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The Birsay Bay Project Volume 3 Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 720
ISBN: 9781789256079
Pub Date: 15 May 2021
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: Colour
Description:
The Brough of Birsay was the power-centre of the Viking earldom of Orkney and is one of Historic Environment Scotland’s key monuments and visitor attractions on the islands. This publication is the culmination of 60 years of investigations that took place on the site between 1954 and 2014.This new volume incorporates comprehensive accounts of work undertaken by Dr Ralegh Radford and Mr Stewart Cruden between 1954 and 1964, excavations by the Viking and Early Settlement Research Project under the direction of the author on site between 1974 and 1981, a rescue excavation in 1993, a geophysical survey in 2007 and archival research up to 2014.
RRP: £55.00
Tracing Old Norse Cosmology Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 248
ISBN: 9789188909619
Pub Date: 15 May 2021
Description:
The study of Old Norse religion is a truly multidisciplinary and international field of research. The rituals, myths, and narratives of pre-Christian Scandinavia have been studied and interpreted in detail by a vast number of scholars. They have long relied on the rich and varied Christian Icelandic literature from the Middle Ages, but a growing body of material culture from pagan Scandinavia has recently started to have an impact on current research.
Medieval Military Combat Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9781612008875
Pub Date: 15 Mar 2021
Illustrations: 50 illustrations
Description:
We don't know how medieval soldiers fought. Did they just walk forward in their armour, to smash each other with their maces and poleaxes, for hours on end, as depicted on film in programs such as Game of Thrones? They could not have done so.
Studies in the Roman and Medieval Archaeology of Exeter Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 656
ISBN: 9781789256192
Pub Date: 15 Mar 2021
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Exeter: A Place in Time
Illustrations: Colour
Description:
This second volume presenting the research carried out through the Exeter: A Place in Time project presents a series of specialist contributions that underpin the general overview published in the first volume. Chapter 2 provides summaries of the excavations carried out within the city of Exeter between 1812 and 2019, while Chapter 3 draws together the evidence for the plan of the legionary fortress and the streets and buildings of the Roman town. Chapter 4 presents the medieval documentary evidence relating to the excavations at three sites in central Exeter (High Street, Trichay Street and Goldsmith Street), with the excavation reports being in Chapter 5-7.
RRP: £35.00
Roman and Medieval Exeter and their Hinterlands Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 416
ISBN: 9781789256154
Pub Date: 15 Feb 2021
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Exeter: A Place in Time
Illustrations: Colour
Description:
This first volume, presenting research carried out through the Exeter: A Place in Time project, provides a synthesis of the development of Exeter within its local, regional, national and international hinterlands. Exeter began life in c. AD 55 as one of the most important legionary bases within early Roman Britain, and for two brief periods in the early and late 60s AD, Exeter was a critical centre of Roman power within the new province.
The Wandering Herd Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 312
ISBN: 9781911188797
Pub Date: 15 Feb 2021
Imprint: Windgather Press
Illustrations: B/w and colour
Description:
The British countryside is on the brink of change. With the withdrawal of EU subsidies, threats of US-style factory farming and the promotion of ‘rewilding’ initiatives, never before has so much uncertainty and opportunity surrounded our landscape. How we shape our prospective environment can be informed by bygone practice, as well as through engagement with livestock and landscapes long since vanished.
RRP: £34.99
Everyday Life in Viking-Age Towns Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 272
ISBN: 9781789255461
Pub Date: 05 Jan 2021
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
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 experience of living in towns.The thirteen chapters in this book bring together the current state of knowledge about Viking-Age towns (c.
Viking Encounters Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 635
ISBN: 9788771842654
Pub Date: 15 Nov 2020
Illustrations: 120 illustrations
Description:
The Viking Congresses bring together scholars of archaeology, philology, history, toponymy, numismatics and a number of other disciplines to discuss the Viking Age from a variety of viewpoints. This volume contains 44 peer-reviewed papers selected from those presented at the 18th Viking Congress held in Denmark in August 2017. The contributors take up the interdisciplinary challenge, and the papers cover a wide range of subjects, rooted in the past, but also connecting to the present.
Exploring Celtic Origins Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 224
ISBN: 9781789255508
Pub Date: 01 Oct 2020
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Description:
Exploring Celtic Origins is the fruit of collaborative work by researchers in archaeology, historical linguistics, and archaeogenetics over the past ten years. This team works towards the goal of a better understanding of the background in the Bronze Age and Beaker Period of the people who emerge as Celts and speakers of Celtic languages documented in the Iron Age and later times. Led by Sir Barry Cunliffe and John Koch, the contributors present multidisciplinary chapters in a lively user-friendly style, aimed at accessibility for workers in the other fields, as well as general readers.
Pecsaetna Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 144
ISBN: 9781911188681
Pub Date: 15 Aug 2020
Imprint: Windgather Press
Illustrations: B/W
Description:
This book is intended to pull together our current knowledge of the ‘lost’ group of people called the Pecsaetna (literally, meaning the ‘Peak Sitters’) by synthesising more recent historical and archaeological research towards a better understanding of their activities, territory and identity. This group of people is shrouded in the mists of the so-called ‘Dark Ages’ and are only known to us by the chance survival of less than a handful of documents.Since the mid-20th century, valuable work has been done to identify former Anglo-Saxon estates in the Peak from the analysis of charters and from the Domesday survey, together with recent wider historical analysis.
Llangorse Crannog Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 512
ISBN: 9781789253061
Pub Date: 31 Dec 2019
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w and colour
Description:
The crannog on Llangorse Lake near Brecon in mid Wales was discovered in 1867 and first excavated in 1869 by two local antiquaries, Edgar and Henry Dumbleton, who published their findings over the next four years. In 1988 dendrochronological dates from submerged palisade planks established its construction in the ninth century, and a combined off- and on-shore investigation of the site was started as a joint project between Cardiff University and Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales. The subsequent surveys and excavation (1989-1994, 2004) resulted in the recovery of a remarkable time capsule of life in the late ninth and tenth century, on the only crannog yet identified in Wales.
Burgen in umstrittenen Landschaften Cover Burgen in umstrittenen Landschaften Cover
Format: 
Pages: 444
ISBN: 9789088908682
Pub Date: 18 Dec 2019
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 62fc
Pages: 444
ISBN: 9789088908675
Pub Date: 18 Dec 2019
Imprint: Sidestone Press
Illustrations: 62fc
Description:
In ganz Europa bestimmten Burgen im hohen und späten Mittelalter die Herrschaftspraxis. Doch während dies in zahlreichen Regionen hinreichend Beachtung findet, wurde das südliche Jütland bislang weder von der Regionalgeschichts- noch von der Burgenforschung als Burgenlandschaft wahrgenommen. Dabei vermitteln Ortsnamen wie Sønderborg, Wallanlagen wie etwa in Tørning und nicht zuletzt Schlossanlagen wie Gottorf, dessen Ursprung auf eine mittelalterliche Burg zurückgeht, noch heute einen lebhaften Eindruck von der einstigen Bedeutung derartiger Anlagen.
Crafts and Social Networks in Viking Towns Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9781789251609
Pub Date: 30 Nov 2019
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w and colour
Description:
Crafts and Social Networks in Viking Towns explores the interface between craft, communication networks, and urbanisation in Viking-Age northern Europe. Viking-period towns were the hubs of cross-cultural communication of their age, and innovations in specialised crafts provide archaeologists with some of the best evidence for studying this communication. The integrated results presented in these papers have been made possible through the sustained collaboration of a group of experts with complementary insights into individual crafts.
The Glass Vessels of Anglo-Saxon England c. AD 650-1100 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9781789253726
Pub Date: 15 Nov 2019
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Illustrations: b/w and colour
Description:
This volume combines a comprehensive exploration of all vessel glass from middle and late Anglo-Saxon England and a review of the early glass with detailed interpretation of its meaning and place in Anglo-Saxon society. Analysis of a comprehensive dataset of all known Anglo-Saxon vessel glass of middle Anglo-Saxon date as a group has enabled the first quantification of form, colour, and decoration, and provided the structure for a new typological, chronological and geographical framework. The quantification and comparison of the vessel glass fragments and their attributes, and the mapping of the national distribution of these characteristics (forms, colours and decoration types), both represent significant developments and create rich opportunities for the future.
RRP: £35.00
The Staffordshire Hoard Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 640
ISBN: 9781527233508
Pub Date: 01 Nov 2019
Series: Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London
Illustrations: 355
Description:
The Staffordshire Hoard: An Anglo-Saxon Treasure tells the story of the Staffordshire Hoard’s discovery and acquisition, and the six-year research project that pieced its fragments back together, identified its objects and explored their manufacture. Key chapters discuss the decoration and meaning of the Hoard’s intricate ornament, the techniques of Anglo-Saxon craftsmen, the religious and historical background, and hoarding practice in Britain and Europe, to place this most exceptional find in context. Finally, the text explores the impact that the find has had locally, nationally and internationally in the twenty-first century.
A Norse Settlement in the Outer Hebrides Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 728
ISBN: 9781789250466
Pub Date: 31 Oct 2019
Imprint: Oxbow Books
Series: Bornais
Description:
The settlement at Bornais in the Western Isles of Scotland is one of the largest rural settlements known from the Norse period in Britain. It spans the period from the fifth to the fifteenth century AD when the Atlantic seaboard was subject to drastic changes. The islands were systematically ravaged by Viking raiders and then colonised by Norse settlers.