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 1: The Stratigraphic Sequence
1st Edition
By D. H. Evans
November 28, 2025
Excavations at the Austin Friary, Hull, Yorkshire, 1994 and 1999, Part 1, details the excavations of the Austin Friary in Hull, a house founded in 1316/17 and surrendered to the Crown in 1539. With the excavations exposing the majority of the church, all the East Range, most of the West Range 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 ...
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....
Princes of the Church: Bishops and their Palaces
1st Edition
Edited
By David Rollason
June 06, 2019
Princes of the Church brings together the latest research exploring the importance of bishops’ palaces for social and political history, landscape history, architectural history and archaeology. It is the first book-length study of such sites since Michael Thompson’s Medieval Bishops’ Houses (1998)...
Maritime Societies of the Viking and Medieval World
1st Edition
Edited
By James H. Barrett, Sarah Jane Gibbon
April 11, 2019
This book is a study of communities that drew their identity and livelihood from their relationships with water during a pivotal time in the creation of the social, economic and political landscapes of northern Europe. It focuses on the Baltic, North and Irish Seas in the Viking Age (ad 1050–1200),...
The Archaeology of the 11th Century: Continuities and Transformations
1st Edition
Edited
By Dawn M Hadley, Christopher Dyer
March 28, 2019
The Archaeology of the 11th Century addresses many key questions surrounding this formative period of English history and considers conditions before 1066 and how these changed. The impact of the Conquest of England by the Normans is the central focus of the book, which not only assesses the ...
Wigmore Castle, North Herefordshire: Excavations 1996 and 1998
1st Edition
By Stephanie Ratkai
April 02, 2015
Excavations at Wigmore Castle were carried out in 1996 and 1998 as a precursor to repair and consolidation of the castle by English Heritage. Wigmore Castle, North Herefordshire details the results of that excavation providing the most up-to-date archaeological information yet available on this ...