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....
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...
London: HMSO for the Museum of London, 1987 – x + 169 p., 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 skill,...
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...
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 p., 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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 p. — (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...
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,...
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...
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...
Oxford, U.K.: 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...
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...
Boydell Press, 2002. — 432 p. 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 remain a controversial topic of...
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...
Boydell Press, 2015. — 406 p. 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 during the 5th and 6th centuries...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 Ph.D. 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...
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,...
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...
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 Press, 2018. — 272 p. 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 and eleventh centuries. Initially...
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,...
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...
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...
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.
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