Anglo-Saxon & Viking
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The Glass Vessels of Anglo-Saxon England c. AD 650-1100 [Paperback]
Rose Broadley (Author)
£35.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781789253726
Published by : Oxbow Books
This volume combines a comprehensive exploration of all vessel glass from middle and late Anglo-Saxon England and a review of the early glass with detailed interpretation of its meaning and place in Anglo-Saxon society. Analysis of a comprehensive... .... Learn More -
The Staffordshire Hoard: An Anglo-Saxon Treasure [Hardback]
Chris Fern (Editor); Tania Dickinson (Editor); Leslie Webster (Editor)
£49.95ISBN: 9781527233508
Published by : Society of Antiquaries of London
Series: Research Report of the Society of Antiquaries of London
Volume: 80
The Staffordshire Hoard: An Anglo-Saxon Treasure tells the story of the Staffordshire Hoard’s discovery and acquisition, and the six-year research project that pieced its fragments back together, identified its objects and explored their... .... Learn More -
A Norse Settlement in the Outer Hebrides: Excavations on Mounds 2 and 2A, Bornais, South Uist [Hardback]
Niall Sharples (Editor)
£35.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781789250466
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Bornais
Volume: 3
The settlement at Bornais in the Western Isles of Scotland is one of the largest rural settlements known from the Norse period in Britain. It spans the period from the fifth to the fifteenth century AD when the Atlantic seaboard was subject to dra... .... Learn More -
The Lost Art of the Anglo-Saxon World: The Sacred and Secular Power of Embroidery [Paperback]
Alexandra Lester-Makin (Author)
£38.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781789251449
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Ancient Textiles Series
Volume: 35
This latest title in the highly successful Ancient Textiles series is the first substantial monograph-length historiography of early medieval embroideries and their context within the British Isles. The book brings together and analyses f... .... Learn More -
Looting or Missioning: Insular and Continental Sacred Objects in Viking Age Contexts in Norway [Hardback]
Egil Mikkelsen (Author)
£48.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781789253184
Published by : Oxbow Books
Until now insular and continental material, mostly metal-work, found in pagan Viking Age graves in Norway, has been interpreted as looted material from churches and monasteries on the British Isles and the Continent. The raiding Vikings brought th... .... Learn More -
St Michael's Church, Workington: Excavation of an Early Medieval Cemetery [Paperback]
John Zant (Author); Adam Parsons (Author)
£20.00ISBN: 9781907686313
Published by : Oxford Archaeology North
Series: Lancaster Imprints
Volume: 26
In September 1994, the parish church of St Michael, Workington, was badly damaged by fire, reducing the interior to a shell. The church’s history extends back to at least the twelfth century, and an existing collection of eighth- to eleventh-centu... .... Learn More -
The Anglo-Saxon Princely Burial at Prittlewell, Southend-on-Sea [Paperback]
Sue Hirst (Author); Christopher Scull (Author)
£15.00ISBN: 9781907586477
Published by : MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology)
In 2003 archaeologists discovered an intact princely burial between busy Priory Crescent and the railway line near Priory Park in Prittlewell. A find of international significance, this is the richest and most important Anglo-Saxon burial found si... .... Learn More -
The Viking Way: Magic and Mind in Late Iron Age Scandinavia [Hardback]
Neil Price (Author)
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ISBN: 9781842172605
Published by : Oxbow Books
Magic, sorcery and witchcraft are among the most common themes of the great medieval Icelandic sagas and poems, the problematic yet vital sources that provide our primary textual evidence for the Viking Age that they claim to describe. Yet desp... .... Learn More -
Beside the Ocean: Coastal Landscapes at the Bay of Skaill, Marwick, and Birsay Bay, Orkney: Archaeological Research 2003-18 [Hardback]
David Griffiths (Author); Jane Harrison (Author); Michael Athanson (Author)
£45.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781789250961
Published by : Oxbow Books
The Bay of Skaill, Marwick Bay, and Birsay Bay form openings in the high sandstone cliffs of Orkney’s Atlantic coast. These west-facing bays have long been favoured locations for settlement, with access to the ocean, to fresh water, to land and to... .... Learn More -
Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History 21 [Paperback]
Helena Hamerow (Editor)
£30.00ISBN: 9781905905447
Published by : Oxford University School of Archaeology
Series: Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History
Volume: 21
A selection of papers on the Anglo-Saxon period, including papers on non-ferrous dress-accessories from early medieval Lincoln; The Anglo-Saxon settlement at Catholme, Staffordshire; transformation and use of insular moun... .... Learn More
