Pestell Tim - Markets in early medieval Europe: trading and productive sites, 650-850

Introduction : early medieval markets and productive sites / Katharina Ulmschneider and Tim Pestell -- Production and distribution in early and middle Anglo-Saxon England / James Campbell -- Productive sites and the pattern of coin loss in England, 600-1180 / Mark Blackburn -- Variations in the composition of the currency at different places in England / Michael Metcalf -- The Hinterlands of three southern English Emporia : some common themes / Ben Palmer -- Markets and productive sites : a view from western Britain / David Griffiths -- Markets around the Solent : unravelling a productive site on the Isle of Wight / Katharina Ulmschneider -- The early Anglo-Saxon framework for middle Anglo-Saxon economics : the case of East Kent / Stuart Brookes -- Exceptional finds, exceptional sites? Barham and Coddenham, Suffolk / John Newman -- Six middle Anglo-Saxon sites in West Norfolk / Andrew Rogerson -- The afterlife of productive sites in East Anglia / Tim Pestell -- Middle Anglo-Saxon Lincolnshire : an emerging picture / Kevin Leahy -- The Anglian and Anglo-Scandinavian sites at Cottam, East Yorkshire / Julian D. Richards -- Markets and fairs in Norway and Sweden between the eighth and sixteenth centuries / Peter Sawyer -- Manor and market at Lake Tiss in the sixth to eleventh centuries : the Danish productive sites / Lars Jrgensen -- Gro Strmkendorf : a market site of the eighth century on the Baltic Sea Cost / Astrid Tummuscheit -- Tjitsma, Wijnaldum: an early medieval production site in the Netherlands / Caroline Tulp -- The fate of the ports of the Lower Seine Valley at the end of the ninth century / Jacques Le Maho -- San Vincenzo in the making : the discovery of an early Medieval production site on the east bank of the Volturno / Matthew Moran.;Major sites such as Hamwic and Dorestad typically dominate any discussion of early medieval trade and emporia - this study is altogether atypical in many ways. Comprising nineteen papers taken from a conference held at Worcester College, Oxford in 2000, the focus here is very much on the smaller, more rural trading centres and inland markets of Northern Europe. The contributors reflect very different approaches to the material, including studies that examine up-to-date historical, archaeological and numismatic evidence from Britain, Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden dating from the 7th to 9th century. The authors consider the rather controversial use of metal-detecting in identifying and defining new sites and patterns of interaction and exchange, highlighting its positive contribution. Contributors include Mark Blackburn, David Griffiths, Lars Jorgensen, Michael Metcalf, Julian D Richards, Peter Sawyer and Astrid Tummuscheit.