Papers from the conference held by The Friends of the Whithorn Trust in Whithorn on September 15th 2007
This book includes papers from a 2007 conference marking 21 years of the Friends of Whithorn Trust. Contents: Introduction (Alex Woolf); Archaeology and the dossier of a saint: Whithorn excavations 1984-2001 (Jonathan Wooding); The Latinus stone: Whithorn's earliest Christian monument (Katherine Forsyth); Early Christian cemeteries in southwest Scotland (Dave C. Cowley); Christianity in northern Britain in the late-Roman period (Mike McCarthy); Britain and the continent in the...
Papers from the conference held by The Friends of the Whithorn Trust in Whithorn on September 15th 2007
Archaeological investigations in response to the expansion of Pode Hole sand and gravel quarry (Cambridgeshire, east England), exposed a well-preserved prehistoric Fen-edge landscape covering an area of approximately 24 hectares. Pottery dates and a series of radiocarbon determinations reveal that the site was occupied throughout the second millennium BC, with activity apparently intensifying later in that period. A substantial assemblage of locally made Bronze Age pottery and other artefacts was gathered during the excavations.
Principal Specialist Contributions from Paul Buckland,...
Archaeological investigations in response to the expansion of Pode Hole sand and gravel quarry (Cambridgeshire, east England), exposed a well-prese...
Papers from the conference held at the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of York, England, in November 2006. Contents: 1) Preface (Julian D. Richards); 2) A dialogue of the deaf and the dumb: archaeology, history and philology (Alex Woolf); 3) The practical implications of interdisciplinary approaches: researches in Anglo-Saxon East Anglia (Morn Capper); 4) Archaeology, history and economics: exploring everyday life in Anglian Deira (Caroline Holas-Clark); 5) The end of Anglo-Saxon furnished burial: an interdisciplinary perspective (Zoe L. Devlin); 6) Sculpture and lordship in...
Papers from the conference held at the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of York, England, in November 2006. Contents: 1) Preface (Julian ...
Principally through the use of landscape archaeology, this work explores the medieval landscape of west Wales, particularly the 'cwmwd' of Gwinionydd in the central Teifi valley, Ceredigion. The main focus of the study is to recreate the 'cwmwd-maenor-tref', territorial system administered by a pre-conquest Welsh aristocracy and locate native tenures along with their specific agricultural regimes. A retroactive analysis of estate structures, such as those at Llanfair and Llanllyr, establishes their medieval antecedence and they are considered alongside the monastic granges of Whitland,...
Principally through the use of landscape archaeology, this work explores the medieval landscape of west Wales, particularly the 'cwmwd' of Gwiniony...
The main objective of this study is to attempt a redefinition of research agenda for the early Christian archaeology of Argyll (southwestern Scotland) by redefining our approach to the data both theoretically and methodologically. The following study of the church utilizes a 'tool kit' of theoretical and methodological approaches that help to both quantify the amount of early Christian material available for study, and to qualify it within its landscape context.
The main objective of this study is to attempt a redefinition of research agenda for the early Christian archaeology of Argyll (southwestern Scotla...
This study, a revisiting of the author's PhD thesis, looks at Royal landholding in the Wessex shires of Hampshire and Dorset in the later Anglo-Saxon period. It analyses the techniques used for estate management across the different categories of landholding and examines the role of role agents. Of primary importance is evidence from Domesday Book backed up with other charters and wills. Ultimately conclusions are drawn about the nature of Royal power and the development of the Anglo-Saxon state.
This study, a revisiting of the author's PhD thesis, looks at Royal landholding in the Wessex shires of Hampshire and Dorset in the later Anglo-Saxon ...
This study looks at the archaeological evidence for Roman campaigning in Britain under the Flavians (AD 69-96). It discusses the tribal and place names in Ptolemy's map and the Ravenna Cosmology and attempts to identify the areas referred to. Finally it uses this information alongside Tacitus' Agricola, finding a remarkable degree of convergence with the archaeological and geo-political evidence.
This study looks at the archaeological evidence for Roman campaigning in Britain under the Flavians (AD 69-96). It discusses the tribal and place name...
This study looks at the changes that were taking place within later Iron Age society in East Anglia (the counties of Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, Essex, Norfolk and Suffolk, England) and the rise of complexity on both a macro and micro scale. To do this the author focuses on feasting and consumption and the role it played in changing the face of society during the Iron Age. It is not just food or drink themselves that are important, but also their consumption as a social event. The research focuses on a number of issues: Recognising the feast in the archaeological record; Separating the...
This study looks at the changes that were taking place within later Iron Age society in East Anglia (the counties of Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire,...
This study seeks to examine how late antique culture in the Bristol Channel region changed so dramatically in the two centuries following the collapse of Roman authority. It draws on post-colonial theory to examine local social and cultural responses, and substitutes the idea of cultural hybridisation for the received notion of monolithic cultural identities such as British, Celtic or Anglo-Saxon. Discussion centres on architecture (with the sites of Congresbury and Cadbury Castles and Dinas Powys reappraised), ceramics, and personal artefacts such as brooches.
This study seeks to examine how late antique culture in the Bristol Channel region changed so dramatically in the two centuries following the collapse...
This report studies Old-Norse Pap-names, which have traditionally been taken to indicate early Christian Gael settlements. It highlights the Hebrides and presents a toponymic inventory of Hebridean Pap-names, comparing them with areas of known early Christian settlement. It concludes that the Pap-names should be taken to denote not pre-Viking Christian settlement, but in fact the earliest Scandinavian colonisation of the area.
This report studies Old-Norse Pap-names, which have traditionally been taken to indicate early Christian Gael settlements. It highlights the Hebrides ...
