This book examines the contribution of archaeology to the study of the social, economic,
religious, and other developments in England from the end of the Roman period at the start …

Formative Britain presents an account of the peoples occupying the island of Britain
between 400 and 1100 AD, whose ideas continue to set the political agenda today. Forty …

This book explores the development of territorial identity in the late prehistoric, Roman, and
early medieval periods. Over the course of the Iron Age, a series of marked regional …

Fieldwork at Rendlesham in Suffolk has identified a major central place complex of the early–
middle Anglo-Saxon periods. This has particular significance in the light of Bede's eighth …

An exploration of small early folk communities prior to the eleventh century, showing their
development and sophistication. All communities have a strong sense of identity with the …

BETWEEN 2005 AND 2007, a large Anglo-Saxon cemetery was excavated at Street House,
near Loftus in Cleveland in north-eastern England. The site was discovered during a …

Abstract FOR 20 OR MORE YEARS early Anglo-Saxon archaeologists have believed
children are under-represented in the cemetery evidence. They conclude that excavation …

ANGLO-SAXON SILVER PENNIES (sceattas) are rare as gravegoods, but their provision
was a regular element of burial practice in a small minority of later 7th-century-furnished …

BURIAL IN A BED IS A RARE PHENOMENON, but one which is found persistently
throughout early medieval Europe. Bed burials are found across a wide geographic area …

In 2009, a metal-detector find of a rare garnet-inlaid composite disc brooch at West Hanney,
Oxfordshire, led to the excavation of an apparently isolated female burial sited in a …