Medieval Settlement Research No. 38, 2023

The journal of the Medieval Settlement Research Group (MSRG), a long-established, widely recognised and open multi-disciplinary research group that facilitates collaboration between archaeologists, geographers, historians and other interested parties.

Medieval Settlement Research is the journal of the Medieval Settlement Research Group (MSRG), a long-established, widely recognised and open multi-disciplinary research group that facilitates collaboration between archaeologists, geographers, historians and other interested parties. The Group is dedicated to developing understanding of rural settlements and their associated landscapes between the 5th and 16th centuries AD. To achieve these aims, the MSRG organises Spring and Winter Seminars each year, offers research and travel grants, awards the annual John Hurst Memorial Prize for the best postgraduate paper, and publishes an annual journal, Medieval Settlement Research. The journal is an internationally recognised publication containing research papers, scholarly articles, fieldwork reports, news and reviews. Although the MSRG’s interests are concentrated primarily on British and Irish medieval landscapes between the 5th and 16th centuries AD, it actively encourages wider chronological and pan-European perspectives. Medieval Settlement Research therefore welcomes papers relating to Britain, Ireland and the rest of Europe that help us to improve our understanding of medieval settlements and landscapes from the level of individual sites to the international scale.

Announcements

Articles

Horndon-on-the-Hill, Essex: a morphological analysis of the Late Saxon and medieval settlement – Daniel Secker

John Hurst Memorial Prize essay

Christian Colonisation of the Urban Space of Sagunt, Valencian Country (1238–1350) – Alexandre Mateu

Reports

The Material Experiences of ‘Peasant’ Life in Medieval Britain and Ireland (c. 1200–1500) – Ben Jervis and Karen Dempsey

New Discoveries at Yeavering, Northumberland – Roger Miket, Sarah Semple, Tudor Skinner and Brian Buchanan

Preliminary report of palaeoenvironmental investigations at Under Whitle, Sheen, Staffordshire – Ian Parker Heath and Tudur Davies

Test pit excavation within currently occupied rural settlements in the Czech Republic, Netherlands, Poland and United Kingdom – Results of the CARE project in 2022/23 – Carenza Lewis, Pavel Vařeka, Heleen van Londen, Johan Verspay, Arkadiusz Marciniak, Kornelia Kajda and Dawid Kobiałka

Book Reviews Edited by Neil Christie

Juan Antonio Quirós Castillo (ed.), Archaeology and History of Peasantries 2. Themes, Approaches and Debates. (Documentos de Arqueología Medieval, 16). (Susan Kilby)

Stephen Mileson and Stuart Brookes, Peasant Perceptions of Landscape. Ewelme Hundred, South Oxfordshire, 500–1650. (David Stone)

Christopher Dyer, Peasants Making History. Living in an English Region 1200–1540. (Paul Stamper)

Tomás Ó Carragáin, Churches in the Irish Landscape AD 400–1100. (Thomas Pickles)

Johanna Dale (ed.), St Peter-on-the-Wall: Landscape and Heritage on the Essex Coast. (Neil Christie)

Simon Keith, Surveying the Domesday Book. (Helen Fenwick)

Naomi Field, A Vanishing Landscape. Archaeological Investigations at Blakeney Eye, Norfolk. (Gareth Davies)

Edward Martin, Great Bricett Manor and Priory. Lords, Saints and Canons in a Suffolk Landscape. (Neil Christie)

Nicholas Palmer and Jonathan Parkhouse, Burton Dassett Southend, Warwickshire. A Medieval Market Village. (The Society for Medieval Archaeology Monograph 44). (Andrew Rogerson)

Simon Townley (ed.), The Victoria History of the County of Oxford: Volume XX. The South Oxfordshire Chilterns: Cavesham, Goring and Area. (Katharine Keats Rohan)

Robert Arkell, A History of Rowley-Wittenham. Deserted Medieval Village and Lost Parish. (Bradford-on-Avon Museum Monographs No 6). (Andrew Rogerson)

MSRG Bibliography 2019–2021 Compiled by Christopher Dyer

Membership Changes 2022

Annual Report of the Trustees for 2023

MSRG Financial Statement

• Edited by Mark McKerracher