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Further reading

The Salisbury Hoard by Ian Stead and Colin Renfrew (Tempus, 2000) hardback/paperback £17.99/£12.99 ISBN: 0752414046/752414720
A modern Beowulf-like real-life saga of archaeological detection, leading to a unique prehistoric hoard. The Salisbury Hoard is the most remarkable hoard of prehistoric metalwork ever found in Britain, but knowledge of it was almost lost with artefacts scattered by metal-detectorists, dealers, auction houses and collectors. Thanks, however, to the dogged persistence of Dr Stead well over half the hoard has now been recovered and acquired by the British Museum, where it will be displayed as one of the most important finds of the century.

The Anglo-Saxons edited by James Campbell, Eric John and Patrick Wormald (Penguin, 1991) paperback £16
Three experts have collaborated to produce this complete, illustrated guide to the Anglo-Saxons, from their arrival in England to their conversion to Christianity and defence of Britain against Viking attacks.

An Archaeology of the Early Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms by C J Arnold (Routledge, new edition 1997) paperback £17.99
The key introduction to Anglo-Saxon studies and the polemics spurring research in this field. The book deals with the major questions concerning how Christian medieval England emerged from the chaotic and pagan Dark Ages.

Anglo-Saxon England and the Norman Conquest by H R Loyn (Addison Wesley Longman Higher Education, 1991) paperback £20.99
More than 30 years since its first edition, this book still remains a standard text on the social and economic development of Anglo-Saxon England from the first settlements in the fifth and sixth centuries AD to the immediate aftermath of the Norman Conquest. It draws on surviving legal and literary sources, as well as the latest findings of archaeologists, numismatists and art historians.

The Archaeology of Anglo-Saxon England edited by Catherine E Karkoy (Garland Publishing, 1999) hardback £50
This volume offers comprehensive coverage of the archaeology of Anglo-Saxon England, bringing together essays on specific fields, sites and objects, and offering the reader a representative range of both traditional and modern methodologies and interdisciplinary approaches to the subject. Individual sections deal with settlement archaeology, the archaeology of church and monastery, death and burial and women and the material record.

The Anglo-Saxon World by Kevin Crossley-Holland (Oxford University Press, 1999) paperback £6.99

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle translated and edited by Michael Swanton (Dent, 1996) paperback £12.99
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle is the first continuous national history of any Western people in their own language. This translation is the most complete and faithful yet published, with extensive notes referring the entries to current knowledge as well as to maps and genealogical tables.

The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle translated and edited by Michael Swanton (Exeter University Press, 1999) £5.99
A basic translation without the notes, maps and tables that accompany the above.

Kings and Kingdoms of Anglo-Saxon England by Barbara Yorke (Routledge, 1990, new edition 1997) £18.99 ISBN: 041516639X £18.99
Wessex in the Early Middle Ages by Barbara Yorke (Leicester University Press, 1995) £25 ISBN: 071851856X
The Anglo-Saxons by Barbara Yorke (Sutton Publishing, 1999) £5.99 ISBN: 0750922206
Barbara Yorke's work in assembling the evidence for a Jutish kingdom in south Hampshire featured in a running debate between Time Team's Robin Bush and Anglo-Saxon cemetery expert Helen Geake during Live 2001. The first two of her books listed here cover this subject in depth, while The Anglo-Saxons reviews the main events of the period 400 to 1066 and the legacy left by the Anglo-Saxons.

Other websites

Anglo Saxon England: A guide to online resources
http://orb.rhodes.edu/encyclop/early/pre1000/ASindex.html
Part of the ORB Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies, this website has perhaps the best set of web links covering everything from original Anglo-Saxon texts to bibliographies, maps and teaching resources.

Anglo-Saxon England
www.anthro.mankato.msus.edu/vi/angsaxe.htm
Includes, among much else, a map of Anglo-Saxon Britain and a detailed bibliography.

Angelcynn Anglo-Saxon Living History 400–900 AD
www.angelcynn.org.uk
Excellent website run by the Angelcynn Anglo-Saxon re-enactment society. Contains material on the history, warfare, weapons, armour, clothing and appearance of pagan and Christian Anglo-Saxons, with details on their culture, myths and religion, information on various finds, useful links and an invaluable Anglo-Saxon glossary.

Anglo Saxon cemeteries
www.gla.ac.uk/Acad/Archaeology/staff/jwh/ascems.html
This website contains pointers to a series of resources relating to early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries. Jeremy Huggett, who maintains the site, carried out PhD research involving an analysis of social aspects of burial. As part of this work an early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries database was assembled, consisting primarily of cemeteries from central and central southern England. The database is available on the site, together with a distribution map of the major cemeteries included and discussions on various aspects of early Anglo-Saxon burials. This, for example, introduces Huggett’s discussion on sexing and ageing burials:

‘Burials have been traditionally sexed on the basis of associated grave goods – brooches and beads with females, weapons with males. The fact that it can be demonstrated that males may also be accompanied by brooches and beads has not detracted from this method. The sex and age of a skeleton is important in social terms as primary burial attributes, and consequently it is necessary to know how the assignments were achieved in order to avoid problems of circularity (brooches are found with females, burial A is accompanied by brooch B, burial A is therefore female, brooch B is associated with a female burial, brooches are associated with female burials). Skeletal attributes may be used to age and sex skeletal evidence independently of any associated artefacts, but it has been found that there may be differences in the attribution of sex according to skeletal methods and by associated grave goods.’

Sutton Hoo Society
www.suttonhoo.org/
As the other location from which a Byzantine 'bucket' has been found, Time Teamsters might like to know that they can find reference to the Sutton Hoo example (the 'Bromeswell Bucket') in the journal Antiquity (No 63, 1989 pp 295-311). A photograph of the (much-damaged) bucket is included in Saxon No 32, the Sutton Hoo Society's newsletter; Saxon No 33 includes an account of the second Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Sutton Hoo, uncovered last summer. To obtain copies (£1 each plus postage) e-mail publications@suttonhoo.org.

Further details about visiting the Sutton Hoo burial site are available on the society's website, which offers an online interactive tour of the site. The site is open for guided tours by the Sutton Hoo Society on Saturday and Sunday afternoons until the end of September 2001. Entrance is £2 for adults, £1 for under 18s and children 10 and under free. Details of how to join the Society are also on the website. The lavish grave goods found at Sutton Hoo, England's premier Anglo-Saxon burial site, are on display at the British Museum.

Current Archaeology: Taplow Saxon burial
www.archaeology.co.uk/issues/ca175/taplow/taplow.htm
Taplow is one of the magical names in Anglo-Saxon archaeology. Here in 1883 a great treasure was discovered: within the churchyard at Taplow lay a great mound and when this was opened, a magnificent Anglo-Saxon burial was uncovered at the centre. It was the most spectacular Saxon burial hitherto known in Britain, and remained so until the discovery of Sutton Hoo in 1939. This edited version of an article in the September 2001 issue of Current Archaeology looks at the background to this Anglo Saxon burial place – presumably the 'low' (barrow) of Tappa? The Current Archaeology website (www.archaeology.co.uk) also has information on the Sutton Hoo burial as well as acting as a gateway to the world of British archaeology.

Regia Anglorum
www.regia.org/
Anglo-Saxon, Viking and Norman reconstruction society, used by Time Team on the Live 2001.

Other resources

West Stow Anglo Saxon Village
Icklingham Road, West Stow, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk IP28 6HG
Tel: 01284 728718
Website: www.stedmunds.co.uk/west_stow.html
Open to visitors daily.

The West Stow site was discovered by Basil Brown, the indefatigable field archaeologist of the 1930s to 1960s, by fragments of pottery thrown up by rabbits on the heath. It became clear that the site, a low knoll of some five acres in extent, was covered with prehistoric, Roman and Anglo-Saxon pottery. The threatened destruction of the area prompted the Ministry of Works to fund an excavation, which took place between 1965 and 1972. In the event, the whole site was stripped and excavated, so that for the first time in England we had an entire Anglo-Saxon village to study.

At the close of the excavation the establishment of the West Stow Anglo-Saxon Village Trust by the then Borough Council of Bury St Edmunds enabled the study of the Anglo-Saxons to be developed in an exciting and unique way by the reconstruction of a number of buildings on their original sites. Much of the work is experimental and achieved by translating the interpretation of what was found into practical reconstructions, using the tools and methods believed to have been available to the Anglo-Saxons. Although the site is primarily concerned with experimental archaeology, it offers visitors an evocative sense of the past in a way that cannot be captured by text-books.

Anglo Saxon Books
Frithgarth, Thetford Forest Park, Hockwold-cum-Wilton, Norfolk IP26 4NQ
Tel: 01842 828430
An independent publisher with a wide list of books ranging in subject from riddles, runes, food and drink to magic, legends, warfare, martial arts and leechcraft.

Angelcynn Anglo-Saxon Living History 400–900 AD
Ben Levick, 2 Prospect Row, Old Brompton, Gillingham, Kent ME7 5AL
Tel: 01634 845558
www.angelcynn.org.uk
Leading Anglo-Saxon re-enactment society.