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Bibliography

Included below are a selection of books mentioned during the lessons, plus others that may be useful for typologies, background, etc.

Many should be available through Amazon.com or Oxbow books, or through second hand booksearches.
 
Author Title Publisher/Date Notes
Avent, R. Anglo-Saxon Garnet Inlaid Disc and Composite Brooches BAR 11, Oxford, 1975 Contains typology for these brooches
Cossley-Holland, Kevin The Anglo-Saxon World Oxford
Dickinson, Tania and Härke, Heinrich Early Anglo-Saxon Shields Society of Antiquaries, 1992 Contains typologies for shield bosses and fittings.
Evison, Vera I. Dover - The Buckland Anglo-Saxon Cemetery HBMCE, 1987 A Franco-Kentish Cemetery in South-east England, mainly 6th-7th century.
Evison, Vera I. An Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Alton, Hampshire Hampshire Field Club Monographs, 1988 A Saxon/Jutish cemetery in Southern England, mainly 5th-mid 6th century.
Evison, Vera An Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Great Chesterford, Essex Council for British Archaeology, 1994 A Saxon cemetery of the mid 5th-early7th century in East-Central England.
Evison, Vera I.  and Hill, Prue Two Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries at Beckford, Hereford and Worcester Council for British Archeology, 1996 Mainly West Saxon cemeteries of the late 5th-mid 6th century.  South-western England.
Garmonsway, N. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles
Graham-Campbell, James The Anglo-Saxons Phaidon
Green, Barbara and Rogerson,  Andrew Bergh Apton, Norfolk East Anglian Archaeology, 1978 Anglian Cemetery of the 6th-7th centuries in East Anglia.
Green, Barbara, Rogerson,  Andrew and White, Susan G.  Morning Thorpe Anglo-Saxon Cemetery, Vol 1&2 East Anglian Archaeology, 1987 Anglian Cemetery of the late 5th-7th centuries in East Anglia.
Hald, Margrethe  Ancient Danish Textiles from Bogs and Burials National Museum of Denmark, 1980
Hills, Catherine, Penn, Kenneth and Rickett, Robert  Spong Hill Part III Catalogue of Inhumations East Anglian Archaeology, 1984 Anglian Cemetery of the 5th-6th centuries in East Anglia.
Hirst, Susan M. An Anglo-Saxon Inhumation Cemetery at Sewerby, East Yorkshire York University Archaeological Publications, 1985 Anglian cemetery of the late 5th-6th century, North-eastern England.
Myres, J. N. L. and Green, Barbara  The Anglo-Saxon Cemeteries of Caistor-by-Norwich and Markshall, Norfolk Society of Antiquaries, 1973 Two Anglian cemeteries of the 5th-7th centuries in East Anglia.
Penn, Kenneth  An Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Oxborough, West Norfolk East Anglian Archaeology, 1998 Anglian Cemetery of the late 5th-7th centuries in East Anglia.
Savage, Anne The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles
Stenton, Sir Frank Anglo-Saxon England Oxford, 1947
Swanton, M. J. The Spearheads of the Anglo-Saxon Settlements London, 1973 Contains typologies for Anglo-Saxon Sprearheads
West, Stanley E.  Westgarth Gardens Anglo-Saxon Cemetery, Suffolk East Anglian Archaeology, 1988 Anglian Cemetery of the late 5th-7th centuries in East Anglia.

 
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