Transforming Townscapes: From Burh to Borough: the Archaeology of Wallingford, AD 800-1400 (The Society for Medieval Archaeology Monographs)

by Neil Christie, Oliver Creighton, Matt Edgeworth, and Helena Hamerow

Christopher Gerrard, Marion Archibald, Robert Carr, Jayne Carroll, Paul Courtney, Judy Dewey, Brian Durham, Christopher Dyer, Michael Fradley, Matthew Godfrey, Ian Goodall, Jillian Greenaway, Jeremy Haslam, Matilda Holmes, Andy Hyam, Katharine Keats-Rohan, Ian Leins, Arthur MacGregor, Maureen Mellor, Stephen Mileson, Angela Monckton, Graham Morgan, Mathew Morris, John Naylor, Richard Neale, Richard Oram, David Pedgley, Anita Radini, Vicki Reed, Iain Soden, Gavin Speed, Jeremy Taylor, Gabor Thomas, Matthew Tompkins, Catherine Underwood Keevill, Susan Westlake, Ian Whitbread, Gareth Williams, Thomas Williams, and Margaret Yates

Transforming Townscapes details the results of a major archaeological project based on and around the historic town of Wallingford in south Oxfordshire. Founded in the late Saxon period as a key defensive and administrative focus next to the Thames, the settlement also contained a substantial royal castle established shortly after the Norman Conquest. The volume traces the pre-town archaeology of Wallingford and then analyses the town’s physical and social evolution, assessing defences, churches, housing, markets, material culture, coinage, communications and hinterland.

• ISBN10: 1909662097
• ISBN13: 9781909662094
• Publish Date: 4 October 2013
• Publish Status: Active
• Publish Country: GB
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Imprint: Legenda
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 508
• Language: English