H 290 x W 205 mm
344 pages
140 figures, 33 plates, 34 tables
Published Apr 2021
ISBN
Paperback: 9781789694826
Digital: 9781789694833
Keywords
Church; burials; artefacts; interpretation; Yorkshire
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The result of c. 20 years of work on and around the church of St Gregory's Minster, Kirkdale, North Yorkshire, this work is concerned primarily with the 8th century onwards, but also extends the time-period of this isolated site, particularly for the post-Roman to middle Saxon period, but also as an earlier probably religious landscape.
Summary ;
Preface ;
Chapter 1: The Site of Kirkdale ;
Investigations in and around the Church ;
Chapter 2: The West Exterior ;
Chapter 3: The North Exterior ;
Chapter 4: The South Exterior ;
Chapter 5: The Chancel Exterior ;
Chapter 6: The Church Interior ;
Investigations in the locality ;
Chapter 7: Adjacent Fields ;
Assemblages ;
Chapter 8: Human bones ;
Chapter 9: The Artefacts ;
Synthesis ;
Chapter 10: Overview and Interpretation ;
References
'This well-presented and thoughtful report will be of interest from a wide range of perspectives. The excavations show how to use targeted trenches disturbing only a fraction of the available archaeology to unravel the history of a church. The explanations of stratigraphic sequences and logical inferences from the structure of the building show how to go about distinguishing the phases of a building, and are revealing about how rebuilding was undertaken. The expert osteoarchaeological analysis of the bodies, by Lizzie Craig-Atkins, adds a valuable cemetery population to our corpus. The catalogue of individual artefacts encompasses fragments of stone sculpture, fired clay, pottery, glass, melon beads, jet, a copper alloy strap end, and metal-working slags. The final overview and interpretation shows the limits of what our broader historical models and interpretations of the Anglo-Saxon Church can do when they are confronted by the sequence of developments at a single site.'–Thomas Pickles (2021): Northern History, DOI: 10.1080/0078172X.2021.1968175