Over six thousand objects were recovered during the Winchester
excavations of 1961 to 1971 – by far the most extensive corpus of
stratified and datable medieval objects yet presented from a single
city. Martin Biddle and the team of eighty-three contributors
assembled by the Winchester Research Unit have used this material
to investigate not only the industries and arts, but the economic,
cultural, and social life of medieval Winchester. Their findings
are being published in two parts: the first part, by Katherine
Barclay, will deal with the pottery remains; and this second part
in two volumes by Martin Biddle covers all the objects from the
finest products of the Anglo-Saxon goldsmith’s skill to the iron
tenter-hooks of the cloth industry. Martin Biddle’s study of the
objects identifies change through time, and traces variation across
the broad social scale – from cottage to palace – represented
in the excavated sites. Using the objects as evidence for the
economy of the medieval city, it also throws new light on some of
the great questions of medieval industry and artistic production:
amongst them the development of the textile industry, the origins
of wire-drawing and the manufacture of pins, the beginnings of
window-glass production, and the earliest glass painting. These
objects are an essential part of the evidence for the development
and changing character of the excavated sites to be published in
forthcoming volumes of Winchester Studies on the Minsters. To
ensure complete integration between the objects and the sites,
every object in this volume is related to the context in which it
was found and a concordance provides a detailed conspectus phase by
phase of each of the twenty sites excavated between 1961-71, and of
the objects found in each phase.
General
| Imprint: |
Archaeopress Archaeology
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Series: |
Artefacts from Medieval Winchester |
| Release date: |
December 2023 |
| First published: |
2022 |
| Authors: |
Martin Biddle
(Emeritus Fellow / Honorary Fellow / Director)
|
| Dimensions: |
276 x 215mm (L x W) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
1410 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-80327-022-7 |
| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
1-80327-022-5 |
| Barcode: |
9781803270227 |
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