Evidence and Intuition: Making Medieval Instruments
Evidence and Intuition: Making Medieval Instruments Adelman, Beth Early Music America (Fall 2005) Abstract The Atlakvida (The Lay of Attila), an 8th-or early 9th-century…
Conservation Policies in Palestine: A critical review
Conservation Policies in Palestine: A critical review By Mazen Iwais e-dialogos, Vol.1 (2011) Introduction: An accurate analysis over the subject of conservation and…
Byzantine Jewellery? Amethyst Beads in East and West during the Early Byzantine Period
Byzantine Jewellery? Amethyst Beads in East and West during the Early Byzantine Period Drauschke, Jörg “Intelligible Beauty”: Recent Research on Byzantine Jewellery, (London, 2010) Abstract…
Salisbury Cathedral, Wiltshire: Archaeological Evaluation and Assessment of Results
Salisbury Cathedral, Wiltshire: Archaeological Evaluation and Assessment of Results By Wessex Archaeology (Time Team, 2009) Summary: An archaeological evaluation was undertaken by Channel…
Hopi Oral Traditions and the Anglo Saxon Migration: serial migration in the European Early Medieval Period
Hopi Oral Traditions and the Anglo Saxon Migration: serial migration in the European Early MedievalPeriod Roberts, Christopher M. Paper given at the 74th Annual…
Saints, Monks and Bishops; cult and authority in the diocese of Wells (England) before the Norman Conquest
Saints, Monks and Bishops; cult and authority in the diocese of Wells (England) before the Norman Conquest Costen, Michael (University of Bristol, UK)…
Cultural Identity of the Russian North Settlers in the 10th – 13th Centuries: Archaeological Evidence and Written Sources
Cultural Identity of the Russian North Settlers in the 10th – 13th Centuries: Archaeological Evidence and Written Sources Makarov, N.A. Slavica Helsingiensia, 27,…
The Seigneurial residence in Normandy, 1125-1225: an Anglo-Norman Tradition?
The Seigneurial residence in Normandy, 1125-1225: an Anglo-Norman Tradition? Impey, Edward Medieval Archaeology, Vol.43 (1999) Abstract England and Normandy shared a common (although…
The early Norman castle at Lincoln and a re-evaluation of the original West Tower of Lincoln Cathedral
The early Norman castle at Lincoln and a re-evaluation of the original West Tower of Lincoln Cathedral Vince, Alan and Stocker, David Medieval Archaeology,…
Battle and trial: weapon injury burials of St Andrew’s Church, Fishergate, York
Battle and trial: weapon injury burials of St Andrew’s Church, Fishergate, York Daniell, Chris Medieval Archaeology, Vol.45 (2001) Abstract In 1985-6, York Archaeological…
Caring for the Dead in Late Anglo-Saxon England
This article will highlight the diversity of both burial rite and burial location in the later Anglo-Saxon period and will examine the ways in which the archaeological evidence serves to complement the contemporary written evidence for the treatment of the dead.
Medieval Irish had their own ways to stop the undead
Two skeletons discovered with large stones wedged into their mouths, were buried in this way around 1300 years ago to stop them rising from their graves to haunt the living, according to new documentary featuring the work of archaeologists from the Institue of Technology Sligo and St.Louis University.
Arthritis in Saxon and mediaeval skeletons
Arthritis in Saxon and mediaeval skeletons By Juliet Rogers, Iain Watt and Paul Dieppe British Medical Journal, Vol.283 (1981) Abstract: Examination of 400…
Rebellion, Combat, and Massacre: A Medieval Mass Grave at Sandbjerg near Næstved in Denmark
Rebellion, Combat, and Massacre: A Medieval Mass Grave at Sandbjerg near Næstved in Denmark By Pia Bennike Warfare and society : archaeological and…
The Archaeology of Medieval Villages in Bohemia and Moravia (Czech Republic)
The Archaeology of Medieval Villages in Bohemia and Moravia (Czech Republic) By Jan Klapste and Zdenek Smetanka Ruralia, Vol.1 (1996) Introduction: From the…
The Coppergate Helmet
The Coppergate Helmet By Dominic Tweddle Förnvännen, Vol. 78 (1983) Abstract: A helmet was discovered in 1982 during building works at Coppergate, York.…
Dozens of medieval finds reported in this year’s Treasure Trove of Scotland
The Scottish government has released the latest annual Treasure Trove report, which reveals several dozen new finds from the medieval period. The report,…
Early Anglo-Saxon personal equipment and structural ironwork from Saltwood Tunnel, Kent
Early Anglo-Saxon personal equipment and structural ironwork from Saltwood Tunnel, Kent By Ian Riddler, Esther Cameron and Sonja Marzinzik CTRL Specialist Report Series,…
Excavation of an early church and a women’s cemetery at St Ronan’s medieval parish church, Iona
Excavation of an early church and a women’s cemetery at St Ronan’s medieval parish church, Iona O’Sullivan, Jerry et al. Proceedings of the…
Archaeologists examine the Pillar of Eliseg
Archaeologists from Welsh universities have begun two weeks of excavations at the Pillar of Eliseg, a ninth-century AD stone monument which stands on…
Late Saxon Textiles from the City of London
Late Saxon Textiles from the City of London By Francis A. Pritchard Medieval Archaeology, Vol.28 (1984) Abstract: Archaeological investigations in the City of…
A social analysis of Viking jewellery from Iceland
This thesis is original in attempting to decipher the social messages conveyed in jewellery.
The beast within? Breaching human-animal boundaries in Anglo-Saxon paganism
Animals feature widely in early Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian culture; both domestic and wild species are recovered in varying proportions from archaeological contexts, they appear in later literature, in personal names, and dominate indigenous art in the latter half of the the first millennium AD.
Twelfth-century tollbooth building discovered in Scotland
Pioneering low altitude, hi-resolution vertical aerial photography has just been used to record what is believed to be the earliest upstanding architectural fabric…
Bishopstone and Lyminge
Bishopstone and Lyminge By Gabor Thomas British Archaeology, No.113 (July/August 2011) Introduction: It is now well established that the structure of the English…