Hoo ship-burial is one of the most significant archaeological finds ever made in Europe and arguably in the world. It lies in a site that contains all the elements of archaeological mystery and romance: seventeen burial mounds, buried treasure, great works of art, sacrificed horses, and...
Ebury Press, 2015. — 295 p. A fascinating guide to decoding the secret language of the churches of England through the medieval carved markings and personal etchings found on our church walls from archaeologist Matthew Champion. 'Rare, lovely glimmers of everyday life in the Middle Ages.' -- The Sunday Times Our churches are full of hidden messages from years gone by and for...
Ebury Press, 2015. — 272 p. A fascinating guide to decoding the secret language of the churches of England through the medieval carved markings and personal etchings found on our church walls from archaeologist Matthew Champion. 'Rare, lovely glimmers of everyday life in the Middle Ages.' -- The Sunday Times Our churches are full of hidden messages from years gone by and for...
Oxbow Books, 2010. — 573 p. The open area excavation of nearly a half of the small deserted medieval hamlet of West Cotton, Raunds, Northamptonshire has revealed the dynamic processes of constant development in a way that has rarely been achieved on other comparable sites in England. Its origins have been seen to lie in the mid tenth-century plantation of a planned settlement...
Oxbow Books, 2021. — 257 p. This highly-illustrated book reveals a brand-new story of the royal castle of Lincoln – how it was imposed on the late Anglo-Saxon town and how it developed over the next 900 years in the hands of the king or his aristocratic associates. Today, we have been left a surviving monument of three great towers, each with its own biography. Led by FAS...
Oxbow Books, 2021. — 256 p. This highly-illustrated book reveals a brand-new story of the royal castle of Lincoln – how it was imposed on the late Anglo-Saxon town and how it developed over the next 900 years in the hands of the king or his aristocratic associates. Today, we have been left a surviving monument of three great towers, each with its own biography. Led by FAS...
Oxbow Books, 2010. — 326 p. To the casual visitor of today, Sandwich appears as simply a small inland market town on the bank of a modest river. But locals and historians have long known that in the Middle Ages it was a strategic and commercial seaport of great significance, trading with northern Europe and the Mediterranean and growing prosperous on this business. The medieval...
Oxbow Books, 2010. — 346 p. To the casual visitor of today, Sandwich appears as simply a small inland market town on the bank of a modest river. But locals and historians have long known that in the Middle Ages it was a strategic and commercial seaport of great significance, trading with northern Europe and the Mediterranean and growing prosperous on this business. The medieval...
Oxbow Books, 2010. — 346 p. To the casual visitor of today, Sandwich appears as simply a small inland market town on the bank of a modest river. But locals and historians have long known that in the Middle Ages it was a strategic and commercial seaport of great significance, trading with northern Europe and the Mediterranean and growing prosperous on this business. The medieval...
Oxbow Books, 2010. — 346 p. To the casual visitor of today, Sandwich appears as simply a small inland market town on the bank of a modest river. But locals and historians have long known that in the Middle Ages it was a strategic and commercial seaport of great significance, trading with northern Europe and the Mediterranean and growing prosperous on this business. The medieval...
Windgather Press, 2019. — 264 p. This is the first book in a generation on medieval agriculture in Wales, presenting evidence which is of considerable relevance to those studying the development of the early medieval landscapes of England and Ireland. This collection of essays confronts the paradox that, though agriculture lay at the heart of medieval society, understanding of...
Windgather Press, 2019. — 264 p. This is the first book in a generation on medieval agriculture in Wales, presenting evidence which is of considerable relevance to those studying the development of the early medieval landscapes of England and Ireland. This collection of essays confronts the paradox that, though agriculture lay at the heart of medieval society, understanding of...
Windgather Press, 2019. — 264 p. This is the first book in a generation on medieval agriculture in Wales, presenting evidence which is of considerable relevance to those studying the development of the early medieval landscapes of England and Ireland. This collection of essays confronts the paradox that, though agriculture lay at the heart of medieval society, understanding of...
BAR Publishing, 2017. — 97 p. — (BAR British Series 633). Towards the end of the 20th century, sand and gravel extraction in the Middle Trent moved from the higher terrace gravels down onto the wide floodplain zone. The lower Hemington terrace gravels presented waterlogged conditions with excellent preservation of riverine structures, organic artefacts and ecofacts. One of the...
London: HMSO for the Museum of London, 1987 – x + 169 pages, 132 illustrations – ISBN: 0-11-290440-8 Knives were vital to medieval man for a whole range of uses, from the domestic to the wider social context: Anglo-Saxon pre-Christian burials bear silent witness to this dependence in the many cases where knives are found among the grave-goods. Forged and hafted with great...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 244 p. The growth and development of towns and urbanism in the pre-modern world has been of interest to archaeologists since the nineteenth century. Much of the early archaeological research on urban origins focused on regions such as Mesopotamia, Egypt, and Mesoamerica. Intensive archaeological research that has been conducted since the 1960s,...
Suffolk County Planning Department, 1989. — 128 p. — (East Anglian Archaeology 47). The Adventus Saxonum, the arrival of the Anglo-Saxons in Britain, is an event which has profound implications for later English history. Documentary sources can provide a bare outline of the political and historical events which surrounded the Adventus, however the documents are silent on many...
English Heritage, 2005. — 440 p. Founded by Benedict Biscop in the late 7th century, the twin monastery of Wearmouth and Jarrow achieved an international reputation through the writings of Bede. Destroyed in the mid-9th century the house was refounded in the 11th and survives to this day as a seat of religious scholarship. This report describes the excavations undertaken at the...
English Heritage, 2005. — 676 p. Founded by Benedict Biscop in the late 7th century, the twin monastery of Wearmouth and Jarrow achieved an international reputation through the writings of Bede. Destroyed in the mid-9th century the house was refounded in the 11th and survives to this day as a seat of religious scholarship. This report describes the excavations undertaken at the...
Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1999. — 304 p. — (Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Monograph Series 15). This study of a royal Norwegian farm on the Shetland island of Papa Stour was inspired by a document of 1299 recording the meeting between a Norwegian royal official and a woman who had accused him of treachery to his royal master.
Oxford University School of Archaeology, 2008. — 291 p. Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History is an annual series concerned with the archaeology and history of England and its neighbours during the Anglo-Saxon period. ASSAH offers researchers an opportunity to publish new work in an interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary forum which allows for a diversity of...
Liverpool University Press, 2016. — 346 p. The turbulent reign of Stephen, King of England (1135-54), has been styled since the late 19th century as "the Anarchy", although the extent of political breakdown during the period has since been vigorously debated. Rebellion and bitter civil war characterised Stephen's protracted struggle with rival claimant Empress Matilda and her...
London: HMSO for the Museum of London, 1987 – 146 pages, 160 illustrations – ISBN: 0-11-290443-2 Until recently, very little was known about medieval shoes. Glimpses in manuscript illustrations and on funerary monuments, with the occasional reference by a contemporary writer, was all that the costume historian had as evidence, not least because leather tends to perish after...
Лондон. Издание Лондонского музея. 1992. 254 с. Коллективная монография. Язык издания - английский.
Текстиль и одежда. 1150-
1450. Средневековые находки из раскопок в Лондоне. В книге описаны средневековые техники изготовления текстильных материалов, типы шерстяных, льняных, шелковых и прочих тканей, техники швов и пошива по материалам археологических раскопок в Лондоне.
Routledge, 2003. — 406 p. Wessex - the ancient counties of Dorset, Somerset, Wiltshire, Hampshire and Berkshire - is remarkable for its economic and social cohesion as a region, and for the extraordinary wealth of its ancient remains. In this authoritative survey, Barry Cunliffe sets the great monuments and famous sites in their full cultural context. His chief concern,...
Norfolk Field Archaeology Division, 1992. — 404 p. — (East Anglian Archaeology 62). This volume describes three important sites in the town which were excavated in advance of redevelopment: a three-acre area of the Late Saxon town south of Brandon road, an adjacent group of pottery kilns, and a pre-Conquest church. The excavations show the topography and development of Late...
BAR Publishing, 1994. — 198 p. — (BAR British Series 237). This book presents the theory of historical archaeology in practice, seeing how new perspectives may be able to solve the problem of archaeologists' inability to recognise secular settlement sites in Celtic Britain. In four parts, the first chapter presents an outline of recent theory and historical archaeology....
BAR Publishing, 2005. — 153 p. — (BAR British Series 399). This work is an examination of the transitional period spanning the end of Roman Britain and the beginning of the medieval period, in a small region centred on South Cadbury Castle, Somerset, England. It aims to set this well-known post-Roman settlement in its proper landscape and regional context through a landscape...
Oxbow Books, 2016. — 336 p. Castles and the Anglo-Norman World draws together a series of 20 papers by 26 French and English specialists in the field of Anglo-Norman studies. It includes summaries of current knowledge and new research into important Norman castles in England and Normandy, drawing on information from recent excavations. Sections consider the evolution of...
Oxbow Books, 2016. — 336 p. Castles and the Anglo-Norman World draws together a series of 20 papers by 26 French and English specialists in the field of Anglo-Norman studies. It includes summaries of current knowledge and new research into important Norman castles in England and Normandy, drawing on information from recent excavations. Sections consider the evolution of...
Norfolk Field Archaeology Division, 1993. — 198 p. — (East Anglian Archaeology 63). Part of the Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Illington was excavated by Group Captain Knocker in 1949. 200 cremation urns and 3 inhumations were mapped and lifted, and the remains of about two hundred other vessels were also recovered. Many of the decorated urns belong to the Illington/Lackford workshop,...
The Norfolk Archaeological Unit, 1988. — 128 p. — (East Anglian Archaeology 44). This companion volume to EAA 14 looks at a further six villages — Rougham and Beachamwell, with surviving earthworks; Letton and Kilverstone, which had earthworks in 1946 when aerial photographs were taken; and Holkham and Houghton, which disappeared under parkland in the 17th and 18th centuries....
Oxbow Books, 2007. — 306 p. The environmental archaeological evidence from the site of Flixborough (in particular the animal bone assemblage) provides a series of unique insights into Anglo-Saxon life in England during the 8th to 10th centuries. The research reveals detailed evidence for the local and regional environment, many aspects of the local and regional agricultural...
Oxbow Books, 2007. — 306 p. The environmental archaeological evidence from the site of Flixborough (in particular the animal bone assemblage) provides a series of unique insights into Anglo-Saxon life in England during the 8th to 10th centuries. The research reveals detailed evidence for the local and regional environment, many aspects of the local and regional agricultural...
English Heritage, 1993. — 236 p. — (English Heritage Archaeological Report 23). These excavations, the first archaeological examination of the medieval fortress of Beeston Castle, showed conclusively that the site has been used since prehistory. Divided into two parts, the report first describes the site's occupation from the Mesolithic period to the thirteenth century....
The British Museum, 1986. — 128 p. — ISBN: 9780714105758. The Sutton Hoo site is one of the most important archaeological discoveries ever made in Britain, and arguably the world. The summer of 1939 saw one of the most exciting archaeological finds ever dug from British soil, an undisturbed Anglo-Saxon ship burial at Sutton Hoo, near Woodbridge in Suffolk. The ship, nearly 30m...
Oxbow Books, 2009. — xxv, 486 p. — (Excavations at Flixborough; Vol. 2). — ISBN: 9781842173107. Between 1989 and 1991, excavations in the parish of Flixborough, North Lincolnshire, unearthed remains of an Anglo-Saxon settlement associated with one of the largest collections of artefacts and animal bones yet found on such a site. In an unprecedented occupation sequence from an...
Oxbow Books, 2009. — xxv, 486 p. — (Excavations at Flixborough; Vol. 2). Between 1989 and 1991, excavations in the parish of Flixborough, North Lincolnshire, unearthed remains of an Anglo-Saxon settlement associated with one of the largest collections of artefacts and animal bones yet found on such a site. In an unprecedented occupation sequence from an Anglo-Saxon rural...
Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England, 1987. — 416 p. — (Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England, Archaeological Report 3). The Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Buckland, Dover, was discovered when a new housing estate was being constructed in 1951. It was excavated by Professor Evison between 1951 and 1953. The cemetery of some 170 graves dates from...
Council for British Archaeology, 1996. — 154 p. — (CBA Research Reports 103). The evidence gleaned from two Anglo-Saxon cemeteries discovered during gravel digging near Beckford in 1958 reflect an isolated, inbred community with very limited contacts beyond their vicinity. This volume is a full archaeological report of the cemeteries, with details of each inhumation (24 graves...
Council for British Archaeology, 1994. — 254 p. — (CBA Research Reports 91). Bronze-bound buckets - Jean M Cook The human remains - Tony Waldron Appendix 1: catalogue of skeletons from Great Chesterford Appendix 2: catalogue of pathological findings in human remains from Great Chesterford The animal bones - Dale Serjeantson A possible identification of the bird portrayed by the...
Select papers from the Ninth Viking Congress, Isle of Man, 4-14 July 1981. — London: Viking Society For Northern Research, 1983. — 187 p. — ISBN: 0-903521-16-4. The Ninth Viking Congress met in Douglas, Isle of Man, 4-14 July 1981. Since a good many of the papers read at the Congress dealt with aspects of the Viking Age in the Island and its immediate world, the Committee...
Historic England / Liverpool University Press, 2022. — 128 p. The Staffordshire Hoard is one of the great discoveries of British archaeology, an unparalleled treasure of the early Anglo-Saxon period. Chanced upon in summer 2009, in an ordinary field north of Birmingham, its hundreds of objects of the 6th to 7th centuries AD amount to a total of 4kg of gold and 1.7kg of silver....
Society of Antiquaries of London, 2020. — 640 p. The Staffordshire Hoard: An Anglo-Saxon Treasure tells the story of the Hoard’s discovery, acquisition for the nation, and the six-year research project that pieced its fragments back together, identified its objects and explored their manufacture. Written by a team of specialists in Anglo-Saxon archaeology and history, and...
Suffolk County Council, Archaeological Service, 2015. — 244 p. — (East Anglian Archaeology Monograph, Book 155). In 2000, a second early Anglo-Saxon cemetery was found at Sutton Hoo in Suffolk, 500m north of the famous royal burial-ground. The new burial-ground probably began as a ‘folk’ cemetery where the rites of cremation and inhumation were practiced. Nevertheless, the...
Routledge, 2005. — 448 p. — (The Society for Medieval Archaeology Monographs 23). This book presents essays that exemplify key themes including the interdependence of conservation, research and access; the need for a 21st-century inventory of the medieval sculpture; the breadth and value of the wide range of the research tools; and conservation issue. This publication is the...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 1100 p. — ISBN: 978–0–19–874471–9. The Middle Ages are all around us in Britain. The Tower of London and the castles of Scotland and Wales are mainstays of cultural tourism and an inspiring cross-section of later medieval finds can now be seen on display in museums across England, Scotland, and Wales. Medieval institutions from Parliament and...
Archaeopress, 2022. — 106 p. Early Anglo-Saxon Christian Reliquaries presents a corpus and discussion of a group of Anglo-Saxon copper-alloy containers dating to the seventh and possibly eighth centuries, and variously described as work boxes, needle cases, amulet containers or Christian reliquaries. Seventy-one boxes, some incomplete or fragmentary, have been recorded from...
London Council for British Archaeology, 1991. — 216 p. — (CBA Research Reort 74). From cloth to creel - riverside industries in Norwich - B. S. Ayers Industry and economics on the medieval and later London waterfront - G. Egan Industry and environment in medieval Bristol - R. H. Jones Aspects of - the recent development of the port of Bristol - P. W. Elkin Newcastle upon Tyne...
Edinburgh University Press, 1998. — 296 p. This book provides a full overview of the archaeology of the Vikings in Scotland, incorporating many results from the recent period of intense fieldwork and excavation. This work has necessitated a thorough re-appraisal of our knowledge of the process, nature and extent of Scandinavian settlement in Scotland. Concentrating on the...
The Norfolk Archaeological Unit, 1987. — 226 p. — (East Anglian Archaeology 36.1). This work being merely intended as a Catalogue raisonne of the contents of a Saxon Cemetery, excavated during 1974 and 1975, we have contented ourselves with detailing the results of our labours, and abstained from making any observation on the nature, and application of the relics exhumed,...
The Norfolk Archaeological Unit, 1987. — 184 p. — (East Anglian Archaeology 36.2). This work being merely intended as a Catalogue raisonne of the contents of a Saxon Cemetery, excavated during 1974 and 1975, we have contented ourselves with detailing the results of our labours, and abstained from making any observation on the nature, and application of the relics exhumed,...
New York: Atbeneum, 1970 - 169 p.
The Treasure of Sutton Hoo is the only book published in the USA about this significant excavation of an Anglo-Saxon king's ship burial. Priceless treasure found in the burial chamber, the finest collection of Anglo-Saxon craftsmanship in gold, silver and garnet, could have come only from a royal treasury.
Routledge, 2017. — 346 p. — (The Society for Medieval Archaeology Monographs 38). "The Archaeology of the 11th Century" addresses many key questions surrounding this formative period of English history and considers conditions before 1066 and how these changed. The impact of the Conquest of England by the Normans is the central focus of the book, which not only assesses the...
Oxbow Books, 2013. — 272 p. The study of early medieval towns has frequently concentrated on urban beginnings, the search for broadly applicable definitions of urban characteristics and the chronological development of towns. Far less attention has been paid to the experience of living in towns. The thirteen chapters in this book bring together the current state of knowledge...
Oxbow Books, 2013. — 272 p. The study of early medieval towns has frequently concentrated on urban beginnings, the search for broadly applicable definitions of urban characteristics and the chronological development of towns. Far less attention has been paid to the experience of living in towns. The thirteen chapters in this book bring together the current state of knowledge...
Oxbow Books, 2016. — 192 p. Rosemary Cramp's influence on the archaeology of early Medieval Britain is nowhere more apparent than in these essays in her honour by her former students. Monastic sites, Lindisfarne and Whithorn, are the inspiration for Deirdre O'Sullivan's and Peter Hill's papers; Chris Loveluck discusses the implications of the findings from the newly-discovered...
English Heritage, 1993. — 346 p. The complex multi-period archaeological landscape at Mucking provided the first opportunity, between 1965 and 1978, to excavate an Anglo-Saxon settlement and associated cemeteries simultaneously. With two cemeteries, at least 53 posthole buildings, and over 200 sunken huts (Grubenhauser), Mucking remains the most extensive Anglo-Saxon settlement...
Oxford University Press, 2012. — 208 p. In the course of the fifth century, the farms and villas of lowland Britain were replaced by a new, distinctive form of rural settlement: the settlements of Anglo-Saxon communities. This volume presents the first major synthesis of the evidence - which has expanded enormously in recent years - for such settlements from across England and...
London: Society of Antiquaries of London, 1992. — 94 pp. — (Archaeologia monograph; 110). — ISBN: 0-85431-260-9; ISSN: 0261-3409. Archaeologists have shown uneven interest in the three principal forms of weapon used in early Anglo-Saxon England (the fifth to seventh centuries). Swords, though rare, have appeared disproportionately interesting on account of their decoration and...
Amsterdam University Press, 2021. — 314 p. — (The Early Medieval North Atlantic). For centuries, archaeologists have excavated the soils of Britain to uncover finds from the early medieval past. These finds have been used to reconstruct the alleged communities, migration patterns, and expressions of identity of coherent groups who can be regarded as ethnic 'Anglo-Saxons'. Even...
Oxbow Books, 2014. — 240 p. The Tribal Hidage, attributed to the 7th century, records the named groups and polities of early Anglo-Saxon England and the taxation tribute due from their lands and surpluses. Whilst providing some indication of relative wealth and its distribution, rather little can be deduced from the Hidage concerning the underlying economic and social realities...
BAR Publishing, 1979. — 282 p. — (BAR British Series 72). Colin Smith - Romano-British Place-Names in Bede Margaret U. Jones - Saxon Mucking—a post Excavation Note Tania M. Dickinson - On the Origin and Chronology of the Early Anglo-Saxon Disc Brooch Sonia Chadwick Hawkes - Eastry in Anglo-Saxon Kent: its Importance and a newly found Grave Teresa Briscoe - Note on an Aquitanian...
Council for British Archaeology, 1999. — 292 p. — (CBA Research Reports 117). A ruined arcade of 12th- and 13th-century arches in the suburbs of Gloucester is all that remains of a minster church founded c 900 AD by Æthelred, Ealdorman of Mercia and his wife Æthelflæd, daughter of Alfred the Great. The minster was established at the time of the refoundation of the town of...
Archaeopress Archaeology, 2022. — 342 p. Medieval Birmingham: People and Places, 1070-1553 , attempts to show through documentary and archaeological evidence how it evolved from a village into its present role as the second city of the United Kingdom. It looks at the lives of the Bermingham family, who owned the town and ruled the townsmen. It looks at their retinue, who held...
Boydell Press, 2009. — 384 p. For decades scholars have puzzled over the true story of settlement in Britain between the fifth and eight centuries. Did the Romans leave? Did the Anglo-Saxons invade? What happened to the British? Newlight on these questions comes unexpectedly from Wasperton, a small village on the Warwickshire Avon, where archaeologists had the good fortune to...
The Norfolk Archaeological Unit, 1987. — 232 p. — (East Anglian Archaeology 34). This volume is the fourth in the series of catalogues of burials from the Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Spong Hill, North Elmham, Norfolk (Site 1012). It contains descriptions and illustrations of the cremation pottery and grave-goods excavated in 1979 from the south-eastern part of the cemetery as well...
Routledge, 2000. — 136 p. — (The Society for Medieval Archaeology Monographs 16). Contents Include: An introduction to the grave, conservation, metallurgical and other analyses, a catalogue of organic and inorganic materials, and a discussion of dates and context. David A. Hinton is an Emeritus Professor of Archaeology, University of Southampton. He is a former editor of the...
Routledge, 1990. — 245 p. — ISBN: 0-415-18848-2. Many books have been written on particular aspects of medieval archaeology, or on particular parts of the period, but synthesis across the whole spectrum has not been attempted before. The aim of this book is to examine the contribution that archaeology can make to an understanding of the social, economic, religious and other...
Oxford University Press, 2005. — 439 p. — (Medieval History and Archaeology). — ISBN: 0-19-926453-8. In medieval Britain people wore jewellery made of gold if they were rich, of base metal if they were poor; they might hoard their property, or give it away to guarantee that they would have friends when needed; and many of them paid tax on their possessions. In Gold and Gilt,...
BAR Publishing, 2011. — 192 p. — (BAR British Series 529/Birmingham Archaeology Monograph Series 7). This report describes the results of an archaeological programme undertaken by Birmingham Archaeology between 2005 and 2007 at King's Norton, Birmingham, for King's Norton Parochial Church Council. It also incorporates the documentary research conducted independently by George...
BAR Publishing, 2011. — 311 p. — (BAR British Series 546/Birmingham Archaeology Monograph Series 11). A report on the archaeological and historical investigations undertaken at Tutbury Castle, Staffordshire. The town of Tutbury is situated on the eastern border of Staffordshire in central England some 15km south west of Derby and 6.5km north west of Burton upon Trent. Around...
Cornell University Press, 1989. — 230 p. The year 1066 has been regarded traditionally as a great divide in English history, an apparent break with the past which has gained even greater status recently as historians have pushed back the origins of English society to earlier and earlier medieval generations. Further than 1066 it is difficult to go, for this marks the point...
Boydell & Brewer, 2010. — 208 p. — (Anglo-Saxon Studies 15). The conversion to Christianity of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of East Anglia left huge marks on the area, both metaphorical and literal. Drawing on both the surviving documentary sources, and on the eastern region's rich archaeological record, this book presents the first multi-disciplinary synthesis of the process. It...
Boydell Press, 2010. — 222 p. — (Anglo-Saxon Studies 15). The conversion to Christianity of the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of East Anglia left huge marks on the area, both metaphorical and literal. Drawing both on the surviving documentary sources, and on the eastern region's rich archaeological record, this book presents the first multi-disciplinary synthesis of the process. It...
Sidestone Press, 2014. — 222 p. In this book an analysis of over 300 animal bone assemblages from English Saxon and Scandinavian sites is presented. The data set is summarised in extensive tables for use as comparanda for future archaeozoological studies. Animals in Saxon and Scandinavian England takes as its core four broad areas of analysis. The first is an investigation of...
English Heritage, 2009. — 481 p. This volume - originally published in 1977 and long out-of-print, but still in demand - describes the excavation of a site near Wooler in Northumberland which is identified with the place called Ad Gefrin by the Venerable Bede. There, Edwin of Northumbria had a northern palace; and there Paulinus, his Roman missionary, achieved mass-conversions....
Edinburgh University Press, 2022. — 292 p. Provides an overview of recent discoveries from Viking Age and Norse Scotland. - Twenty years after the last major holistic contribution by EUP, this book will be central to shaping studies of Viking and Norse Scotland, becoming an essential purchase for students, educators, and the general reader alike - Brings together results from...
Council for British Archaeology, 1998. — 156 p. — (CBA Research Reports 116). The assemblage of Middle-Saxon glass fragments from the settlement at Saxon Hamwic ranks as one of the most important of its period anywhere in Europe. It derives from a time in early Christian England when knowledge of glass production was slowly developing, but when pagan graves - the traditional...
Archaeopress, 2022. — 252 p. Stratton, Biggleswade: 1,300 years of village life in eastern Bedfordshire from the 5th century AD presents the results of 12 hectares of archaeological excavation undertaken between 1990 and 2001. As well as uncovering roughly half of the medieval village, the investigations revealed that Stratton's origins stretched back to the early Anglo-Saxon...
Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 2008. — 446 p. Around AD 800, a superbly carved cross-slab was erected at Hilton of Cadboll in north-east Scotland. The major part of the stone now stands in the National Museum of Scotland, and the story of what happened to it in the intervening centuries is told here. Excavations at Hilton of Cadboll in 1998 and 2001 revealed not only...
Taylor & Francis, 1999. — 500 p. This volume offers comprehensive coverage of the archaeology of Anglo-Saxon England, bringing together essays on specific fields, sites and objects, and offering the reader a representative range of both traditional and modern methodologies and interdisciplinary approaches to the subject. Individual sections deal with settlement archaeology, the...
BAR Publishing, 2015. — 309 p. — (BAR British Series 621). — ISBN13 9781407314181. — ISBN10 1407314181. Medieval castles are, as Professor Liddiard states in his Foreword to this volume, 'evocative monuments and perhaps more than any other building capture the ideals of the Middle Ages.' This idealization and romanticism of castles, however, can often obscure their histories as...
BAR Publishing, 2009. — 111 p. — (BAR British Series 494). — ISBN13 9781407305370. — ISBN10 1407305379. Though many small archaeological investigations have been made within the town in the last 35 years, it is only with the present Wallingford Burh to Borough Project that Wallingford has become the subject of an in-depth archaeological study. The Project recognized that the...
University of Minnesota Press, 1992. — 248 p. The discovery in 1939 of a richly outfitted ship buried at Sutton Hoo, near Woodbridge in East Anglia, provided a range of important information to a wide range of disciplines, including archaeology, art history, economic history, folklore, literary studies and numismatics. This volume details the interdisciplinary impact of Sutton Hoo...
Leicester University Press, 1990. — 237 p. — (Archaeology of Medieval Britain). Medieval Fortifications is the most complete archaeological account ever published of the development, form and function of fortification in Britain between the Norman conquest and the accession of the Tudors. In the last forty years huge improvements have been made in the techniques of excavation...
Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 2013. — (Medieval History and Archaeology Series). — xx, 308 p. : 8 colour plates, 115 figs., 47 maps, 17 tables. This book is the first detailed archaeological study of Viking‐Age female jewellery in Scandinavian styles found in England. Based on primary archival and archaeological research, it presents evidence for over 500 brooches and...
Boydell Press, 2020. — 352 p. Norwich was second only to London in size and economic significance from the late Middle Ages through to the mid-seventeenth century. This book brings together, for the first time, the rich archaeological evidence for urban households and domestic life in Norwich, using surviving buildings, excavated sites, and material culture. It offers a broad...
Archaeopress Archaeology, 2019. — 48 p. Scholars each have their own rationale as to the ‘site’ of this momentous battle. Their thirst for recognition has created diverse arguments, some flooding the media, others proposing to the point of acrimony that they have this ‘site’. The ‘conundrum’ is whether any identification of the ‘site’ is correct for all, apart from the...
Brepols Publishers, 2013. — 286 p. Stone sculpture constitutes the richest surviving corpus of Viking-Age artefacts from the British Isles. In northern England, the geographical focus of the present study, sculptural production in the Viking period increased dramatically compared to the previous centuries, and stone monuments underwent changes in style and iconography, as well...
Master thesis in Archaeology. — Oslo: 2014. — 106 p. The present study discusses the royal and ecclesiastical involvement in the emergence and development of the trading centre and Episcopal seat of Bergen in the period AD 1050-1250. The focus of this thesis is to establish what role the King and the Church played in the medieval town through a study of the monumental buildings...
Oxbow Books, 2006. — 190 p. The Mote of Mark is a low boss of granite rising from forty-five metres above the eastern shore of Rough Firth, where the Urr Water enters the Solway, between the villages of Kippford and Rockcliffe. The summit comprises a central hollow between two raised areas of rock and was formerly defended by a stone and timber rampart enclosing one third of an...
Pen & Sword History, 2017. — 152 p. There is no single event in the history of our nation that has impacted society as profoundly as the Norman Conquest. These were brutal times and revolts prompted the erection of a large number of timber and earth castles, the majority being built between 1071 and 1145. Yorkshire has many examples and this book goes in search of sites that...
Pen & Sword History, 2017. — 152 p. There is no single event in the history of our nation that has impacted society as profoundly as the Norman Conquest. These were brutal times and revolts prompted the erection of a large number of timber and earth castles, the majority being built between 1071 and 1145. Yorkshire has many examples and this book goes in search of sites that...
BAR Publishing, 2019. — 287 p. — (BAR British Series 649/UCL Institute of Archaeology PhD Series 1). The research presented in this book advances scholarship on Anglo-Saxon non-elite rural settlements through the analysis of material culture. Forty-four non-elite sites and the high-status site of Staunch Meadow, occupied throughout the Anglo-Saxon period (c. 5th-11th centuries)...
Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1995. — 206 p. — (Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Monograph series 10). Jedburgh Abbey has long been acknowledges as one of the finest examples of romanesque architecture in Scoland. Following through excavation of the claustral ranges to the south of the church in 1984, new information came to light regarding the everyday life of the...
Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2003. — 432 p. — ISBN: 0-85115-904-4. The castles of the eleventh and twelfth centuries remain among the most visible symbols of the Anglo-Norman world. This collection brings together for the first time some of the most significant articles in castle studies, with contributions from experts in history, archaeology and historic buildings. Castles...
Pen and Sword Archaeology, 2015. — 179 p. Nottingham: The Buried Past of a Historic City Revealed covers the story of the part of the city, which was known as Nottingham during the medieval times. It is an accessible read and the ideal book for anyone with a general interest in the history of the city of Nottingham, however, will suit professional archaeologists and students...
1980 г. Язык: англ. В книге представлено детальное описание результатов раскопок, проведенных в 1966-1970 гг в самом знаменитом англосаксонском погребальном комплексе Саттон-Ху.
Oxbow Books, 2007. — 237 p. — (Excavations at Flixborough 4). Between 1989 and 1991, excavations in the parish of Flixborough, North Lincolnshire, unearthed remains of an Anglo-Saxon settlement associated with one of the largest collections of artefacts and animal bones yet found on such a site. In an unprecedented occupation sequence from an Anglo-Saxon rural settlement, six...
Oxbow Books, 2007. — 256 p. Between 1989 and 1991, excavations in the parish of Flixborough, North Lincolnshire, unearthed remains of an Anglo-Saxon settlement associated with one of the largest collections of artefacts and animal bones yet found on such a site. In an unprecedented occupation sequence from an Anglo-Saxon rural settlement, six main periods of occupation have...
BAR Publishing, 2005. — 293 p. — (BAR British Series 385). The purpose of this study is to investigate where castles were built in the four south-eastern Midland counties of Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire and Northamptonshire in the period 1066-1100 and why. Such a study can illuminate not only a great deal about the castles themselves, but since castles were...
Oxbow Books, 2016. — 456 p. Excavations at Mucking, Essex, between 1965 and 1978, revealed extensive evidence for a multi-phase rural Romano-British settlement, perhaps an estate centre, and five associated cemetery areas (170 burials) with different burial areas reserved for different groups within the settlement. The settlement demonstrated clear continuity from the preceding...
Oxbow Books, 2016. — 456 p. Excavations at Mucking, Essex, between 1965 and 1978, revealed extensive evidence for a multi-phase rural Romano-British settlement, perhaps an estate centre, and five associated cemetery areas (170 burials) with different burial areas reserved for different groups within the settlement. The settlement demonstrated clear continuity from the preceding...
University of Wales Press, 2014. — 434 p. Carmarthen Castle was one of the largest castles in medieval Wales. It was also one of the most important, in its role as a centre of government and as a Crown possession in a region dominated by Welsh lands and Marcher lordships. Largely demolished during the seventeenth century, it was subsequently redeveloped, first as a prison and...
Council for British Archaeology, 1999. — 220 p. A report on the manufacturing debris and an a wide range of objects in these materials retrieved from five locations in the city of York. The assemblage covers the date range of c. 850 to c. 1450, but the bulk of material is of Anglo-Scandinavian date (c. 850 to late eleventh century) and was recovered from 16--22 Coppergate. The...
York Archaeological Trust, 2003. — 220 p. The latest fascicule of finds from excavations at York examines artefacts made from a number of materials, such as stone, jet, amber, glass, fired clay and non-ferrous metalwork. There is some overlap with earlier fascicules, especially with textile tools, but this volume presents old and new material thematically and includes discussions...
Council for British Archaeology, 1998. — 374 p. — (CBA Research Reports 112). Barrington has been a familiar name in Anglo-Saxon archaeology since the discovery of its cemeteries in the 19th century. In 1987 the site of Barrington A (Edix Hill) was rediscovered by a metal-detector user. Approximately 50% of the cemetery was investigated as part of the ensuing excavations which...
Norwich Survey, 1993. — 282 p. — (East Anglian Archaeology 58). This volume is a catalogue of the finds excavated by the Norwich Survey between 1971 and 1978, with the exception of pottery and clay tobacco pipes, separately published. The finds are classified broadly as dress and personal possessions, furnishings and household equipment, building materials; occupations,...
Archaeopress Archaeology, 2020. — 124 p. This report outlines investigation of the early manor at Guiting Power, a village in the Cotswolds with Saxon origins, lying in an area with interesting entries in the Domesday Survey of 1086. Excavation has shown that, during the later Saxon period, a lightly defended compound contained a principal area of habitation, with an adjacent,...
Boydell Press, 2015. — 406 p. — (Anglo-Saxon Studies 25). Cruciform brooches were large and decorative items of jewellery, frequently used to pin together women's garments in pre-Christian northwest Europe. Characterised by the strange bestial visages that project from the feet of these dress and cloak fasteners, cruciform brooches were especially common in eastern England...
Leicester, 1988. — 521 p. The first regional assessment of pottery from Late Saxon to Tudor times covers the technology, production and distribution, pottery and society, before providing a select gazetteer of sites and their main pottery types, arranged by region of England-Wales-Scotland within three broad time ranges. Dating problems are taken as less important than...
Historic Buildings & Monuments Commission for England, 1990. — 298 p. — (English Heritage Archaeological Report 18). In 1092 a castle, presumably of earth and timber, was first built at Carlisle, on an elevated site to the north of the city. Converted into stone during the course of the twelfth century, and substantially increased in size, it has occupied the same spot ever...
Routledge, 2017. — 254 p. Carlisle charts the city's emergence as an urban centre under the Romans and traces its vicissitudes over subsequent centuries until the high Middle Ages. Arguably, the most important theme that differentiates its development from many other towns is its position as a 'border' city. The characteristics of the landscape surrounding Carlisle gave it special...
BAR Publishing, 2013. — 200 p. — (BAR British Series 575). This work examines the effectiveness of the use of GIS and GIS viewsheds as tools in the study of medieval castles in Ireland. To date, archaeological usage of GIS viewsheds has centred on prehistoric funerary sites. Little work has been done using GIS in relation to medieval castles, a subject and time-frame which is...
Archaeopress Archaeology, 2019. — 82 p. The discovery in 1997 in Northamptonshire of a richly furnished burial dating to the late 7th century AD made national headlines and captured the public imagination. The grave contained a young adult male of princely class. Buried with him were, among other objects, a helmet (deliberately ‘killed’ before burial), a decorated sword, and a...
Boydell & Brewer Ltd., 2019. — 256 p. — (Anglo-Saxon Studies 35). Burial evidence provides the richest record we possess for the centuries following the retreat of Roman authority. The locations and manner in which communities chose to bury their dead, within the constraints of the environmental and social milieu, reveal much about this transformational era. This book offers a...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 384 p. Peasant Perceptions of Landscape marks a change in the discipline of landscape history, as well as making a major contribution to the history of everyday life. Until now, there has been no sustained analysis of how ordinary medieval and early modern people experienced and perceived their material environment and constructed their...
English Heritage, 2001. — 165 p. The Cripplegate area of London was the site of a Roman fort and later of medieval structures and artefacts. Excavations between 1946 and 1968 by Professor W F Grimes for the Roman and Medieval London Excavation Council were carried out on 25 bomb-damaged sites, and were preliminarily reported by him in 1968. As part of a major post-excavation...
English Heritage, 1997. — 142 p. — (English Heritage Archaeological Report 11). One of the first English attempts to mount the total research excavation of an urban parish church, at blitz-damaged St Bride's in Fleet Street in the City of London, is recorded in this report. St Bride's foundation date is earlier than indicated by surviving documentary records and highlights the...
Amsterdam University Press, 2019. — 300 p. — (The Early Medieval North Atlantic). Transformations of Identity and Society in Anglo-Saxon Essex: A Case Study of an Early Medieval North Atlantic Community presents the results of a comprehensive archaeological study of early medieval Essex (c.AD 400-1066). This region provides an important case study for examining coastal...
Council for British Archaeology, 2003. — 392 p. — (The Archaeology of York; The Small Finds 17). Leather was one of the most important materials used by pre-industrial societies. The raw materials, hides and skins, were readily available as a by-product of meat provision. After processing, the resultant leather was a highly versatile material, being both strong and flexible,...
BAR Publishing, 1983. — 232 p. — (BAR British Series 119). In 1962 and 1963 archaeological excavations were carried out by the National Museum of Ireland on a plot of ground bordered by High Street, Nicholas Street and Back Lane south of Christ Church Cathedral in the old city of Dublin. In 1967 excavation of a more extensive area bordered by High Street and Back Lane was begun...
BAR Publishing, 2006. — 221 p. — (BAR British Series 415). — ISBN13 9781841719542. — ISBN10 1841719544. In the early 16th century Weobley was described as 'a market town in Herefordshire, where is a goodly castell, but somewhat in decay'. Less than a century later, and based on a plan made by Silas Taylor, all that remained of the castle were a few walls, a series of robbed...
Council for British Archaeology, 1998. — 198 p. — (CBA Research Reports 115). In 1994 the distorted timbers of a medieval boat came to light at Magor Pill, on the coast of the Gwent Levels, when storms washed away the sediments which had covered them since the boat ran aground about 700 years ago. This report charts the complex and difficult excavation and recovery of the boat...
Oxford: Archaeopress Archaeology, 2022. — 260 p. With contributions by Ryan Lavelle, James Mather, Emma Corke, Philippa Pearce, Alexandra Baldwin, Helen Ward, Jane Kershaw, Simon Coupland and Julian Baker. Presenting the complete publication of the objects and coins in the Watlington Hoard, the authors discuss its wider implications for our understanding of hoarding in late...
Archaeopress, 2021. — 402 p. Ringforts were an important part of the rural settlement landscape of early medieval Ireland (AD 400–1100). While most of those circular enclosures were farmsteads, a small number had special significance as centres of political power and elite residence, also associated with specialized crafts. One such ‘royal site’ was Garranes in the mid-Cork...
Council for British Archaeology, 2002. — 542 p. This report is the definitive publication of some 6,000 objects made in a wide range of materials, including iron and non-ferrous metals, stone, glass and jet. They come from contexts dated to between c.1066 and 1600, excavated at four major sites in the medieval city; 16–22 Coppergate (medieval tenements), Bedern foundry...
Routledge, 2023. — 262 p. Southend, one of five medieval settlements in Burton Dassett parish, Warwickshire, was the site of a market promoted by the manorial lord Bartholomew de Sudeley, with a charter being obtained in 1267. The settlement prospered, becoming known as Chipping Dassett, and approached urban status, but then declined throughout the 15th century. It was...
Routledge, 2023. — 262 p. Southend, one of five medieval settlements in Burton Dassett parish, Warwickshire, was the site of a market promoted by the manorial lord Bartholomew de Sudeley, with a charter being obtained in 1267. The settlement prospered, becoming known as Chipping Dassett, and approached urban status, but then declined throughout the 15th century. It was...
Archaeopress, 2019. — 310 p. The Lost Abbey of Eynsham will be of interest not just to local historians but to those with an interest in the development of monasticism and medieval art and architecture, particularly the Romanesque. Eynsham was one of the few religious foundations in England in continuous use from the late Saxon period to the Dissolution. Its first Benedictine...
Field Archaeology Division/Norfolk Museums Service, 1990. — 40 p. — (East Anglian Archaeology; Occasional Papers 5). An assessment excavation was carried out on a low but distinct mound in Oxborough parish where a metal-detector survey and fieldwalking had recovered forty-one Early Saxon objects and a concentration of prehistoric flints, suggesting that the mound represented...
Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, 1987. — 478 p. — (Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Monograph series 5). Excavations, finds and environmental remains, and historical and geological background.
BAR Publishing, 2006. — 271 p. — (BAR British Series 420). The aims of this work are to provide as complete a list as possible of all the timber, motte and bailey castles, built in the counties of Gwent and Ergyng, Wales, between AD 1050 and 1250. The list not only records number and place, but also size, shape,type, date of construction and date of disuse. It is also intended,...
Historic Environment, Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service, 2009. — 574 p. — (East Anglian Archaeology 132). With major contributions from Umberto Albarella, Sue Anderson, Mark Beech, Niall Donald, Alison Goodall, Julia Huddle, Irena Lentowicz, Alison Locker, Quita Mould, Jacqui Mulville, Peter Murphy, Andy Shelley and Margot Tillyard. In the 1980s work began on construction...
Historic Environment, Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service, 2009. — 616 p. — (East Anglian Archaeology 132). With major contributions from Umberto Albarella, Mark Beech, Niall Donald, Alison Goodall, Julia Huddle, Alison Locker, Irena Lentowicz, Marta Moreno García, Quita Mould, Jacqui Mulville, Peter Murphy, Andy Shelley and Margot Tillyard. In the 1980s work began on...
Council for British Archaeology, 1998. — 278 p. — (CBA Research Reports 110). St Bartholomew's was founded in the early thirteenth century, just outside the city of Bristol, and incorporated a surviving Norman hall. It was closed just before the Reformation and some elements of the hall and church are still standing. The substantial excvations which were undertaken on this site...
Archaeopress, 2023. — 196 p. Berkeley Castle Tales presents the outcomes of the 15-year-long University of Bristol excavations and landscape research at the Berkeley Castle estate in South Gloucestershire. The project, which in 2016 won the prestigious Current Archaeology award for the Archaeology Project of the Year, aimed at writing, through material culture and extensive...
Archaeopress, 2023. — 197 p. Berkeley Castle Tales presents the outcomes of the 15-year-long University of Bristol excavations and landscape research at the Berkeley Castle estate in South Gloucestershire. The project, which in 2016 won the prestigious Current Archaeology award for the Archaeology Project of the Year, aimed at writing, through material culture and extensive...
Harper Perennial, 2005. — 320 p. Leading archaeologist Francis Pryor retells the story of King Arthur, legendary king of the Britons, tracing it back to its Bronze Age origins. The legend of King Arthur and Camelot is one of the most enduring in Britain's history, spanning centuries and surviving invasions by Angles, Vikings and Normans. In his latest book Francis Pryor – one of...
Harper Perennial, 2007. — 320 p. As he did in Britain B.C. and Britain A.D. (also accompanied by Channel 4 series), eminent archaeologist Francis Pryor challenges familiar historical views of the Middle Ages by examining fresh evidence from the ground. The term 'Middle Ages' suggests a time between two other ages: a period when nothing much happened. In his radical reassessment,...
HarperPress, 2012. — 320 p. From the author of Britain BC , Britain AD and Britain in the Middle Ages comes the fourth and final part in a critically acclaimed series on Britain's hidden past. The relevance of archaeology to the study of the ancient world is indisputable. But, when exploring our recent past, does it have any role to play? In The Birth of Modern Britain Francis...
Council for British Archaeology, 1992. — 478 p. — (CBA Research Reports 83). The report describes rescue excavations in 1971 and 1978 in the south-east corner of Tamworth, outside the Saxon defences, but just inside (and incorporating part of) the medieval town ditch. The first substantial activity in the area was the construction of a horizontal-wheeled watermill in the mid...
BAR Publishing, 1988. — 282 p. — (BAR British Series 190). The author develops computer techniques for recording Medieval land divisions and boundaries and their relationship to sites and monuments on the Isle of Man; these are used to test the impact of Viking settlement. The book shows how new informationa from fieldwork can be added to existing data held on a computer, and...
Oxford University Press, 2009. — 324 p. — (Medieval History and Archaeology). — ISBN: 978–0–19–954455–4. Reynolds' investigation into Anglo-Saxon deviant burials emerged from his PhD thesis, which he undertook at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, and completed in 1998. He decided not to publish his findings immediately afterward, because more information...
Archaeopress, 2021. — 156 p. Drying kilns, corn-dryers and malting ovens are increasingly familiar features in post-Roman, Anglo-Saxon and medieval archaeology. Their forms, functions and distributions offer critical insights into agricultural, technological, economic and dietary history across the British Isles. Despite the significance and growing corpus of these structures,...
Norfolk Field Archaeology Division, 1995. — 324 p. — (East Anglian Archaeology 73). Excavation of the Anglo-Saxon cemetery also revealed extensive occupation evidence: late Iron Age and Roman enclosures and field boundaries, an early Roman kiln, and a small settlement of 'sunken huts' and post-hole buildings possibly contemporary with the cemetery. Full reports on the...
Oxbow Books, 2021. — 416 p. With contributions from John Allan, Paul Bidwell, Delphine Frémondeau, David Gould, Robert Higham, Neil Holbrook, Mark Maltby, Gundula Müldner and Stephen Rippon. This first volume, presenting research carried out through the 'Exeter: A Place in Time' project, provides a synthesis of the development of Exeter within its local, regional, national and...
Oxbow Books, 2021. — 656 p. This second volume presenting the research carried out through the Exeter: A Place in Time project presents a series of specialist contributions that underpin the general overview published in the first volume. Chapter 2 provides summaries of the excavations carried out within the city of Exeter between 1812 and 2019, while Chapter 3 draws together...
English Heritage, 2004. — 480 p. For more than 400 years a substantial moated manor house at Iron Acton in South Gloucestershire was occupied first by the Acton family and then by the Poyntz family. Successive remodellings and extensions of the 13th-century building reflected the growth in wealth of the Actons, and later the increasing prosperity and rise to royal favour of...
English Heritage, 2001. — 666 p. — (English Heritage Archaeological Report 21). Vol. 1. Part 1. Historical and Structural Sequence. Vol. 2. Part 2. Specialist Studies: Artefacts and Burials Archaeological excavation, architectural survey and historical research carried out between 1978 and 1993 have elucidated the origins and early development, of Wells Cathedral. Study...
York Archaeological Trust, 2997. — 202 p. This volume is intended as a companion to the volume on the textile products from the same site, published in 1989 (AY 17/5). A total of 1,147 artefacts connected with textile production were recovered from the excavation at 16-22 Coppergate together with raw fibres, dyestuffs, teasels and other biological evidence. Of these, 1,006 of...
The Norfolk Archaeological Unit, 1987. — 128 p. — (East Anglian Archaeology 32). Excavations, architectural survey and documentary research are combined to illuminate the histories of the churches at Barton Bendish, Guestwick and Framingham Earl. At Barton Bendish, extensive excavation of All Saints’ showed seven constructional phases between 1100 and 1600. Finds include...
Archaeopress Archaeology, 2021. — 368 p. Excavations in 2007-8, ahead of an extension to the Bon Accord Centre in Aberdeen, uncovered backlands that would have formed part of the industrial quarter of the medieval town. The excavation charts the changing nature of the area, from an industrial zone in the medieval period, to horticultural and domestic spaces in post-medieval...
B.F.A., Louisiana State University, 1988 August, 2006 - 73 p. Seven miles from the Deben River in Suffolk, England is a large pagan cemetery named Sutton Hoo, which consists of eighteen burial mounds. The most impressive of these mounds contains a ninety-foot Anglo-Saxon ship buried beneath the earth. Atop the ship is a burial chamber that contained artifacts such as a helmet,...
Manchester University Press, 2020. — 336 p. Early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries are well-known for their rich grave goods, but this wealth can obscure their importance as a local phenomenon and the product of pluralistic, multi-generational communities. This book explores over one hundred early Anglo-Saxon and Merovingian cemeteries, seeking to understand them using a...
Equinox Publishing, 2011. — 344 p. — (Studies in the Archaeology of Medieval Europe). Winner of the London Archaeological Prize for outstanding publication of 2010-11 Since the early 1970s the increasingly effective conduct of archaeological work in the City of London and surrounding parts of the conurbation have revolutionised our view of the development and European...
Continuum, 2003. — 346 p.
Archaeologists have shown that towns can claim to be more representative of the nature of society of which they formed part than any other type of site. In towns we are most likely to find archaeological evidence of both long-distance and local trade, of exploitation of natural resources, of specialization and of technological evidence in...
Archaeopress, 2018. — 543 p. London’s Waterfront 1100–1666: excavations in Thames Street, London, 1974–84 presents and celebrates the mile-long Thames Street in the City of London and the land south of it to the River Thames as an archaeological asset. The argument is based on the reporting of four excavations of 1974–84 by the Museum of London near the north end of London...
Centre for the Study of the Viking Age, University of Nottingham, 2014. — (Language Myths and Finds 2). The Languages, Myths and Finds project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council, ran in the years 2013-14, coinciding with the British Museum’s international exhibition Vikings: Life and Legend. The aim of the project was to encourage conversations between...
Oxford University School of Archaeology, 2007. — 359 p. Volume 14 of the Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History series is dedicated to the archaeology of early medieval death, burial and commemoration. Incorporating studies focusing upon Anglo-Saxon England as well as research encompassing western Britain, Continental Europe and Scandinavia, this volume originated as...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 272 p. — (Medieval History and Archaeology). It has long been assumed that England lay outside the Western European tradition of castle-building until after the Norman Conquest of 1066. It is now becoming apparent that Anglo-Saxon lords had been constructing free-standing towers at their residences all across England over the course of the tenth...
Oxford University Press, 2018. — 272 p. — (Medieval History and Archaeology). It has long been assumed that England lay outside the Western European tradition of castle-building until after the Norman Conquest of 1066. It is now becoming apparent that Anglo-Saxon lords had been constructing free-standing towers at their residences all across England over the course of the tenth...
Oxbow Books, 2005. — 238 p. This volume examines South Uist, a small island in the soutern half of the Outer Hebrides. In the middle of the island lies the township of Bornais. This covers a particularly flat area of land which means that the three mounds can be seen all the more clearly. These mounds have been identified as being from the Viking period, with evidence of...
Windgather Press, 2021. — 240 p. The landscape of the north-east of Scotland ranges from wild mountains to undulating farmlands; from cosy, quaint fishing coves to long, sandy bays. This landscape witnessed the death of MacBeth, the final stand of the Comyns earls of Buchan against Robert the Bruce and the last victory, in Britain, of a catholic army at Glenlivet. But behind...
Council for British Archaeology, 1992. — 240 p. — (CBA Research Reports 82). The accidental discovery of a 6th century grave in 1982 led to the survey and excavation of an almost complete Anglo-Saxon cemetery between 1983 and 1985. This represents the first large-scale investigation of a well-furnished Early Anglo-Saxon cemetery within the presumed boundaries of Bernicia, the...
Oxford: Archaeopress Archaeology, 2022. — 252 p. Presents the results of 12 hectares of archaeological excavation undertaken between 1990-2001. As well as uncovering roughly half of the medieval village, the investigations revealed that Stratton’s origins stretched back to the early Anglo-Saxon period, with the settlement remaining in continuous use through to c. 1700....
Windgather Press, 2020. — 144 p. This book is intended to pull together our current knowledge of the ‘lost’ group of people called the Pecsaetna (literally, meaning the ‘Peak Sitters’) by synthesising more recent historical and archaeological research towards a better understanding of their activities, territory and identity. This group of people is shrouded in the mists of the...
Windgather Press, 2020. — 144 p. This book is intended to pull together our current knowledge of the ‘lost’ group of people called the Pecsaetna (literally, meaning the ‘Peak Sitters’) by synthesising more recent historical and archaeological research towards a better understanding of their activities, territory and identity. This group of people is shrouded in the mists of the...
Oxbow Books, 2018. — 656 p. Cille Pheadair is one of more than 20 Viking Age and Late Norse settlements discovered on the island of South Uist in the Outer Hebrides (Western Isles), off the west coast of Scotland. Its unusually well-preserved stratigraphic sequence of nine phases of occupation, including five longhouses and many smaller buildings, provides a remarkable insight...
BAR Publishing, 1996. — 70 p. — (BAR British Series 247). Sub-Roman Britain (AD 400-600): A Gazetteer of Sites is meant to be used as a quick-reference tool for archaeologists and historians studying late Roman and early medieval occupation in Britain. "Sub-Roman" is here used strictly chronologically to refer to the fifth and sixth centuries AD, not as a cultural or artistic...
Archaeopress Archaeology, 2014. — 204 p. What became of towns following the official end of ‘Roman Britain’ at the beginning of the 5th century AD? Did towns fail? Were these ruinous sites really neglected by early Anglo-Saxon settlers and leaders? Developed new archaeologies are starting to offer alternative pictures to the traditional images of urban decay and loss revealing...
Routledge, 2015. — 611 p.
In the preceding 25 years to this book’s publication in 1985 there was an extensive and unprecedented burst of archaeological activity in evidence from below-ground deposits, above-ground structures, and artefacts. During the boom of the late 1960s and 1970s, which led to go much central town redevelopment, it was buried remains which yielded the most...
Routledge, 2004. — 226 p. — ISBN: 0-203-25962-9 (Adobe eReader Format); 0-415-19788-0 (Print Edition). The Archaeology of the Medieval English Monarchy looks at the period between the reign of William the Conqueror and that of Henry VIII, bringing together physical evidence for the kings and their courts. John Steane looks at the symbols of power and regalia including crowns,...
Archaeopress, 2021. — 86 p. Thorvald’s Cross. The Viking Age Cross-Slab ‘Kirk Andreas MM 128’ and its Iconography provides an in-depth analysis of one of the Isle of Man’s most important and intriguing monuments. The Manx Crosses are a unique collection of Scandinavian-style grave stones unequalled in the medieval Viking World. Their carvings and inscriptions offer a window...
Stroud, Gloucestershire: Tempus Publishing, 2002. — 159 p. For the Anglo-Saxons the shield, more than any other piece of armour or weaponry, epitomised the warrior. Using the full range of archaeological, representational, literary and comparative sources, Ian Stephenson describes both the construction, decoration and use of their shields and is then able to throw considerable...
Archaeopress, 2019. — 201 p. Archaeological evidence for settlement and land use in early medieval Scottish upland landscapes remains largely undiscovered. This study records only the second excavation of one important and distinctive house form, the Pitcarmicktype building, in the hills of north-east Perth and Kinross. Excavation of seven turf buildings at Lair in Glen Shee...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 236 p.
In this innovative study, Sarah Tarlow shows how the archaeology of this period manifests a widespread and cross-cutting ethic of Improvement, one of the most current concepts of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain. Theoretically informed and drawn from primary and secondary sources in a range of disciplines, the author...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2015. — 232 p. The dramatic story of Richard III, England's last medieval king, captured the world's attention when an archaeological team led by the University of Leicester identified his remains in February 2013. The Bones of a King presents the official behind-the-scenes story of the Grey Friars dig from the team of specialists who discovered and identified his...
York Archaeological Trust, 1992. — 390 p. In 1976 the York Archaeological Trust initiated a large scale excavation at 16–22 Coppergate, in the heart of the walled city, directed by R. A. Hall. The primary aim of this excavation was to elucidate the scale and nature of Anglo-Scandinavian occupation in the area, but it was also hoped to locate stratified archaeological levels of...
Oslo: H. Aschehoug, 1940. — 164 p. The Relations belween the Scandinavian North and Western Europe before the Viking Period. The Viking Expeditions to Western Europe. Characterization. The Orkney Earls and the Hebrides. The Isle of Man. Ireland. The Norwegian Invasion under Torgisl and Olav the White. Ireland. The Kings of Ivar's Race down to the Battle of Clontarf 1014 A. D....
Oslo: H. Aschehoug, 1940. — 206 p. Grave Finds. Hoards. Finds fron Dwelling-Sites. Separate Finds. Find from Pit-Mosses. Celtic Antiquities from Scotland.
With a supplement of Viking antiquities on the continent of western Europe by Anathon Bjørn and Haakon Shetelig. — Oslo: H. Aschehoug, 1940. — 134 p. The following records of English Viking antiquities were collected by the undersigned Anathon Bjorn during a voyage in England in the months May to July 1925, after a preparatory review of archaeological literature and periodicals...
Oslo: H. Aschehoug, 1940. — 214 p. Ornamental Metal-Work of Irish Style, including personal Ornaments, Mountings, Terminals, Reliquaries etc. Bronze Bowls amd bronze-covered Wooden Buckets. Weapons from Western Europe, found in Norway. Coins of Western Europe from the Viking Period, Found in Norway. Balance Scales of Bronze, probably from Western Europe. Drinking-Horn Mountings...
London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1962. — xiv + 135 p. In the period A.D. 400-1100, perhaps more than in any other, it is necessary to bring together the results of historical, archaeological and place-name studies. Each provides information that is either badly preserved or not preserved at all in the other two, but it is not always realized how great are the difficulties...
Council for British Archaeology, 1989. — (The Archaeology of York. The Small Finds 17/5). Archaeological Introduction by R.A. Hall Comparative Material Preservation of the Finds Types of Fibre with a contribution on wool staples by M.L. Ryder FibrePreparation Anglo-Scandinavian Wool Textiles The sock in nalebinding Anglo-Scandinavian Textiles of Vegetable Fibre...
Suffolk County Planning Department, 1988. — 80 p. — (East Anglian Archaeology 38). Sixty-five inhumations and four cremations represent part of an Early Anglo-Saxon cemetery discovered in 1972 when building operations in Westgarth Gardens, Bury St Edmunds,were well advanced. The preservation of the human skeletal material ranged from total to virtually nonexistent. Twenty-one...
Council for British Archaeology, 1997. — 136 p. — (CBA Research Reports 111). This corpus brings together five hundred objects which are considered to be stirrup-strap mounts of the late Saxon period. Only a very few of these objects have previously been published as the corpus is largely the product of a profitable liaison with metal detectorists. By amassing such a large body...
Cambridge University Press, 2006. — 268 p. — ISBN10: 0521840198 ISBN13: 9780521840194 (eng)
How were the dead remembered in early medieval Britain? Originally published in 2006, this innovative study demonstrates how perceptions of the past and the dead, and hence social identities, were constructed through mortuary practices and commemoration between c. 400-1100 AD. Drawing on...
London: Thames and Hudson, 1960. — 231 p. — (Ancient Peoples and Places, Vol. 16). This book is intended to give a general view of Anglo-Saxon culture as seen through the eyes of the archaeologist. Introduction: The Study of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology. Historical Background and Pagan Burials. Christian Antiquities. The Life of the People. Weapons and Warfare. Anglo-Saxon Art.
Oxford: Archaeopress Archaeology, 2018. — 193 p. The carved stone crosses of the Isle of Man of the late fifth to mid-eleventh century are of national and international importance. They provide the most coherent source for the early history of Christianity in the Island, and for the arrival and conversion of Scandinavian settlers in the last century of the Viking Age – a...
Archaeopress, 2018. — 156 p. This book addresses the nature of play and its relationships with the world, as well as the relationships between people and objects. It begins with an account of ethnographic fieldwork among chess and card players in Edinburgh and Orkney and moves on to consider the findings in the light of archaeological sources. The work carried out amongst chess...
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