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This volume of papers is offered to Martin Welch on the occasion of his retirement from UCL in 2010. It is a celebration of his long career of teaching and research in early medieval archaeology, particularly Anglo-Saxon England and its neighbours in the fifth to seventh centuries.

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Author:   Stuart Brookes ,  Sue Harrington ,  Andrew Reynolds
Publisher:   BAR Publishing
Imprint:   BAR Publishing
Volume:   527
Weight:   0.738kg
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9781407307510

ISBN 10:   1407307517
Pages:   185
Publication Date:   10 February 2011
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Table of Contents

An appreciation (Andrew Reynolds and Sue Hamilton); 1) An unusual new gold A-bracteate find from Scalford, Leicestershire (Charlotte Behr); 2) Continuity in Cambridge? Pot-stamp evidence for continuity from the fourth to fifth centuries AD (Diana Briscoe); 3) Work-boxes or reliquaries? Small copper-alloy containers in seventh century Anglo-Saxon graves (Catherine Hills); 4) Earlier or later? The rectangular cloisonné buckle from Sutton Hoo Mound 1 in context (Noël Adams); 5) Accidental losses, plough-damaged cemeteries and the occasional hoard: the Portable Antiquities Scheme and early Anglo-Saxon archaeology (Helen Geake); 6) Anglo-Saxon non-funerary weapon depositions (Andrew Reynolds and Sarah Semple); 7) A fifth-century female from Weston Colley, Micheldever, Hampshire (Nick Stoodley); 8) Ringlemere in reference to early cross-Channel relations (Sonja Marzinzik); 9) Between Frankish and Merovingian influences in Early Anglo-Saxon Sussex (fifth-seventh centuries) (Jean Soulat); 10) The Third Way: thoughts on non-Saxon identity south of the Thames 450-600 (Andrew Richardson); 11) Foreign identities in burials at seventh-century English 'emporia' (Christopher Scull); 12) Beyond exogamy: marriage strategies in Early Anglo-Saxon England (Sue Harrington); 13) Gender representation in early medieval burials: ritual re-affirmation of a blurred boundary? (Heinrich Härke); 14) 'The Weight of Necklaces': some insights into the wearing of women's jewellery from Middle Saxon written sources (Barbara Yorke); 15) Anglo-Saxon cemeteries in the Tees Valley and associations with Neolithic and later monuments (Stephen J. Sherlock); 16) Early to Middle Saxon settlement in the Chelmer-Blackwater river valley, Essex (Sue A. Tyler); 17) Early Anglo-Saxon fish traps on the River Thames (Nathalie Cohen); 18) Boundaries of Anglo-Saxon kingdoms: the example of the South Saxons (Mark Gardiner); 19) A reconsideration of East Wansdyke: its construction and date - a preliminary note (Bruce Eagles and Michael J. Allen); 20) The lathes of Kent: a review of the evidence (Stuart Brookes); Bibliography (Sue Harrington).

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