From Farm to Vikingage Trading Centre
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The discovery of early medieval artefacts by metal detectorists at Glyn, Llanbedrgoch, Anglesey from the late 1980s led to a longterm programme of archaeological investigations by the National Museum of Wales (now Amgueddfa Cymru). Excavation revealed rich evidence for human activity from the Mesolithic period to the present, but its international recognition as a transformative site has been based on the remarkable early medieval evidence covering the 5th to 6thcentury transition up to the 11th century.
The early medieval enclosed settlement has produced the richest archaeological record in preNorman Wales for this period of political and cultural transformation. The site provides a unique sequence of development from small farm and entrepôt to a developing regional centre from the 7th century. By the 10th century, Llanbedrgoch had become an important commercial centre for the kingdom of Gwynedd, while possibly functioning in the manner of an estate centre with protourban potential. The excavated evidence shows an influx of material culture that is mixed, vibrant and in tune with the data from other sites around the Irish Sea and the Continent.
This publication integrates all the archaeological evidence discovered, including the first house plans from Vikingage Wales and details of objects made, cherished, consumed, destroyed and repaired. Eight early medieval burials provide data on personal appearance, health, diet and origins (including slavery), and four have facial reconstructions. New artefacts classifications and interpretations are provided, and corpora on dress accessories, hacksilver, household equipment and quernstones found in early medieval Wales presented. The social, economic and political contexts are discussed.
Mark Redknap was appointed Curator of Medieval and Later Archaeology at the National Museum of Wales (now Amgueddfa Cymru) in 1988, later becoming Head of Research in the Department of History and Archaeology until October 2023. An archaeologist and finds specialist, he has been lead curator for numerous exhibitions based at the National Museum Cardiff. His recent research focus has been on early medieval and medieval Wales and he published Llangorse Crannog with Oxbow Books in 2019. Specialisms include ceramics (AD 400–1550), medieval boats and maritime archaeology, and medieval and postmedieval artefacts.
Acknowledgements
Notes
Preface
SECTION 1. INTRODUCTION AND SETTING
1. Location, Island Context and First Discoveries
2. The Survey and Excavation Strategy (1994-2001, 2004, 2012)
SECTION 2. THE EXCAVATIONS
3. The Geophysical Survey Results by Mike Hamilton and Mark Redknap
4. The Sites and their Excavated Features
5. Site Dating and Phasing
6. Structural evidence: wood and fired clay
SECTION 3. ARCHAEOZOOLOGY AND ENVIRONMENTS
7. Pollen Analysis
8. Zoorchaeological Evidence: the Animal Bone Assemblage, by Meredith Hood
SECTION 4. HUMAN REMAINS
9. Discovery, excavation methodology and burial contexts
10. The human remains from Llanbedrgoch and their contexts
SECTION 5. PREHISTORIC AND ROMAN ARTEFACTS
11. The Prehistoric Artefacts
12. The Roman Artefacts
13. The Roman Coins, by Edward Besly
SECTION 6. EARLY MEDIEVAL ARTEFACTS
14. Items of commerce
15. Personal items
16. Items of hospitality and pleasure
17. Household /domestic utensils
18. Weapons and riding equipment
19. Structural fittings and related items
20. Selection of miscellaneous objects of uncertain function or date
SECTION 7. EVIDENCE FOR CRAFTS AND INDUSTRY
21. Workshop and craft tools
22. Early Medieval Metalworking, by M Redknap and Tim P. Young
23. Early medieval textile manufacture
24. Antler, bone and leatherworking
25. The early medieval quernstones and net sinkers
SECTION 8. POST-SETTLEMENT FINDS (MEDIEVAL AND LATER)
26. Medieval artefacts from Glyn
27. Post-medieval artefacts from Glyn
SECTION 9. LLANBEDRGOCH IN CONTEXT
28. Llanbedrgoch in context: Mesolithic/Phase 1 to Roman/Phase 6
29. Anatomy of Early Medieval Site 2.
30. Early Medieval Sources
31. Llanbedrgoch in context: Early Medieval 1/Phase 8 to Early Medieval 3/Phase 12
32. Glyn, Llanbedrgoch: Medieval and Later (Medieval/Phase 14 to Post-medieval 2/Phase 16)
APPENDICES
In addition to the appendix provided below, appendix on the ‘Inventory and Description of the Human Remains from Llanbedrgoch with metric and non-metric data’, by Professor Alice Roberts, and tabulations of all the results of XRF analyses of artefacts, all the contexts and all the archaeometallurgical data from Llanbedrgoch are available in the site archive.
Appendix 1. Compositional analysis of artefacts from Llanbedrgoch, by Mary Davis and Louise Mumford
Bibliography
| Erscheinungsdatum | 19.08.2025 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 300 B/W and colour illustrations |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 216 x 280 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| ISBN-13 | 979-8-88857-197-2 / 9798888571972 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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