Life and economy at early medieval Flixborough, c. AD 600-1000 : : the artefact evidence / / edited by D.H. Evans and Christopher Loveluck ; with contributions by Marion M. Archibald [and thirty-five others].

• Superior document: Excavations at Flixborough ; v.2
• TeilnehmendeR: Evans, D. H.,; Loveluck, Christopher,; Archibald, Marion,
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford ;, Oakville : : Oxbow Books,, [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Excavations at Flixborough
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1934 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Between 1989 and 1991, excavations in the parish of Flixborough, North Lincolnshire, unearthed remains of an Anglo-Saxon settlement associated with one of the largest collections of artefacts and animal bones yet found on such a site. In an unprecedented occupation sequence from an Anglo-Saxon rural settlement, six main periods of occupation have been identified, dating from the seventh to the early eleventh centuries; with a further period of activity, between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries AD. The remains of approximately forty buildings and other structures were uncovered; and due to t

Table of Contents

Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; List of Figures; List of Plates; List of Contributors to the Flixborough Volumes; Summary; Zusammenfassung; Résumé; Acknowledgements; Preface and Introduction; Chapter 1: Dress and Personal Items; 1.1 Brooches; 1.2 Strap-ends; 1.3 The hooked tags; 1.4 Buckles:; Non-ferrous buckles and other belt fittings; Iron buckles and belt fittings; 1.5 Jewellery; 1.6 Toilet implements; 1.7 Medical items; 1.8 The pins; 1.9 Tool-marks and finishing details on non-ferrous, surface-coated and inlaid objects, including dress items; 1.10 Combs

Chapter 2: Consumption of Luxuries : The Glas and Copper Alloy Vesels2.1 Glass vessels; 2.2 Analysis of chemical compositions of the glass; 2.3 Copper alloy vessels and container mounts; Chapter 3: Artefacts Relating to Specialist Activities; 3.1 Horse equipment; 3.2 Weapons and armour; 3.3 Writing and literacy-related items:; The styli; A decorated silver plaque, possibly from a book cover; The inscribed objects; 3.4 Possible liturgical objects: Iron bells and bell clappers; Chapter 4: Building Materials and Fittings; 4.1 Structural ironwork and fittings; 4.2 Structural fired clay or daub

4.3 Window glass and lead cames4.4 Other building materials; Chapter 5: Domestic Fittings and Implements; 5.1 Iron domestic fixtures, fittings and implements; 5.2 Iron locks and keys; 5.3 Copper alloy keys; 5.4 Miscellaneous copper-alloy fixtures and fittings; 5.5 Miscellaneous lead and lead alloy objects; 5.6 Miscellaneous iron fixtures and fittings:; Knives; Appendix 1. Metallographic examination of knife blades; 5.7 Bone and antler implements and utensils; 5.8 Hones and sharpening stones; A note on the geology of the hones; 5.9 Stone lamps; 5.10 A possible carved chalk vessel

Chapter 6: Cultivation, Crop Processing and Food Procurement6.1 Agricultural tools; 6.2 Querns; A note on the geology of the sandstone querns; A note on the lava querns from Flixborough; 6.3 Evidence for fishing and netting birds; Iron fish hooks; Chapter 7: Woodworking, the tool hoard and its lead containers; 7.1 Woodworking tools; 7.2 The Flixborough tool hoard; 7.3 The lead vessels housing the Flixborough tool hoard; Chapter 8: Leatherworking; 8.1 Leatherworking tools; Chapter 9: Textile Production; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 Fibre processing; 9.3 Spinning

A note on the geology of the stone spindle whorls9.4 Weaving; 9.5 Cutting and stitching; Shears; Needles; Rubbing stones; 9.6 Summary Selective catalogue; Chapter 10: Ironworking; 10.1 Artefacts and objects relating to ironworking; 10.2 Ironworking debris and manufacturing processes; Visual examination of the slags and metalworking debris; Distribution of metalworking debris by period within the occupation sequence; Physico-chemical analysis of debris; Chapter 11: Non-Ferrous Metalworking; 11.1 The crucible and mould fragments; 11.2 Other fired clay objects

11.3 Surface analysis of crucible and mould fragments