With an appendix by Steven J. Plunkett. Illustrations by D. Sullivan, G. Wade, R. Green, R. Archer, D. Nuttall. Photographs by R. Carr.
It is eighty years since a comprehensive survey of Suffolk Anglo-Saxon material was published by R. A.Smith in the 'Victoria County History', and thirty years since R. Rainbird-Clarke’s provocative discussion in his 'East Anglia'. The great surge of interest that has occurred since the 1950s — excavations, field surveys, and the rapidly increasing reported discoveries — combine to make a new survey and catalogue highly desirable.
The corpus includes as much of the previously unpublished material as possible, but the treatment of some categories of finds, particularly from the recently published sites, has had to be selective. The work is essentially a catalogue, presented at a time of rapidly-changing views and approaches to the Anglo-Saxons and the appreciation of their ongoing contribution to our heritage. It is intended that it should be used as a primary source for the artefacts and their distribution in Suffolk as a basis for the greater understanding of the mechanics of the establishment and development of Anglo-Saxon East Anglia.
Author(s): Stanley West
Series: East Anglian Archaeology, 84
Publisher: Suffolk County Council
Year: 1998
Language: English
Pages: 384
City: Ipswich
Contents
List of Plates
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgements
Part I. The Catalogue
Introduction
Abbreviations, Typologies and Scales
The Catalogue
Part II. Discussion
Chapter 1
I. The Physical Background
II. The Romano-British Settlement of Suffolk
III. Historical Summary of Anglo-Saxon Studies in Suffolk
IV. Discovery
Chapter 2. The Early Anglo-Saxon Phase
I. The Distribution of Sites and Finds
II. Settlements
III. Cemeteries and Burial Practices, including analyses of grave goods
IV. Skeletal Positions
V. Artefacts - The Distribution of Selected Types
VI. The Badley Bowls
Chapter 3. The Middle Saxon Phase
Chapter 4. The Late Saxon Phase
Appendices
Bibliograhy
Index
