Archaeology
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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 -
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 -
The Lost Art of the Anglo-Saxon World: The Sacred and Secular Power of Embroidery [Paperback]
Alexandra Lester-Makin (Author)
Regular Price: £38.00
Special Price: £30.40
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 -
Crafting Communities 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 -
Anglo-Saxon Towers of Lordship [Hardback]
Michael G. Shapland (Author)
£85.00ISBN: 9780198809463
Published by : Oxford University Press
Series: Medieval History and Archaeology
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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 res... .... 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)
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ISBN: 9781789250961
Published by : Oxbow Books
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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 -
Architecture, Society, and Ritual in Viking Age Scandinavia: Doors, Dwellings, and Domestic Space [Hardback]
Marianne Hem Eriksen (Author)
£75.00ISBN: 9781108497220
Published by : Cambridge University Press
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In this book, Marianne Hem Eriksen explores the social organization of Viking Age Scandinavia through a study of domestic architecture, and in particular, the doorway. A highly charged architectural element, the door is not merely a practical, con... .... Learn More -
Silver, Butter, Cloth: Monetary and Social Economies in the Viking Age [Hardback]
Jane Kershaw (Editor); Gareth Williams (Editor); Soren Sindbaek (Editor); James Graham-Campbell (Editor)
£75.00ISBN: 9780198827986
Published by : Oxford University Press
Series: Medieval History and Archaeology
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Silver, Butter, Cloth advances current debates about the nature and complexity of Viking economic systems. It explores how silver and other commodities were used in monetary and social economies across the Scandinavian world of the Viking Age (c. ... .... Learn More -
Formative Britain: The Archaeology of Britain, AD 400-1100 [Paperback]
Martin Carver (Author)
£26.99ISBN: 9780415524759
Published by : Routledge
Series: Routledge World Archaeology
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Formative Britain AD 400-1100 provides a detailed study of the archaeology of Britain and its inshore islands between AD 400 and 1100. For the first time a single-author book treats early medieval Britain as a whole, enabling Carver to show that t... .... Learn More -
Formative Britain: The Archaeology of Britain, AD 400-1100 [Hardback]
Martin Carver (Author)
£85.00ISBN: 9780415524742
Published by : Routledge
Series: Routledge World Archaeology
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Formative Britain AD 400-1100 provides a detailed study of the archaeology of Britain and its inshore islands between AD 400 and 1100. For the first time a single-author book treats early medieval Britain as a whole, enabling Carver to show that t... .... Learn More
