Fortified Settlements in Early Medieval Europe
Fortified Settlements in Early Medieval Europe

Author: Neil Christie

Publisher: Oxbow Books

Published: 2016-08-31

Total Pages: 970

ISBN-13: 178570236X

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Twenty-three contributions by leading archaeologists from across Europe explore the varied forms, functions and significances of fortified settlements in the 8th to 10th centuries AD. These could be sites of strongly martial nature, upland retreats, monastic enclosures, rural seats, island bases, or urban nuclei. But they were all expressions of control - of states, frontiers, lands, materials, communities - and ones defined by walls, ramparts or enclosing banks. Papers run from Irish cashels to Welsh and Pictish strongholds, Saxon burhs, Viking fortresses, Byzantine castra, Carolingian creations, Venetian barricades, Slavic strongholds, and Bulgarian central places, and coverage extends fully from northwest Europe, to central Europe, the northern Mediterranean and the Black Sea. Strongly informed by recent fieldwork and excavations, but drawing also where available on the documentary record, this important collection provides fully up-to-date reviews and analyses of the archaeology of the distinctive settlement forms that characterized Europe in the Early Middle Ages.

Llawhaden, Dyfed
Llawhaden, Dyfed

Author: George Williams

Publisher: British Archaeological Reports Oxford Limited

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13:

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Summary report of Bronze Age, Iron Age and Romano-British activity at Llawhaden excavated in the early 1980s: concentrating on the major enclosures of Bodringallt, Woodside Camp, Dan-y-Coed, Broadway, Pilcomswell Camp and Holgan Camp.

The Oxford Handbook of Roman Britain
The Oxford Handbook of Roman Britain

Author: Martin Millett

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 945

ISBN-13: 0199697736

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This handbook is currently in development, with individual articles publishing online in advance of print publication. At this time, we cannot add information about unpublished articles in this handbook, however the table of contents will continue to grow as additional articles pass through the review process and are added to the site. Please note that the online publication date for this handbook is the date that the first article in the title was published online. Roman Britain is a critical area of research within the provinces of the Roman empire. Within the last 15-20 years, the study of Roman Britain has been transformed through an enormous amount of new and interesting work which is not reflected in the main stream literature.

Prehistoric Wales
Prehistoric Wales

Author: Frances Lynch

Publisher: Sutton Publishing Limited

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 280

ISBN-13:

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A title which aims to give the reader a modern and authoratative summary of research interpretations on prehistoric monuments, sites and artefacts. This book should be of interest to anyone who has a serious interest in Welsh history and in early settlement and society in the British Isles.

Cardiganshire County History: From the earliest times to the coming of the Normans
Cardiganshire County History: From the earliest times to the coming of the Normans

Author: Ieuan Gwynedd Jones

Publisher: University of Wales Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 498

ISBN-13:

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A reprint of the first volume of a comprehensive history of Cardiganshire from earliest times to the coming of the Normans, comprising interesting contributions by eminent scholars on geology and vegetation, archaeology and history, land settlements and early society in the county. 75 maps and diagrams and 38 black-and-white photographs. First published in 1994.