| Contents |
Introduction : material culture and the study of Anglo-Saxon England / Maren Clegg Hyer -- Prelude : agriculture through the year / David Hill -- The true staff of life : the multiple roles of plants / C.P. Biggam -- Steep vessel, high horn-ship : water transport / Katrin Thier -- 'To eat, to wear, to work' : the place of sheep and cattle in the economy / Christopher Grocock -- Devils' crafts and dragon skins? Sheaths, shoes and other leatherwork / Esther Cameron and Quita Mould -- Chanting upon a dunghill : working skeletal materials / Ian Riddler and Nicola Trzaska-Nartowski -- Earth's treasure : food and drink / Christina Lee -- Woven works : making and using textiles / Maren Clegg Hyer and Gale R. Owen-Crocker -- Weland's work : metals and metalsmiths / David A. Hinton -- 'Seldom ... does the deadly spear rest for long' : weapons and armour / Gale R. Owen-Crocker -- Things of this world : portable antiquities and their potential / Michael Lewis, Andrew Richardson and David Williams -- Sight, insight and hand : some reflections on the design and manufacture of the Fuller brooch / Elizabeth Coatsworth and Michael Pinder -- The bright cup : early medieval vessel glass / Win Stephens -- Body and soul : disease and impairment / Christina Lee. |
