British Artefact Books
by Brett Hammond
British Artefacts is a series of books for archaeologists, metal-detectorists, artefact researchers and anyone interested in the history of manufactured articles from Britain. The first volume in the series dealt with the early material from the adventus Saxonum through to the middle of the 7th century when the process of conversion to Christianity was underway.
Volume 1 - Early Anglo-Saxon - covers the arrival of the Germanic tribes in Britain at the time of the fall of Rome and their history through to the conversion to Christianity. The book includers a vast range of object types – from the rare and the exotic to the everyday – offering a thorough coverage of the fascinating material which survives from this period. In addition to the outline history, the book features detailed descriptions of many important new finds which shed light into the gloomier corners of the period: the links between the Roman, Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian worlds.
Volume 2 - Middle Saxon & Viking - covers the Middle Saxon material, including the impact that the Vikings had on Anglo-Saxon life during the period of the Great Army, the resistance of King Alfred, the Danelaw and its reconquest by Edward the Elder, the Kingdom of York and the formation of England under King Athelstan. This is of course a rich period with influences coming into the country from Ireland, Carolingian France and Scandinavia. In this period Anglo-Saxon chiefdoms became kingdoms, fought each other, fought the Vikings and eventually became a single state under the West Saxon dynasty.
Volume 3 - Late Saxon, Late Viking and Norman - covers the Later Saxon and Viking material, including the consolidation of power into a single kingdom of England, the later Viking incursions of the 10th-11th century, the reign of the Danish monarch, Cnut, the pro-Norman reign of Edward the Confessor, the struggle for supremacy among English, Norwegian and Norman leaders, the rule of the Norman kings. This is a dramatic period of history with implications for England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland and the later involvement of English monarchs in French wars.
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