Medieval European Archaeology

Ancient aqueducts have long commanded the attention of archaeologists, both for their intrinsic, monumental importance and for their significance a...

We are very lucky to have small, contemporary records of history scattered throughout our soil in the form of lead seals. With a couple of notable ...

Tales of Two Cities tells the story of Old Sarum and Salisbury, from the middle of the tenth century to the beginning of the twentieth. The volume ...

The Viking Age in Scotland reviews two decades of research that have taken place since the last archaeological survey of the Vikings in Scotland, p...

How did people create and live in their own worlds in early medieval Ireland? What did they actually do? And to what end did they do it? This book ...

Landscapes across Europe were transformed, both physically and conceptually, during the early medieval period (c AD 400-1200), and these changes we...

Foreigners and Outside Influences in Medieval Norway results from an international conference held in Bergen, Norway, in March 2016, entitled Multi...

Excavation at Hereford Cathedral took place in 1993, prior to the construction of the Mappa Mundi Museum and new archive library. This revealed ext...

This illustrated book introduces serious students of Anglo-Saxon culture to selected aspects of the realities of Anglo-Saxon life through reference...

This book sets a new agenda for mortuary archaeology. Applying explicit case studies based on a range of European sites (from Scandinavia to Britai...

This monograph examines one specific hoard horizon, which is connected to the Mongol invasion of Hungary (1241-42). With this catastrophic event, t...

Carved and decorated stone-work is a rare survival from the period before the Norman Conquest. In Nottinghamshire it survives as large crosses and ...

A common belief is that systems of writing are committed to transparency and precise records of sound. The target is the language behind such marks...

Archaeological fieldwork in advance of mineral extraction spanning ten phases over 13 years at Horton Brook Quarry in Berkshire, revealed an extens...

Small archaeological excavations on sites in Cranleigh, Herstmonceux, Alfold, Crowborough, Icklesham, East Grinstead, Ringmer and Plumpton Green ar...

Short introduction to the amazing finds of garments from the Norse settlement of Herjolfnes in Greenland by Else Østergård. Chapters on technique: ...