Christopher Scull
Biographic Data
| ID | 1135179 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christopher Scull |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christopher |
| FAMILY NAME | Scull |
| SIGNATURE | SCULL C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-0807-2549 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Excavations at Rendlesham, Suffolk, 2021–2023
Early Medieval Copper-Alloy Metalworking at Rendlesham, Suffolk, England
THE 5TH- TO 8TH-CENTURY METAL-DETECTED ASSEMBLAGE FROM RENDLESHAM includes material representing the manufacture of copper-alloy and precious metal objects in the later 6th and 7th centuries. This study of the copper alloys focuses on the evidence for manufacturing technology, sets it against the evidence for alloy compositions and metal supply from the wider assemblage, and considers the scale and organisation of production at the site. Examinat…
Practice, Power and Place
This paper advances understanding of rulership over the fifth to the ninth centuries AD, drawing upon a category of elite settlement from southern Britain known as the great hall complex. Guided by a practice-based conceptual framework, we connect these sites with the embodied regimens, rituals, habits, and activities through which rulership was constituted in the early medieval world. Harnessing recent expanded datasets, we generate insights in …
Halls of Mirrors
The commentators’ reflections on rulers’ residences as a manifestation of developing socio-political complexity raise some issues that require clarification. In our discussion of the temporality of
Sceattas in Anglo-Saxon Graves
ANGLO-SAXON SILVER PENNIES (sceattas) are rare as gravegoods, but their provision was a regular element of burial practice in a small minority of later 7th-century-furnished inhumations and later burials. Although the number both of coins and burials is very small, they show patterns of deposition and treatment that have both a cultural and a broader chronological significance. This sample provides a window on social and symbolic attitudes to the…
Social and economic complexity in early medieval England
Food, Eating and Identity in Early Medieval England, by Allen J. Frantzen
Food cultures — or ‘foodways’ in the precise but unlovely jargon of current archaeology — are fundamental aspects of human social behaviour but have been recognized only rather belatedly as worthy
Northwest Europe in the Early Middle Ages, c. AD 600–1150
Martin Carver, Catherine Hills & Jonathan Scheschkewitz. Wasperton
Martin Carver, Catherine Hills & Jonathan Scheschkewitz. Wasperton: a Roman, British and Anglo-Saxon community in central England. x+372 pages, 73 b&w & colour illustrations, 45 tables. 2009. Woodbridge: Boydell; 978-1-843834-27-4 hardback £60 & $115. - Volume 83 Issue 322
Snape Anglo-Saxon Cemetery
How the Dead Live
Burial and Society
(1998). Burial and Society: The Chronological and Social Analysis of Archaeological Burial Data. Edited by C. Kjeld Jensen and K. Hoilund Nielsen. Archaeological Journal: Vol. 155, No. 1, pp. 404-405
Exploratory Excavation at Braye-en-Laonnois, Renge River, 1991
This report is concerned with excavation at Braye-en-Laonnois, Departement Aisne, north-east France, in August and September 1991 by a team from the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, and the University of Durham. The work was carried out as part of a wider programme of research into rural settlement and landscape in the Aisne Valley in the 1st millennia BC and AD (Haselgrove 1989; Haselgrove et al. 1990a, 1991), and was prompte…
Excavation and Survey at Watchfield, Oxfordshire, 1983–92
Geophysical survey and excavation have demonstrated that iron age settlement features and early Anglo-Saxon burials discovered during road construction in 1983 were part of an extensive multi-period site, now a Scheduled Ancient Monument. This paper presents the results of the archaeological investigations. The bulk of the report is concerned with the early Anglo-Saxon burials, which included a grave containing a balance, weights and runic inscri…
Post-Roman Phase I at Yeavering
RE-EXAMINATION of the affinities and dating of the post-Roman phase I buildings at Yeavering, Northumberland, suggests that they might be attributed equally well to a 6th-century Anglo-Saxon as to a post-Roman British context. This would accord with other evidence for 6th- or early 7th-century Anglian communities in the Milfield Basin
Archaeology, Economy and Society
Scales and Weights in Early Anglo-Saxon England
Analysis of weights found with balances in early Anglo-Saxon graves suggests that they were based on the standards of contemporary continental gold coinages, arguing that they were used in currency transactions. The social and economic context of such transactions is discussed
Scales and Weights in Early Anglo-Saxon England
Analysis of weights found with balances in early Anglo-Saxon graves suggests that they were based on the standards of contemporary continental gold coinages, arguing that they were used in currency transactions. The social and economic context of such transactions is discussed
Social and economic complexity in early medieval England
Practice, Power and Place
This paper advances understanding of rulership over the fifth to the ninth centuries AD, drawing upon a category of elite settlement from southern Britain known as the great hall complex. Guided by a practice-based conceptual framework, we connect these sites with the embodied regimens, rituals, habits, and activities through which rulership was constituted in the early medieval world. Harnessing recent expanded datasets, we generate insights in …
Excavation and Survey at Watchfield, Oxfordshire, 1983–92
Geophysical survey and excavation have demonstrated that iron age settlement features and early Anglo-Saxon burials discovered during road construction in 1983 were part of an extensive multi-period site, now a Scheduled Ancient Monument. This paper presents the results of the archaeological investigations. The bulk of the report is concerned with the early Anglo-Saxon burials, which included a grave containing a balance, weights and runic inscri…
Post-Roman Phase I at Yeavering
RE-EXAMINATION of the affinities and dating of the post-Roman phase I buildings at Yeavering, Northumberland, suggests that they might be attributed equally well to a 6th-century Anglo-Saxon as to a post-Roman British context. This would accord with other evidence for 6th- or early 7th-century Anglian communities in the Milfield Basin
Early Medieval Copper-Alloy Metalworking at Rendlesham, Suffolk, England
THE 5TH- TO 8TH-CENTURY METAL-DETECTED ASSEMBLAGE FROM RENDLESHAM includes material representing the manufacture of copper-alloy and precious metal objects in the later 6th and 7th centuries. This study of the copper alloys focuses on the evidence for manufacturing technology, sets it against the evidence for alloy compositions and metal supply from the wider assemblage, and considers the scale and organisation of production at the site. Examinat…
Sceattas in Anglo-Saxon Graves
ANGLO-SAXON SILVER PENNIES (sceattas) are rare as gravegoods, but their provision was a regular element of burial practice in a small minority of later 7th-century-furnished inhumations and later burials. Although the number both of coins and burials is very small, they show patterns of deposition and treatment that have both a cultural and a broader chronological significance. This sample provides a window on social and symbolic attitudes to the…
Halls of Mirrors
The commentators’ reflections on rulers’ residences as a manifestation of developing socio-political complexity raise some issues that require clarification. In our discussion of the temporality of
Archaeology, Economy and Society
Scales and Weights in Early Anglo-Saxon England
Analysis of weights found with balances in early Anglo-Saxon graves suggests that they were based on the standards of contemporary continental gold coinages, arguing that they were used in currency transactions. The social and economic context of such transactions is discussed
Post-Roman Phase I at Yeavering
RE-EXAMINATION of the affinities and dating of the post-Roman phase I buildings at Yeavering, Northumberland, suggests that they might be attributed equally well to a 6th-century Anglo-Saxon as to a post-Roman British context. This would accord with other evidence for 6th- or early 7th-century Anglian communities in the Milfield Basin
Exploratory Excavation at Braye-en-Laonnois, Renge River, 1991
This report is concerned with excavation at Braye-en-Laonnois, Departement Aisne, north-east France, in August and September 1991 by a team from the Institute of Archaeology, University College London, and the University of Durham. The work was carried out as part of a wider programme of research into rural settlement and landscape in the Aisne Valley in the 1st millennia BC and AD (Haselgrove 1989; Haselgrove et al. 1990a, 1991), and was prompte…
Excavation and Survey at Watchfield, Oxfordshire, 1983–92
Geophysical survey and excavation have demonstrated that iron age settlement features and early Anglo-Saxon burials discovered during road construction in 1983 were part of an extensive multi-period site, now a Scheduled Ancient Monument. This paper presents the results of the archaeological investigations. The bulk of the report is concerned with the early Anglo-Saxon burials, which included a grave containing a balance, weights and runic inscri…
Burial and Society
(1998). Burial and Society: The Chronological and Social Analysis of Archaeological Burial Data. Edited by C. Kjeld Jensen and K. Hoilund Nielsen. Archaeological Journal: Vol. 155, No. 1, pp. 404-405
How the Dead Live
Snape Anglo-Saxon Cemetery
Martin Carver, Catherine Hills & Jonathan Scheschkewitz. Wasperton
Martin Carver, Catherine Hills & Jonathan Scheschkewitz. Wasperton: a Roman, British and Anglo-Saxon community in central England. x+372 pages, 73 b&w & colour illustrations, 45 tables. 2009. Woodbridge: Boydell; 978-1-843834-27-4 hardback £60 & $115. - Volume 83 Issue 322
Food, Eating and Identity in Early Medieval England, by Allen J. Frantzen
Food cultures — or ‘foodways’ in the precise but unlovely jargon of current archaeology — are fundamental aspects of human social behaviour but have been recognized only rather belatedly as worthy
Northwest Europe in the Early Middle Ages, c. AD 600–1150
Sceattas in Anglo-Saxon Graves
ANGLO-SAXON SILVER PENNIES (sceattas) are rare as gravegoods, but their provision was a regular element of burial practice in a small minority of later 7th-century-furnished inhumations and later burials. Although the number both of coins and burials is very small, they show patterns of deposition and treatment that have both a cultural and a broader chronological significance. This sample provides a window on social and symbolic attitudes to the…
Social and economic complexity in early medieval England
Practice, Power and Place
This paper advances understanding of rulership over the fifth to the ninth centuries AD, drawing upon a category of elite settlement from southern Britain known as the great hall complex. Guided by a practice-based conceptual framework, we connect these sites with the embodied regimens, rituals, habits, and activities through which rulership was constituted in the early medieval world. Harnessing recent expanded datasets, we generate insights in …
Halls of Mirrors
The commentators’ reflections on rulers’ residences as a manifestation of developing socio-political complexity raise some issues that require clarification. In our discussion of the temporality of
Early Medieval Copper-Alloy Metalworking at Rendlesham, Suffolk, England
THE 5TH- TO 8TH-CENTURY METAL-DETECTED ASSEMBLAGE FROM RENDLESHAM includes material representing the manufacture of copper-alloy and precious metal objects in the later 6th and 7th centuries. This study of the copper alloys focuses on the evidence for manufacturing technology, sets it against the evidence for alloy compositions and metal supply from the wider assemblage, and considers the scale and organisation of production at the site. Examinat…
Excavations at Rendlesham, Suffolk, 2021–2023
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