Archaeology
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Viking Encounters: Proceedings of the 18th Viking Congress [Hardback]
Anne Pedersen (Editor); Søren M Sindbæk (Editor)
£50.00ISBN: 9788771842654
Published by : Aarhus University Press
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The Viking Age is marked out as a watershed for profound cultural and social changes in northern societies: from the spread of Christianity to urbanization and political centralization. Interaction across boundaries or within communities constitut... .... Learn More -
Crafts and Social Networks in Viking Towns [Paperback]
Stephen P. Ashby (Editor); Søren Sindbaek (Editor)
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ISBN: 9781789251609
Published by : Oxbow Books
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Crafting Communities explores the interface between craft, communication networks, and urbanization in Viking-age Northern Europe. Viking-period towns were the hubs of cross-cultural communication of their age, and innovations in specialized craft... .... Learn More -
Glass Vessels in Anglo-Saxon England [Paperback]
Rose Broadley (Author)
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ISBN: 9781789253726
Published by : Oxbow Books
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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 -
A Norse Settlement in the Outer Hebrides: Excavations on Mounds 2 and 2A, Bornais, South Uist [Hardback]
Niall Sharples (Editor)
Regular Price: £45.00
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ISBN: 9781789250466
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Bornais
Volume: 3
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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)
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ISBN: 9781789251449
Published by : Oxbow Books
Series: Ancient Textiles
Volume: 35
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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 for the fi... .... Learn More -
The Staffordshire Hoard: An Anglo-Saxon Treasure [Hardback]
Chris Fern (Editor); Tania Dickinson (Editor); Leslie Webster (Editor)
£45.00ISBN: 9781527233508
Published by : Society of Antiquaries of London
Series: Research Report of the Society of Antiquaries of London
Volume: 80
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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 manufact... .... Learn More -
A Riverine Site Near York: A Possible Viking Camp? [Paperback]
Gareth Williams (Editor)
£40.00ISBN: 9780861592241
Published by : British Museum Press
Series: British Museum Research Publications
Volume: 224
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The location known as ‘A Riverine Site Near York (ARSNY)’ represents a category of Viking site known from the historical record but one that until recently had remained largely undetected archaeologically: the Viking camp. The published investigat... .... Learn More -
Looting or Missioning: Insular and Continental Sacred Objects in Viking Age Contexts in Norway [Hardback]
Egil Mikkelsen (Author)
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ISBN: 9781789253184
Published by : Oxbow Books
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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 -
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 s... .... Learn More -
The Prittlewell Princely Burial: Excavations at Priory Crescent, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, 2003 [Hardback]
Lyn Blackmore (Author); Ian Blair (Author); Sue Hirst (Author); Christopher Scull (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9781907586507
Published by : MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology)
Series: MOLA monograph
Volume: 73
An early Anglo-Saxon chamber grave discovered in 2003 at Prittlewell, Southend-on-Sea, Essex, proved to be a princely burial of international significance. Lying beneath a now vanished mound, the large wooden chamber contained the coffin of a man... .... Learn More
