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This new edition is completely rewritten and extended, but uses the
same chronological approach to investigate how society and economy
evolved. It draws on a wide range of new data, derived from
excavation, investigation of buildings, metal-detecting, and
scientific techniques. It examines the social customs, economic
pressures, and environmental constraints within which people
functioned, the technology available to them, and how they
expressed themselves, for example in their houses, their burial
customs, their costume, and their material possessions such as
pottery. Their adaptation to new circumstances, whether caused by
human factors such as the re-emergence of towns or changing
taxation requirements, or by external ones such as volcanic
activity or the Black Death, is explored throughout each chapter.
The new edition of Archaeology, Economy and Society remains
essential reading for students and researchers of the archaeology
of Medieval England.
This new edition is completely rewritten and extended, but uses the
same chronological approach to investigate how society and economy
evolved. It draws on a wide range of new data, derived from
excavation, investigation of buildings, metal-detecting, and
scientific techniques. It examines the social customs, economic
pressures, and environmental constraints within which people
functioned, the technology available to them, and how they
expressed themselves, for example in their houses, their burial
customs, their costume, and their material possessions such as
pottery. Their adaptation to new circumstances, whether caused by
human factors such as the re-emergence of towns or changing
taxation requirements, or by external ones such as volcanic
activity or the Black Death, is explored throughout each chapter.
The new edition of Archaeology, Economy and Society remains
essential reading for students and researchers of the archaeology
of Medieval England.
A unique early medieval assemblage of tools and associated
fragments of metal and glass was found during the excavation of a
prehistoric and Roman site in 1981. Post-excavation revealed that
the objects were Anglo-Saxon and had been placed in wooden boxes in
a grave. The tools included hammer heads, an anvil, tongs, clips
and snips plus punches, files and knife blades as well as iron
structural items. Ornate pieces of copper alloy and silver and
garnets were also recorded. The grave possibly dates from the mid
to late 7th century while some of the objects may have been in
circulation for the preceding century. No other Saxon features were
discovered on the site but the nature of the assemblage suggests
that the person in the grave was a jeweller, possibly itinerant,
who may have been skilled in ironwork as well.
Since the early 20th century the scholarly study of Anglo-Saxon
texts has been augmented by systematic excavation and analysis of
physical evidence-settlements, cemeteries, artefacts, environmental
data, and standing buildings. This evidence has confirmed some
readings of the Anglo-Saxon literary and documentary sources and
challenged others. More recently, large-scale excavations both in
towns and in the countryside, the application of computer methods
to large bodies of data, new techniques for site identification
such as remote sensing, and new dating methods have put archaeology
at the forefront of Anglo-Saxon studies. The Handbook of
Anglo-Saxon Archaeology, written by a team of experts and
presenting the results of the most up-to-date research, will both
stimulate and support further investigation into those aspects of
Anglo-Saxon life and culture which archaeology has fundamentally
illuminated. It will prove an essential resourse for our
understanding of a society poised at the interface between
prehistory and history.
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