[Ansteorra] British "Medieval Archaeology" publications now online

Zubeydah Jamilla al-Badawiyya zubeydah at northkeep.org
Mon Dec 10 09:40:20 PST 2007


I got this info from another list, and thought others might find this 
helpful:

The British Archeology Data Service has just posted 50 years of their 
"Medieval Archeology" publication online on their website.  There's about 15 
articles per issue.  The website address is:  http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/

I grabbed some article titles from a random sampling of issues to give folks 
an idea of what's there, and found topics such as:

- Notes on Jutish art in Kent between 450 and 575
- A medieval pottery inkstand from Byland Abbey
- Forum Ware. A distinctive type of early medieval glazed pottery in the 
Roman Campagna
- Two 10th-century bronze objects
- A decorated axe-head of Viking type from Coventry
- An Anglo-Saxon ornamental silver strip from the Cuerdale hoard
- A fragmentary bronze strap-end of the Viking period from the Udal, North 
Uist, Inverness-shire
- A study of cross-hatched gold foils in Anglo-Saxon jewellery
- Early Islamic pottery from Flaxengate, Lincoln
- Hierarchism in conventual crenellation: an essay in the sociology and 
metaphysics of medieval fortification
- A neglected Viking burial with beads from Kilmainham, Dublin, discovered 
in 1847
- Some examples of medieval domestic pewter flatware
- A reappraisal of Dinas Powys: local exchange and specialized livestock in 
5th- to 7th-century Wales
- Gallici Nautae de Galliarum Provinciis' - a sixth/seventh century trade 
with Gaul, reconsidered
- A drawing of a Medieval Ivory chess piece from the 12th-century church of 
St Olav, Trondheim, Norway
- Continuity and discontinuity in the landscape: Roman to medieval in Sutton 
Chase
- Anglo-Saxon double-tongued buckles
- The origin of the word 'keep'
- A new artefact typology for the study of Medieval arrowheads
- A medieval depiction of infant-feeding in Winchester Cathedral
- A viking-age harness-bow fragment from Cliffe, N. Yorkshire
- An early date for Ogham: the Silchester ogham stone rehabilitated
- Odda's Chapel, Deerhurst: place of worship or royal hall?
- An Anglo-Saxon inscribed fossil echinoid from Exerter Street, London? An 
alternative interpretation
- An Iona of the East: The Early-medieval Monastery at Portmahomack, Tarbat 
Ness
- Sweetness and Light: Chemical Evidence of Beeswax and Tallow Candles at 
Fountains Abbey, North Yorkshire
- Symbols of Protection: The Significance of Animal-ornamented Shields in 
Early Anglo-Saxon England
- Recent Palaeoenvironmental Evidence for the Processing of Hemp (Cannabis 
Sativa L.) in Eastern England During the Medieval Period
- Reflections on a '9th-century' Northumbrian Metalworking Tradition: A 
Silver Hoard from Poppleton, North Yorkshire

Like I said, these are just a (fraction* of the articles posted.

Enjoy!!

- Zubeydah Jamilla al-Badawiyyah





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