
Towns and Topography (Essays in Memory of David H. Hill)
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Towns and Topography (Essays in Memory of David H. Hill)
About this book
Fifteen papers examine a variety of aspects of medieval towns and their topography. The first part of the volume comprises essays on the excavations in the Frankish emporium of Quentovic, directed by David Hill; London; Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Scandinavian mints; the burhs of Somerset; and urban perspectives in literature. The second part concentrates on topographical subjects including an examination of the significance of the distribution through trade of Mayen Lava quernstones in early medieval north-west Europe and the evidence of a charter for the topography of late Anglo-Saxon Worcester which reveals that standing crosses were, by then, considered old fashioned. Other papers consider landscape through place-name studies; long term archaeology projects in The Vale of Pickering, Yorkshire, and western Cheshire; medieval dykes; land holdings needed supporting the monasteries of Jarrow and Monkwearmouth; and aspects of mapping and the understanding of geographical space from Anglo-Saxon times and in the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. The papers are preceded by a tribute to archaeologist and historian David Hill, and a bibliography of his publications.
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Table of contents
- 00 Towns Prelims+ill
- 01 Towns
- 02 Towns
- 03 Towns
- 04 Towns
- 05 Towns
- 06 Towns
- 07 Towns
- 08 Towns
- 09 Towns
- 10 Towns
- 11 Towns
- 12 Towns
- 13 Towns
- 14 Towns
- 15 Towns
- 16 Towns
- 17 Towns
- 18 Towns
- 19 Towns Biblio
- 20 Towns Index