David A Hinton
Biographic Data
| ID | 1186773 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David A Hinton |
| GIVEN NAMES | David A |
| FAMILY NAME | Hinton |
| SIGNATURE | HINTON D A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Southampton |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 32 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Barns, granaries and security
Increased storage capacity was an essential part of demesne farming in England, as many surviving barns indicate. Their size facilitated their use also as winter workplaces for threshing grain and pulses. Another use, although undocumented, was probably wool storage. Church estates in particular invested in them, but the later Middle Ages saw many, mostly smaller, barns built by prospering tenant farmers. They therefore had considerable social as…
The date and purpose of the Anglo-Saxon Chapel at Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire
A recent argument that the surviving masonry of the late Saxon chapel at Bradford-on-Avon was left unfinished by its builders is challenged. Instead, it is proposed that the work had been done hurriedly. Fort-building by King Æthelred II (979–1014) in the early part of his reign is also questioned. The possible implications of a cist-burial excavated outside the west end of the chapel are considered
Feeding birds in medieval England
Formative Britain
Formative Britain: an archaeology of Britain, fifth to eleventh century AD." Archaeological Journal, 177(2), pp. 435–436
The use of computed tomography for the study of archaeological coins
An Early Anglo-Saxon Cemetery and Archaeological Survey at Breamore, Hampshire, 1999–2006
A Byzantine pail, datable to the sixth century AD, was discovered in 1999, in a field near the River Avon in Breamore, Hampshire. Subsequent fieldwork confirmed the presence there of an early Anglo-Saxon cemetery. In 2001, limited excavation located graves that were unusual, both for their accompanying goods and for the number of double and triple burials. This evidence suggests that Breamore was the location of a well-supplied ‘frontier’ communi…
The Art, Literature, and Material Culture of the Medieval World
The Art, Literature, and Material Culture of the Medieval World: Transition, Transformation, and Taxonomy, edited by Meg Boultonand Jane Hawkes." Archaeological Journal, 173(2), p. 382
Demography
Various calculations of the population of late eleventh-century England have been made from Domesday Book, but scrutiny of a range of manorial entries suggests that it under-recorded an even larger number of people than has previously been estimated. Using documentary, field and artefactual evidence, a population of 2.5 million can be considered, which has consequences for estimates of the speed of its subsequent increase
Roberta Gilchrist. Medieval life
Roberta Gilchrist. Medieval life: archaeology and the life course. xvi+336 pages, 18 colour plates and 80 b&w illustrations. 2012. Woodbridge: Boydell; 978-1-84383-722-0 hardback £ 30. - Volume 87 Issue 336
Alfred Jewel
The Dolphin Inn Hoard
This paper discusses the evidence relating to a mid-thirteenth-century hoard of coins and jewellery discovered beneath a cellar in Cambridge in 1817. Five gold rings with gemstone settings survive from this group and are now in the possession of Trinity College library; these rings are examined, and their date and significance explored. The history of the material—from its initial discovery up until the mid-nineteenth century when the rings were …
Two Decades of Discovery – Edited by Tony Abramson
Recent Work at the Chapel of St Laurence, Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire
Excavation in September 2000 on the south side of the Anglo-Saxon chapel at Bradford-on- Avon, Wiltshire, showed that the missing south porticus would have been high enough to have had two internal storeys. Because it was built on steeply sloping ground, the chapel's walls needed deep foundations on the south side; observation on the north side confirmed that no footings had been thought necessary below the plinth of the nave and chancel. If the …
Coinage and History in the North Sea World c .500–1250. Essays in Honour of Marion Archibald ‐ Edited by Barrie Cook and Gareth Williams
Adapting to Life Without the Legions
If gold and silver are a measure of wealth, late Roman Britain was very rich. Hoards of coins, jewellery, and plate buried in the late fourth and early fifth centuries show that their owners’ lifestyle was coming to an end as central imperial authority broke down, troops were withdrawn from the island, villas fell into disuse, and towns lost their markets and trade. Raiders threatened by land and sea: Irish from the west, Pictish from the north, …
Debate
(2005). Debate: South Hampshire, ‘East Wessex’ and the Atlas of Rural Settlement in England. Landscape History: Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 71-75
Dress in Anglo-Saxon England
Dress in Anglo-Saxon England. By GALE R. OWEN-CROCKER (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 2004; pp. xix + 400. £30). ORIGINALLY published in 1986, this book became a key text for anyone studying Anglo-Saxon society, and will be welcomed in this revised and enlarged edition. It is almost twice as long as the first edition, for three reasons. First, new data have appeared, principally as a result of the increase in the publication of archaeological reports, p…
Triangulating the circle
Debate
Monastic Archaeology
1University of Southampton Monastic Archaeology: Papers on the Study of Medieval Monasteries GrahamKeevillMickAstonTeresaHall OxfordOxbow Books 2001202£35
Short Reviews
Closing’ and the Later Middle Ages
THE RELEVANCE of ‘closure theory’ to archaeology is discussed, and it is argued that the role of material culture in shaping medieval group identities was enhanced by taxation on movable property during the 13th century. Emphasis on monetary value led to concepts of ranking expressed in sumptuary laws and the use of symbols in late medieval contractual society
The ‘Scole-Dickleburgh field system’ examined
In some areas of eastern England, ‘semi-regular grid systems’ of field boundaries have been claimed as Roman or earlier. This paper examines in detail an example in south Norfolk, and questions the hypothesis that the Venta to Londinium Roman road is an intrusion into a co-axial pattern of fields and lanes. It is suggested instead that the earliest routes followed the local topography, and that they and other features such as the edges of greens …
Short Reviews
Sutton Hoo Reviewed
Monastic Archaeology
1University of Southampton Monastic Archaeology: Papers on the Study of Medieval Monasteries GrahamKeevillMickAstonTeresaHall OxfordOxbow Books 2001202£35
Excavation of Prehistoric, Roman, and Saxon Deposits at Wraysbury, Berkshire
This report is concerned with a sampling excavation of Bronze Age, Roman and late Saxon/early medieval settlement traces near the church at Wraysbury, Berkshire. The most extensive evidence is for an agricultural settlement of the late ninth to twelfth centuries A. D. based on a series of ditched enclosures and trackways. The settlement moved location during the eleventh century. The environmental evidence is particularly important. A large fauna…
Dress in Anglo-Saxon England
Dress in Anglo-Saxon England. By GALE R. OWEN-CROCKER (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 2004; pp. xix + 400. £30). ORIGINALLY published in 1986, this book became a key text for anyone studying Anglo-Saxon society, and will be welcomed in this revised and enlarged edition. It is almost twice as long as the first edition, for three reasons. First, new data have appeared, principally as a result of the increase in the publication of archaeological reports, p…
The use of computed tomography for the study of archaeological coins
Recent Work at the Chapel of St Laurence, Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire
Excavation in September 2000 on the south side of the Anglo-Saxon chapel at Bradford-on- Avon, Wiltshire, showed that the missing south porticus would have been high enough to have had two internal storeys. Because it was built on steeply sloping ground, the chapel's walls needed deep foundations on the south side; observation on the north side confirmed that no footings had been thought necessary below the plinth of the nave and chancel. If the …
The date and purpose of the Anglo-Saxon Chapel at Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire
A recent argument that the surviving masonry of the late Saxon chapel at Bradford-on-Avon was left unfinished by its builders is challenged. Instead, it is proposed that the work had been done hurriedly. Fort-building by King Æthelred II (979–1014) in the early part of his reign is also questioned. The possible implications of a cist-burial excavated outside the west end of the chapel are considered
Closing’ and the Later Middle Ages
THE RELEVANCE of ‘closure theory’ to archaeology is discussed, and it is argued that the role of material culture in shaping medieval group identities was enhanced by taxation on movable property during the 13th century. Emphasis on monetary value led to concepts of ranking expressed in sumptuary laws and the use of symbols in late medieval contractual society
The Winchester Reliquary
DURING an excavation outside the NW. corner of the defences of Winchester, Hants., an object was discovered which careful conservation proved to be an early medieval burse-reliquary. It has a wooden core, to which are tacked thin, gilt copper-alloy metal sheets, with embossed decoration. The context of the reliquary suggests its loss in the late 9th or early 10th century, and its art-historical associations indicate that it had been made at some …
Late Anglo-Saxon metal-work
It is a decade since the British Museum published its catalogue of late Anglo-Saxon metal-work – ‘late’ in this context meaning between the eighth century and the eleventh – and the only museum with a comparable collection has now produced an equivalent volume. Probably there will not be any more such catalogues, for no other museum has enough metal-work to make a separate publication worthwhile, although composite catalogues, like the numismatis…
Formative Britain
Formative Britain: an archaeology of Britain, fifth to eleventh century AD." Archaeological Journal, 177(2), pp. 435–436
Demography
Various calculations of the population of late eleventh-century England have been made from Domesday Book, but scrutiny of a range of manorial entries suggests that it under-recorded an even larger number of people than has previously been estimated. Using documentary, field and artefactual evidence, a population of 2.5 million can be considered, which has consequences for estimates of the speed of its subsequent increase
The Dolphin Inn Hoard
This paper discusses the evidence relating to a mid-thirteenth-century hoard of coins and jewellery discovered beneath a cellar in Cambridge in 1817. Five gold rings with gemstone settings survive from this group and are now in the possession of Trinity College library; these rings are examined, and their date and significance explored. The history of the material—from its initial discovery up until the mid-nineteenth century when the rings were …
Short Notices
Short Notices Get access DAVID A. HINTON DAVID A. HINTON Asbmolean MuseumOxford Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume LXXXVI, Issue CCCXXXIX, April 1971, Pages 394–395, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/LXXXVI.CCCXXXIX.394 Published: 01 April 1971
Late Anglo-Saxon metal-work
It is a decade since the British Museum published its catalogue of late Anglo-Saxon metal-work – ‘late’ in this context meaning between the eighth century and the eleventh – and the only museum with a comparable collection has now produced an equivalent volume. Probably there will not be any more such catalogues, for no other museum has enough metal-work to make a separate publication worthwhile, although composite catalogues, like the numismatis…
Excavation report publications
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The Sutton Hoo Ship Burial
The Sutton Hoo Ship Burial: A Handbook. By Rupert Bruce-Mitford." Archaeological Journal, 138(1), p. 285
The Winchester Reliquary
DURING an excavation outside the NW. corner of the defences of Winchester, Hants., an object was discovered which careful conservation proved to be an early medieval burse-reliquary. It has a wooden core, to which are tacked thin, gilt copper-alloy metal sheets, with embossed decoration. The context of the reliquary suggests its loss in the late 9th or early 10th century, and its art-historical associations indicate that it had been made at some …
Anglo-Norman Ulster
Anglo-Norman Ulster: The History and Archaeology of an Irish Barony, 1177–1400. By T. E. McNeill." Archaeological Journal, 139(1), pp. 469–470
Short Reviews
Short Reviews
Short Reviews
Archaeology and the Middle Ages
PrefaceThe Society for Medieval Archaeology is often asked to give its opinion on matters relevant to its interests, as it is the specialist body best able to contribute a particular view upon general issues and to consider problems that pertain specifically to its area of study. The Society's advice is sought each year by the Historic Buildings and Monuments Commission for England on the allocation of grants to medieval projects, and in 1986 the…
Excavation of Prehistoric, Roman, and Saxon Deposits at Wraysbury, Berkshire
This report is concerned with a sampling excavation of Bronze Age, Roman and late Saxon/early medieval settlement traces near the church at Wraysbury, Berkshire. The most extensive evidence is for an agricultural settlement of the late ninth to twelfth centuries A. D. based on a series of ditched enclosures and trackways. The settlement moved location during the eleventh century. The environmental evidence is particularly important. A large fauna…
Short Reviews
Archaeology, Economy and Society
Sutton Hoo Reviewed
A smith's hoard from Tattershall Thorpe, Lincolnshire
During 1981, excavation of a large sand and gravel pit in Tattershall Thorpe, Lincolnshire, revealed many traces of Neolithic occupation and three Roman pits (fig. 8). In the southwestern part of the site, a sub-rectangular feature, aligned approximately east-west (pl. II a ), was found to contain a large number of iron tools and other objects, including Roman coins and glass which initially caused the material to be reported as Romano-British. S…
Short Reviews
The ‘Scole-Dickleburgh field system’ examined
In some areas of eastern England, ‘semi-regular grid systems’ of field boundaries have been claimed as Roman or earlier. This paper examines in detail an example in south Norfolk, and questions the hypothesis that the Venta to Londinium Roman road is an intrusion into a co-axial pattern of fields and lanes. It is suggested instead that the earliest routes followed the local topography, and that they and other features such as the edges of greens …
Short Reviews
Closing’ and the Later Middle Ages
THE RELEVANCE of ‘closure theory’ to archaeology is discussed, and it is argued that the role of material culture in shaping medieval group identities was enhanced by taxation on movable property during the 13th century. Emphasis on monetary value led to concepts of ranking expressed in sumptuary laws and the use of symbols in late medieval contractual society
Triangulating the circle
Debate
Monastic Archaeology
1University of Southampton Monastic Archaeology: Papers on the Study of Medieval Monasteries GrahamKeevillMickAstonTeresaHall OxfordOxbow Books 2001202£35
Adapting to Life Without the Legions
If gold and silver are a measure of wealth, late Roman Britain was very rich. Hoards of coins, jewellery, and plate buried in the late fourth and early fifth centuries show that their owners’ lifestyle was coming to an end as central imperial authority broke down, troops were withdrawn from the island, villas fell into disuse, and towns lost their markets and trade. Raiders threatened by land and sea: Irish from the west, Pictish from the north, …
Debate
(2005). Debate: South Hampshire, ‘East Wessex’ and the Atlas of Rural Settlement in England. Landscape History: Vol. 27, No. 1, pp. 71-75
Dress in Anglo-Saxon England
Dress in Anglo-Saxon England. By GALE R. OWEN-CROCKER (Woodbridge: Boydell P., 2004; pp. xix + 400. £30). ORIGINALLY published in 1986, this book became a key text for anyone studying Anglo-Saxon society, and will be welcomed in this revised and enlarged edition. It is almost twice as long as the first edition, for three reasons. First, new data have appeared, principally as a result of the increase in the publication of archaeological reports, p…
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