The Society for Medieval Archaeology Monographs
About the Book Series
The Society has published a series of monographs for more than 50 years. Our list includes synthetic edited volumes on specific themes such as the archaeology of the 11th century and maritime societies of the Viking and medieval world. We also publish excavation monographs on all medieval site types from cemeteries and burials, rural settlement, towns, industry, religious and monastic sites, to manors and moat. Accounts of some of medieval archaeology's most iconic excavations can be found here.
All the publications are fully refereed with the aim of publishing at the highest academic level reports on sites of national and international importance, and of encouraging the widest debate. The series’ objectives are to cover the broadest chronological and geographical range and to assemble a series of volumes which reflect the changing intellectual and technical scope of the discipline.
Excavations at the Austin Friary, Hull, Yorkshire, 1994 and 1999, Part 2: The Fabric and the Material Culture
1st Edition
By D H Evans, Lisa M. Wastling
June 05, 2026
Excavations at the Austin Friary, Hull, Yorkshire, 1994 and 1999, Part 2, details the excavations of the Austin Friary in Hull, a house founded in 1316/17 and surrendered to the Crown in 1539. This volume concentrates on the material culture recovered during the excavations. The site yielded a ...
Excavations at the Austin Friary, Hull, Yorkshire, 1994 and 1999, Part 1: The Stratigraphic Sequence
1st Edition
By D H Evans
October 29, 2025
The Austin Friary at Hull was founded in 1316/17 as a daughter-house of the York friary. It would be the very last of the Order to surrender to the Crown, on 10 March 1539. This monastic house was located in the heart of the medieval Old Town, next to its market place. It was excavated in 1994 and ...
Burton Dassett Southend, Warwickshire: A Medieval Market Village
1st Edition
By Nicholas Palmer, Jonathan Parkhouse
February 01, 2023
Southend, one of five medieval settlements in Burton Dassett parish, Warwickshire, was the site of a market promoted by the manorial lord Bartholomew de Sudeley, with a charter being obtained in 1267. The settlement prospered, becoming known as Chipping Dassett, and approached urban status, but ...
Negotiating the North: Meeting-Places in the Middle Ages in the North Sea Zone
1st Edition
By Sarah Semple, Alexandra Sanmark, Frode Iversen, Natascha Mehler
May 06, 2022
This book brings together the cumulative results of a three-year project focused on the assemblies and administrative systems of Scandinavia, Britain, and the North Atlantic islands in the 1st and 2nd millennia AD. In this volume we integrate a wide range of historical, cartographic, archaeological...
Waiting for the End of the World?: New Perspectives on Natural Disasters in Medieval Europe
1st Edition
Edited
By Christopher M. Gerrard, Paolo Forlin, Peter J. Brown
April 29, 2022
Waiting for the End of the World? addresses the archaeological, architectural, historical and geological evidence for natural disasters in the Middle Ages between the 11th and 16th centuries. This volume adopts a fresh interdisciplinary approach to explore the many ways in which environmental ...
Faxton: Excavations in a deserted Northamptonshire village 1966–68
1st Edition
Edited
By Lawrence Butler, Christopher Gerrard
September 08, 2020
The village of Faxton in Northamptonshire was only finally deserted in the second half of the 20th century. Shortly afterwards, between 1966 and 1968, its medieval crofts were investigated under the direction of archaeologist Lawrence Butler. At the time this was one of the most ambitious ...
Able Minds and Practiced Hands: Scotland's Early Medieval Sculpture in the 21st Century
1st Edition
By Sally M. Foster, Morag Cross
June 30, 2020
This book presents essays that exemplify key themes including the interdependence of conservation, research and access; the need for a 21st-century inventory of the medieval sculpture; the breadth and value of the wide range of the research tools; and conservation issue....
Land, Sea and Home: Proceedings of a Conference on Viking-Period Settlement
1st Edition
Edited
By John Hines, Alan Lane, Mark Redknap
June 30, 2020
The twenty-eight papers in this volume explore the practical !ife, domestic settings, landscapes and seascapes of the Viking world. Their geographical horizons stretch from Iceland to Russia, with particular emphasis on new discoveries in the Scandinavian homelands and in Britain and Ireland. With ...
Reflections: 50 Years of Medieval Archaeology, 1957-2007: No. 30: 50 Years of Medieval Archaeology, 1957-2007
1st Edition
Edited
By Roberta Gilchrist, Andrew Reynolds
June 30, 2020
This volume celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Society for Medieval Archaeology (established in 1957), presenting reflections on the history, development and future prospects of the discipline. The papers are drawn from a series of conferences and workshops that took place in 2007-2008, in ...
Eckweek, Peasedown St John, Somerset: Survey and Excavations at a Shrunken Medieval Hamlet 1988–90
1st Edition
Edited
By The Society for Medieval Archaeology, Andrew Young
May 12, 2020
This volume presents the results of archaeological survey and excavation at Eckweek, Somerset, which yielded one of the most important medieval rural settlement sequences yet excavated from south-west England. At the centre of the narrative is a succession of well-preserved buildings spanning the ...
Anglo-Saxon Graves and Grave Goods of the 6th and 7th Centuries AD: A Chronological Framework
1st Edition
Edited
By John Hines, Alex Bayliss
December 12, 2019
The Early Anglo-Saxon Period is characterized archaeologically by the regular deposition of artefacts in human graves in England. The scope for dating these objects and graves has long been studied, but it has typically proved easier to identify and enumerate the chronological problems of the ...
The Archaeology of the Early Medieval Celtic Churches: No. 29
1st Edition
By Nancy Edwards
December 12, 2019
This book examines what we know and do not know about different aspects of the archaeology of the early medieval Celtic churches in Celtic-speaking areas of Wales, Scotland, Ireland, south-west Britain and Brittany to compare and contrast the evidence and to suggest some avenues for future research....