The Later Anglo-Saxon Settlement at Bishopstone (Cba Research Report) - Softcover

Well known for the Early Anglo-Saxon settlement previously excavated on Rookery Hill and its impressive pre-Conquest church, Bishopstone has entered archaeological orthodoxy as a classic example of a 'Middle Saxon Shift'. This volume reports on the excavations from 2002 to 2005 designed to investigate this transition, with the focus on the origins of Bishopstone village. Excavations adjacent to St Andrews churchyard revealed a dense swathe of later Anglo-Saxon (8th- to late 10th-/early 11th-century) habitation, including a planned complex of timber halls, and a unique cellared tower. The occupation encroached upon a pre-Conquest cemetery of 43 inhumations.

Gabor Thomas is a lecturer in Early Medieval Archaeology at the University of Reading. His research spans the archaeology of Early Medieval settlements and later Anglo-Saxon and Viking-age metalwork, for which he gained his doctorate at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. This report brings to conclusion his first large-scale research excavation and he is currently engaged in directing a successor project on the site of an Anglo-Saxon monastic settlement at Lyminge, Kent. He is a Fellow of the Society of the Antiquaries and currently sits on the committee of the Medieval Settlements Research Group.