Archaeology
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Towns and Topography: Essays in Memory of David H. Hill [Hardback]
Gale R. Owen-Crocker (Editor); Susan D. Thompson (Editor)
Regular Price: £60.00
Special Price: £14.95
ISBN: 9781782977025
Published by : Oxbow Books
Fifteen papers examine a variety of aspects of medieval towns and their topography. The first part of the volume comprises essays on the excavations in the Frankish emporium of Quentovic, directed by David Hill; London; Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Scand... .... Learn More -
Animals in Saxon and Scandinavian England [Paperback]
Matilda Holmes (Author)
£35.00ISBN: 9789088902666
Published by : Sidestone Press
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 S... .... Learn More -
Aggersborg: The Viking-Age Settlement & Fortress [Hardback]
Else Roesdahl (Editor); Søren M. Sindbaek (Editor); Anne Pedersen (Editor); David M. Wilson (Editor)
£47.00ISBN: 9788788415872
Published by : Aarhus University Press
Aggersborg is the largest of the Danish circular fortresses of the Viking Age. Built by the king, Harald Bluetooth, in the second half of the tenth century, it was strategically placed on the shore of the Limfjord. Together with other Danish forti... .... Learn More -
Prehistoric and Anglo-Saxon Discoveries on the East Kent Chalklands [Paperback]
Paul Bennett (Author); Keith Parfitt (Author); Jon Rady (Author)
£15.00ISBN: 9781870545266
Published by : Canterbury Archaeological Trust
Series: CAT Occasional Paper
Volume: 9
This latest volume in Canterbury Archaeological Trust’s Occasional Paper series describes discoveries along the route of the Whitfield-Eastry by-pass. An extensive programme of fieldwalking and evaluation investigated a number of sites: two sites... .... Learn More -
Everyday Life in Viking-Age Towns: Social Approaches to Towns in England and Ireland, c. 800-1100 [Hardback]
Letty ten Harkel (Editor); D. M. Hadley (Editor)
£45.00Click here for ebook buying options
ISBN: 9781842175323
Published by : Oxbow Books
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 experien... .... Learn More -
From Goths to Varangians: Communication & Cultural Exchange Between the Baltic &the Black Sea [Hardback]
Line Bjerg (Editor); John H. Lind (Editor); Søren M. Sindbaek (Editor)
£62.10ISBN: 9788779345379
Published by : Aarhus University Press
Series: (Black Sea Studies Series)
In late Antiquity, archaeology demonstrates lively and far-flung exchange along the river Dniester, through current Poland to the Baltic. By the 11th century the former Barbaricum had been transformed into a string of Christian kingdoms and princi... .... Learn More -
At the limits of Lundenwic [Paperback]
Louise Fowler (Author); Ruth Taylor (Author)
£15.00ISBN: 9781907586187
Published by : MOLA (Museum of London Archaeology)
Series: MoLAS Archaeology Studies Series
Volume: 27
This thought-provoking volume presents the results of the archaeological investigation of a large site in Lundenwic. A fragmentary sequence nevertheless includes possible Early Saxon activity, 7th- and 8th-century settlement featu... .... Learn More -
The Anglo-Saxon Church of All Saints, Brixworth, Northamptonshire: Survey, Excavation and Analysis, 1972-2010 [Hardback]
David Parsons (Author); Diana Sutherland (Author)
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ISBN: 9781842175316
Published by : Oxbow Books
All Saints’ Church, Brixworth lies 7 miles north of Northampton. The core of the church is Anglo-Saxon and the research published here provides an unprecedented account of one of the most important buildings of its period surviving in England. The... .... Learn More -
Viking Identities [Hardback]
Jane F. Kershaw (Author)
Regular Price: £92.00
Special Price: £65.00
ISBN: 9780199639526
Published by : Oxford University Press
Viking Identities is the first detailed archaeological study of Viking-Age Scandinavian-style female dress items from England. Based on primary archival and archaeological research, including the analysis of hundreds of recent metal-detector finds... .... Learn More -
Myth and History: Ethnicity & Politics in the First Millennium British Isles [Paperback]
Stephen James Yeates (Author)
£29.95ISBN: 9781842174784
Published by : Oxbow Books
Our recent understanding of British history has been slowly unravelling thanks to new techniques such as DNA analysis, new archaeological data and reassessment of the literary evidence. There are considerable problems in understanding the early... .... Learn More
