Отправлено: 10.01.05 18:25. Заголовок: Early Medieval Europe 13(1)2005: Catholme

Andrew Reynolds. On farmers, traders and kings: archaeological reflections of social complexity in early medieval north-western Europe // EME, 2005, 13, 1, 97-118.

Catholme is an important if, until now, neglected site that bridges the divide between the well-known settlement archaeology of early Anglo-Saxon England and the relatively clear view that we have of the appearance and function of the medieval countryside: comparable sites are few, but not unknown. The period of occupation revealed by extensive C14 dating makes it a key excavation for our understanding of early seventh- to later ninth- or tenth-century rural settlement in England, that poorly understood yet crucial period out of which the medieval and modern landscape emerged. The settlement lay on the Trent gravels in Staffordshire on the northern edge of what later became known as the ‘Champion’ agricultural region of medieval England. The pattern of medieval and later settlements in the immediate vicinity indicates dense and potentially mobile settlement, a topic to which we shall return below.

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