Producers, Traders and Consumers in Urban Societies in Southern Britain and Europe

Papers honor Mark’s research on urbanization and trade in Britain and Europe, and his contributions to museums and museology. In two sections, the first provides up-to-date reviews of Hamwic (Saxon Southampton) and the second offers post-excavation studies in Britain and Europe and also includes developments in the Museum and Heritage sectors.

Producers, Traders and Consumers in Urban Societies in Southern Britain and Europe celebrates Professor Mark Brisbane’s contribution to archaeological studies of the Roman, Saxon, Medieval and later historic periods. The chapters from his colleagues, collaborators and students reflect Mark’s research interests in the development of urbanisation and trade patterns in Britain and Europe, while also acknowledging his work in museums and in the field of museology. Drawing upon new evidence and using innovative archaeological methodologies and ideas, the contributors help us to appreciate the half century of advances that have been made in historic towns such as Southampton, Winchester, Bath, Antwerp, Novgorod and Kyiv. The book is divided into two sections; the first provides up-to-date reviews of Hamwic (Saxon Southampton) while subsequent chapters incorporate a range of post-excavation studies in Britain and Europe and also includes developments in the Museum and Heritage sectors. Contributors include Richard Hodges, David Hinton, Catherine Hills, Sam Lucy, Clive Orton, Pam Crabtree, Ben Jervis and David Gaimster.

Editors Preface - Mark Maltby and Deborah Hodges Introduction - Katherine Barclay Chapter 1. Hamwic Deconstructed: Imported Pottery and Issues of Middle Saxon Urban Discontinuity - Richard Hodges Chapter 2. Boundaries and Burials: Investigating the Extent of Hamwic and the Development and Phasing of its Cemeteries - Matt Garner Chapter 3. Phasing Hamwic - Ian Riddler and Nicola Trzaska-Nartowski Chapter 4. Hamwic: Two Decades after the Stadium - Phil Andrews Chapter 5. 'Hamwic Drives You Mad': The Hamwic Galleries - Duncan H. Brown Chapter 6. Personal Objects and Personal Stories: Some Medieval Finds from Southampton - Ben Jervis Chapter 7. Neighbourly Differences: Post-Roman Dorset and Hampshire Compared - David A. Hinton Chapter 8. Winchester's Saxon Defences: The North-west Corner - Kenneth Qualmann Chapter 9. Beer, Butter or Identity in Death? - Catherine Hills and Sam Lucy Chapter 10. Recent Zooarchaeological Studies on early Medieval Sites in Bedfordshire - Mark Maltby Chapter 11. Feeding Medieval Antwerp: Evidence from the Burcht and Gorterstraat Sites, Antwerp, Belgium - Pam J. Crabtree Chapter 12. From Winchester to Novgorod and Places Beyond and Between - Mick Monk and Penny Johnston Chapter 13. The Novgorod Years - Clive Orton Chapter 14. Crafts serving a City or a City serving Crafts? Analysis of Production in Princely Kyiv (10th-13th centuries) - Sergiy Taranenko Chapter 15. The Building Roman Britain Project: From HEIF to PhD - Owen Kearn and Stephen Clews Chapter 16. The Salt 'Ships' of Nantwich, Cheshire 12th-17th Centuries - Andrew Fielding Chapter 17. Evolution of the Verwood-Type Pottery Kiln: a More Traditional Industrial Revolution - Dan Carter Chapter 18. Two Mid Nineteenth-Century Military Dioramas of Actions in the Northern War of New Zealand (1845-46): Histories and Comparative Material Study - David Gaimster Chapter 19. The Pink Monster: Extracts from Research Commissioned by the Museums and Galleries Commission - Yvette Staelens Bibliography,

Editors Preface – Mark Maltby and Deborah Hodges       

Introduction – Katherine Barclay

Chapter 1. Hamwic Deconstructed: Imported Pottery and Issues of Middle Saxon Urban Discontinuity – Richard Hodges

Chapter 2. Boundaries and Burials: Investigating the Extent of Hamwic and the Development and Phasing of its Cemeteries – Matt Garner

Chapter 3. Phasing Hamwic – Ian Riddler and Nicola Trzaska-Nartowski

Chapter 4. Hamwic: Two Decades after the Stadium – Phil Andrews

Chapter 5. ‘Hamwic Drives You Mad’: The Hamwic Galleries – Duncan H. Brown

Chapter 6. Personal Objects and Personal Stories: Some Medieval Finds from Southampton – Ben Jervis

Chapter 7. Neighbourly Differences: Post-Roman Dorset and Hampshire Compared – David A. Hinton

Chapter 8. Winchester’s Saxon Defences: The North-west Corner – Kenneth Qualmann

Chapter 9. Beer, Butter or Identity in Death? – Catherine Hills and Sam Lucy

Chapter 10. Recent Zooarchaeological Studies on early Medieval Sites in Bedfordshire – Mark Maltby

Chapter 11. Feeding Medieval Antwerp: Evidence from the Burcht and Gorterstraat Sites, Antwerp, Belgium – Pam J. Crabtree

Chapter 12. From Winchester to Novgorod and Places Beyond and Between – Mick Monk and Penny Johnston

Chapter 13. The Novgorod Years – Clive Orton

Chapter 14. Crafts serving a City or a City serving Crafts? Analysis of Production in Princely Kyiv (10th-13th centuries) – Sergiy Taranenko  

Chapter 15. The Building Roman Britain Project: From HEIF to PhD – Owen Kearn and Stephen Clews

Chapter 16. The Salt ‘Ships’ of Nantwich, Cheshire 12th-17th Centuries – Andrew Fielding

Chapter 17. Evolution of the Verwood-Type Pottery Kiln: a More Traditional Industrial Revolution – Dan Carter

Chapter 18. Two Mid Nineteenth-Century Military Dioramas of Actions in the Northern War of New Zealand (1845-46): Histories and Comparative Material Study – David Gaimster

Chapter 19. The Pink Monster: Extracts from Research Commissioned by the Museums and Galleries Commission – Yvette Staelens

Bibliography

Mark Maltby is a widely published zooarchaeologist. He is a Professor of Archaeology at Bournemouth University, where he has been a colleague of Mark Brisbane since 1990. They share common interests in the study of the development of European medieval towns. They co-authored the monograph Animals and Archaeology in Northern Medieval Russia: Zooarchaeological Studies in Novgorod and its Region (2020). Deborah Hodges first met Mark Brisbane when they were undergraduates in Archaeology at the University of Southampton. She has worked on archaeological projects in the UK and Italy, notably the early Medieval monastic complex at San Vincenxo al Volturno in Molise, Italy. Her museum career spanned a curatorial post in the Keats-Shelley House in Rome, Italy and later at Bath Preservation Trust Museums.

• Edited by Mark Maltby
• Edited by Deborah Hodges

'Overall, this book provides several good starting points for a broad range of European archaeological and museum studies.' – Ann Thom (2025): Current Archaeology Issue 426

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