With contributions by Marion M. Archibald, Steven Ashby, Nancy Beavan Athfield, Rachel Ballantyne, Luke Barber, Martin Bell, Mike Bispham, John Blair, Mykhailo Buzinny, Gordon T. Cook, David Defries, Pieter M. Grootes, Ben Jervis, Lynne Keys, Mary Lewis, Peter Marshall, Robert Neal, Patrick Ottaway, Ben Pears, Kristopher Poole, Thomas Pickles, Johannes van der Plicht, Rebecca Reynolds, Louise C. D. Schoss and Elizabeth Somerville.
Well known for the Early Anglo-Saxon settlement previously excavated on Rookery Hill and its impressive pre-Conquest church, Bishopstone has entered archaeological orthodoxy as a classic example of a 'Middle Saxon Shift'. This volume reports on the excavations from 2002 to 2005 designed to investigate this transition, with the focus on the origins of Bishopstone village. Excavations adjacent to St. Andrews churchyard revealed a dense swathe of later Anglo-Saxon (8th- to late 10th-/early 11th-century) habitation, including a planned complex of timber halls, and a unique cellared tower. The occupation encroached upon a pre-Conquest cemetery of 43 inhumations.
Author(s): Gabor Thomas
Series: Council for British Archaeology. CBA Research Reports, 163
Publisher: Council for British Archaeology
Year: 2010
Language: English
Pages: 298
City: York
List of figures vii
List of tables x
List of colour plates xi
List of contributors xii
Acknowledgements xiii
Summary, with foreign language translations xv
1. Introduction 1
2. Landscape and environmental context 7
3. Historical synthesis 17
4. The settlement remains 35
5. The cemetery and human remains 73
6. The artefacts 87
7. Economic resources 142
8. Reconstructing Bishopstone 188
9. Bishopstone in context: wider archaeological perspectives 207
10. Conclusions 219
Appendices 224
Bibliography 246
Index 266
