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Table of Contents

• Summary
• Table of Contents
• List of Figures

Section 1: Introduction

• 1.1 Project summary
• 1.2 Background: the history of portable antiquities research
• 1.3 Structure and outline

Section 2: The Nature of Portable Antiquities

• 2.1 Introduction to the data sources
  • 2.1.1 The Portable Antiquities Scheme
  • 2.1.2 The Early Medieval Corpus
• 2.2 Data harvesting
  • 2.2.1 The Portable Antiquities Scheme
  • 2.2.2 The Early Medieval Corpus
• 2.3 Base maps
• 2.4 Portable antiquities: recovery vs reality
  • 2.4.1 National distributions and quantitative analysis
  • 2.4.2 Regional distributions and quantitative analysis
    • 2.4.2.1 Northern England
    • 2.4.2.2 West Central England
    • 2.4.2.3 East Central England
    • 2.4.2.4 East Anglia
    • 2.4.2.5 South-east England
    • 2.4.2.6 South-west England
    • 2.4.2.7 Wales
• 2.5 Period-specific control sets: portable antiquities: Iron Age to Late Medieval (c. 800 BC-AD 1500)
  • 2.5.1 Portable antiquities from the Iron Age to the Late Medieval
  • 2.5.2 Case studies
    • 2.5.2.1 The fenland of Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire and Norfolk
    • 2.5.2.2 The Weald of south-east England
    • 2.5.2.3 The Solent region
• 2.6 The nature of portable antiquities: a framework for interpretation
  • 2.6.1 The evolution of the Portable Antiquities Scheme
  • 2.6.2 Modern constraints on data recovery
  • 2.6.3 The historic landscape and society

Section 3: Settlement Patterns and Material Culture in 8th-11th century England

• 3.1 Data preparation: cleaning, enhancement and dataset comparison
  • 3.1.1 Data cleaning and enhancement
  • 3.1.2 Data comparability
  • 3.1.3 EMC vs PAS: national comparison
• 3.2 The nature of the VASLE 'National dataset'
  • 3.2.1 The artefact 'fingerprint'
  • 3.2.2 The coinage 'fingerprint'
• 3.3 Metalwork, coinage and the interpretation of 8th-11th century settlement
  • 3.3.1 Northern England
    • 3.3.1.1 Early medieval settlement: archaeological and historical background
    • 3.3.1.2 Patterns of early medieval portable antiquities
  • 3.3.2 West Central England
    • 3.3.2.1 Early medieval settlement: archaeological and historical background
    • 3.3.2.2 Patterns of early medieval portable antiquities
  • 3.3.3 East Central England
    • 3.3.3.1 Early medieval settlement: archaeological and historical background
    • 3.3.3.2 Patterns of early medieval portable antiquities
  • 3.3.4 East Anglia
    • 3.3.4.1 Early medieval settlement: archaeological and historical background
    • 3.3.4.2 Patterns of early medieval portable antiquities
  • 3.3.5 South-east England
    • 3.3.5.1 Early medieval settlement: archaeological and historical background
    • 3.3.5.2 Patterns of early medieval portable antiquities
  • 3.3.6 South-west England
    • 3.3.6.1 Early medieval settlement: archaeological and historical background
    • 3.3.6.2 Patterns of early medieval portable antiquities
• 3.4 Material culture on a national scale
  • 3.4.1 The distribution of coin finds
  • 3.4.2 Artefact distribution case study: equestrian equipment by Hanne Sheeran

Section 4: Interpreting 'Productive Sites'

• 4.1 Introduction to 'productive sites' research
  • 4.1.1 Defining 'productive sites'
  • 4.1.2 'Productive sites' research
  • 4.1.3 The distribution of 'productive sites'
• 4.2 Data preparation
  • 4.2.1 Portable Antiquities Scheme records
    • 4.2.1.1 Dating of PAS records
    • 4.2.1.2 Defining sites from PAS data
  • 4.2.2 Filtering of EMC data
    • 4.2.2.1 Dating of EMC records
    • 4.2.2.2 Defining sites from EMC data
  • 4.2.3 Historic Environment Records
  • 4.2.4 Norfolk HER
    • 4.2.4.1 Dating of Norfolk HER records
    • 4.2.4.2 Defining sites from Norfolk HER records
  • 4.2.5 Suffolk HER
  • 4.2.6 Other sources
• 4.3 The archaeology of 'productive sites'
  • 4.3.1 Introduction to analyses
  • 4.3.2 Artefact dating analysis
  • 4.3.3 Artefact type analysis
  • 4.3.4 Metals analysis
  • 4.3.5 Coin dating analysis
• 4.4 Site-based analysis
  • 4.4.1 Bamburgh Castle
  • 4.4.2 Barham
  • 4.4.3 Barton Bendish
  • 4.4.4 Bawsey
  • 4.4.5 Bedford
  • 4.4.6 Beverley
  • 4.4.7 Burgh Castle
  • 4.4.8 Burnham
  • 4.4.9 Burrow Hill
  • 4.4.10 Burton Fleming
  • 4.4.11 Caistor St Edmund
  • 4.4.12 Canterbury Marlowe
  • 4.4.13 Cliffe
  • 4.4.14 Coddenham
  • 4.4.15 Colkirk
  • 4.4.16 Congham
  • 4.4.17 Cottam A
  • 4.4.18 Cottam B
  • 4.4.19 Cowlam
  • 4.4.20 East Rudham
  • 4.4.21 East Walton
  • 4.4.22 Elsham
  • 4.4.23 Firle
  • 4.4.24 Flixborough
  • 4.4.25 Freckenham
  • 4.4.26 Hartlepool
  • 4.4.27 Hindringham
  • 4.4.28 Hollingbourne
  • 4.4.29 Ixworth
  • 4.4.30 Kilham
  • 4.4.31 Lackford
  • 4.4.32 Little Wilbraham
  • 4.4.33 London, St Peters Hill
  • 4.4.34 Melton Ross
  • 4.4.35 Meols
  • 4.4.36 Middle Harling
  • 4.4.37 Narborough
  • 4.4.38 Nettleton
  • 4.4.39 Nr Malton 1
  • 4.4.40 Nr Malton 2
  • 4.4.41 Nr Royston
  • 4.4.42 Osbournby
  • 4.4.43 Oxborough
  • 4.4.44 Quidenham
  • 4.4.45 Reculver
  • 4.4.46 Richborough
  • 4.4.47 Rocklands
  • 4.4.48 London – Royal Opera House
  • 4.4.49 Ryther
  • 4.4.50 Sandtun
  • 4.4.51 Seething
  • 4.4.52 Shalfleet
  • 4.4.53 Southampton – Hamwic
  • 4.4.54 South Lincs
  • 4.4.55 South Newbald
  • 4.4.56 Swinhope
  • 4.4.57 Thwing
  • 4.4.58 Tibenham
  • 4.4.59 Tilbury
  • 4.4.60 Torksey
  • 4.4.61 West Rudham
  • 4.4.62 West Walton
  • 4.4.63 Wharram Percy
  • 4.4.64 Whissonsett
  • 4.4.65 Whitby Abbey
  • 4.4.66 Whithorn
  • 4.4.67 Wormegay
  • 4.4.68 York – Coppergate
  • 4.4.69 York – Fishergate
• 4.5 The 'productive sites' phenomenon

Section 5: The Contribution of Portable Antiquities to an understanding of Landscape and Economy in Anglo-Saxon and Viking Age England

• 5.1 The archaeology of Middle Saxon trade
• 5.2 The Anglo-Saxon and Viking landscape
• 5.3 Summary and conclusion

• Interactive mapping
• Acknowledgements
• Bibliography
• Related digital archive

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