Eckweek, Peasedown St John, Somerset: Survey and Excavations at a Shrunken Medieval Hamlet 1988-90

ISBN-13: 9780367860318 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 312 str.

Society for Medieval Archaeology

Opis

This volume presents the results of archaeological survey and excavation at Eckweek, Somerset, which yielded one of the most important medieval rural settlement sequences yet excavated from south-west England.

Spis treści

1 Introduction; 2 Documentary and Archaeological Background; 3 Surveys; 4 Excavations; 5 Artefacts and Environmental Evidence; 6 Independent Dating; 7 Reconstructing Late Saxon and Medieval Eckweek; 8 Synthesis

O autorze

Andrew Young was born in Gloucestershire, is a graduate of the University of Bristol and a former student of the late Mick Aston. He is a Member of the Chartered Institute for Archaeologists and has worked as a commercial archaeologist since 1987 and as Principal Archaeologist with Avon Archaeological Unit in Bristol, which he founded in 1991. He and his wife Donna live in Highland Scotland but he remains a Director of Avon Archaeology and also works part-time as Senior Archaeologist with Highland Archaeology Services.