Title:	Early medieval settlements: the archaeology of rural communities in Northwest Europe, 400–900
Authors:	Hamerow, Helena JOHN BLAIR
Keywords:	Europe, Western—Antiquities
Issue Date:	2002
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Description:	The idea for this book sprang from doctoral research undertaken in the 1980s into the development of the Anglo-Saxon settlement at Mucking, in Essex. At that time, no early medieval settlement had been excavated in Britain on a scale comparable to Mucking, where, in the 1960s and 1970s, some 18 hectares of a multi-period landscape had been investigated (Jones and Jones 1975; Hamerow 1993). Published reports of large-scale settlement excavations in northwest Europe—especially Germany, Denmark, and the Netherlands—and conversations with continental colleagues about their interpretations of these settlements provided the key to understanding Mucking’s development. They also convinced me that a greater familiarity with the innovative research being undertaken on the other side of the North Sea would enrich our interpretations of early medieval settlements in England, despite certain differences in excavation methods and in the character of the settlements themselves.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/51955
ISBN:	0–19–924697–1
Appears in Collections:	Archeology and Heritage Management

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