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.
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 ...
The Hirsel Excavations
1st Edition
By Rosemary Cramp
April 30, 2014
Excavations and surveys adjacent to Hirsel House, Coldstream, have revealed a remarkably detailed history of a proprietary church and its cemetery for a period when the parochial structure in Scotland was in course of development, and when very little is known about the fate of estate churches ...
Transforming Townscapes: From Burh to Borough: the Archaeology of Wallingford, AD 800-1400
1st Edition
By Neil Christie, Oliver Creighton, Matt Edgeworth, Helena Hamerow
October 04, 2013
Transforming Townscapes details the results of a major archaeological project based on and around the historic town of Wallingford in south Oxfordshire. Founded in the late Saxon period as a key defensive and administrative focus next to the Thames, the settlement also contained a substantial royal...
Ironwork in Medieval Britain: An Archaeological Study: v. 31: An Archaeological Study
1st Edition
By Ian H. Goodall
December 01, 2011
Ironwork in Medieval Britain is the definitive survey of iron tools and other fittings in use during the period c1066 to 1540AD....
The Chapel and Burial Ground on St Ninian's Isle, Shetland: Excavations Past and Present: v. 32: Excavations Past and Present
1st Edition
By Rachel C. Barrowman
December 01, 2011
This book describes the results of a small research project undertaken at Glasgow University with the aim of revisiting the archaeology at the site through a study of the archive material from the 1950s excavations, and renewed survey and excavation work on the Isle Shetland over two summer seasons....
Caldecote: The Development and Desertion of a Hertfordshire Village
1st Edition
By Guy Beresford
March 01, 2009
In 1973 the Department of Environment and the Deserted Medieval Village Research Group arranged a rescue excavation to examine the earthworks of the medieval village of Cladecote before they were levelled and ploughed....
Excavations at Dryslwyn Castle 1980-1995
1st Edition
By Chris Caple
December 01, 2007
Excavations at Dryslwyn between 1980 and 1995 uncovered a masonry castle, founded in the late 1220s by Rhys Gryg for his son Maredudd ap Rhys, the first Lord of Dryslwyn. The first castle was a simple round tower and polygonal walled enclosure, within which were constructed a kitchen, prison and ...
The Shapwick Project, Somerset: A Rural Landscape Explored
1st Edition
By Christopher Gerrard, Mick Aston
December 01, 2007
This book provides an introduction to the Shapwick Project's objectives, geographical background and previous work in the Somerset. It deals with excavations in the outlying parish and focuses on work in the village at Shapwick House....
Town and Country in the Middle Ages: Contrasts, Contacts and Interconnections, 1100-1500: No. 22
1st Edition
Edited
By Christopher Dyer, Kate Giles
December 01, 2005
Proceedings of the Society's conference held at the University of York in April 2002. This book brings together the papers presented at the Society for Medieval Archaeology's spring conference held in York in 2002. The conference set out to reunite urban and rural archaeology. Papers define the ...