book cover
Download Sample PDF

H 290 x W 205 mm

216 pages

90 figures, 13 tables (colour throughout)

Published Mar 2025

Archaeopress Archaeology

ISBN

Paperback: 9781803279237

Digital: 9781803279244

DOI 10.32028/9781803279237

Recommend to a librarian

Keywords
Anglo-Saxon Archaeology; Hamwic; Museum Studies; Urban archaeology; Production

Related titles

Producers, Traders and Consumers in Urban Societies in Southern Britain and Europe

Post-Excavation and Museum Studies Presented to Professor Mark Brisbane

Edited by Mark Maltby, Deborah Hodges

Paperback
£40.00
Includes PDF

PDF eBook
(personal use)
£16.00

PDF eBook
(institutional use)
£40.00

Add to basket

Add to wishlist

Papers honor Mark's research on urbanization and trade in Britain and Europe, and his contributions to museums and museology. In two sections, the first provides up-to-date reviews of Hamwic (Saxon Southampton) and the second offers post-excavation studies in Britain and Europe and also includes developments in the Museum and Heritage sectors.

READ MORE

Contents

Editors Preface – Mark Maltby and Deborah Hodges       

 

Introduction – Katherine Barclay

 

Chapter 1. Hamwic Deconstructed: Imported Pottery and Issues of Middle Saxon Urban Discontinuity – Richard Hodges

 

Chapter 2. Boundaries and Burials: Investigating the Extent of Hamwic and the Development and Phasing of its Cemeteries – Matt Garner

 

Chapter 3. Phasing Hamwic – Ian Riddler and Nicola Trzaska-Nartowski

 

Chapter 4. Hamwic: Two Decades after the Stadium – Phil Andrews

 

Chapter 5. ‘Hamwic Drives You Mad’: The Hamwic Galleries – Duncan H. Brown

 

Chapter 6. Personal Objects and Personal Stories: Some Medieval Finds from Southampton – Ben Jervis

 

Chapter 7. Neighbourly Differences: Post-Roman Dorset and Hampshire Compared – David A. Hinton

 

Chapter 8. Winchester’s Saxon Defences: The North-west Corner – Kenneth Qualmann

 

Chapter 9. Beer, Butter or Identity in Death? – Catherine Hills and Sam Lucy

 

Chapter 10. Recent Zooarchaeological Studies on early Medieval Sites in Bedfordshire – Mark Maltby

 

Chapter 11. Feeding Medieval Antwerp: Evidence from the Burcht and Gorterstraat Sites, Antwerp, Belgium – Pam J. Crabtree

 

Chapter 12. From Winchester to Novgorod and Places Beyond and Between – Mick Monk and Penny Johnston

 

Chapter 13. The Novgorod Years – Clive Orton

 

Chapter 14. Crafts serving a City or a City serving Crafts? Analysis of Production in Princely Kyiv (10th-13th centuries) – Sergiy Taranenko  

 

Chapter 15. The Building Roman Britain Project: From HEIF to PhD – Owen Kearn and Stephen Clews

 

Chapter 16. The Salt ‘Ships’ of Nantwich, Cheshire 12th-17th Centuries – Andrew Fielding

 

Chapter 17. Evolution of the Verwood-Type Pottery Kiln: a More Traditional Industrial Revolution – Dan Carter

 

Chapter 18. Two Mid Nineteenth-Century Military Dioramas of Actions in the Northern War of New Zealand (1845-46): Histories and Comparative Material Study – David Gaimster

 

Chapter 19. The Pink Monster: Extracts from Research Commissioned by the Museums and Galleries Commission – Yvette Staelens

 

Bibliography

About the Author

Mark Maltby is a widely published zooarchaeologist. He is a Professor of Archaeology at Bournemouth University, where he has been a colleague of Mark Brisbane since 1990. They share common interests in the study of the development of European medieval towns. They co-authored the monograph Animals and Archaeology in Northern Medieval Russia: Zooarchaeological Studies in Novgorod and its Region (2020).


Deborah Hodges first met Mark Brisbane when they were undergraduates in Archaeology at the University of Southampton. She has worked on archaeological projects in the UK and Italy, notably the early Medieval monastic complex at San Vincenxo al Volturno in Molise, Italy. Her museum career spanned a curatorial post in the Keats-Shelley House in Rome, Italy and later at Bath Preservation Trust Museums.