Stuart Brooke
Biographic Data
| ID | 252412 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stuart Brooke |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stuart |
| FAMILY NAME | Brooke |
| SIGNATURE | BROOKE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Museum of London Archaeology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1124-4890 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 39 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The UCL Institute of Archaeology Field School 2024
The afterlife of Roman roads in England
Geography and Sources
The second chapter describes the physical character of the study area in detail as a framework for understanding the analysis supplied in the chapters to follow. It also sets out the main sources drawn upon in the book, notably the physical remains of archaeology and the fabric of the historic landscape itself, as well as documentary sources such as Anglo-Saxon charter bounds, manorial records, deeds, legal records, and maps, which yield data abo…
The Early Modern Period, 1530–1650
The final main chapter looks at the early modern period, assessing how far it saw a ‘Reformation of the landscape’ and a secularization and commodification of the way land was valued as a resource. It is argued that, as earlier, a group sense of attachment to place was strongest in vibrant, socially ‘open’ settlements with considerable shared spaces, the kind of settlements found mainly in the vale part of the hundred. Village social space is exa…
Peasant perceptions of landscape Ewelme hundred, South Oxfordshire, 500-1650
This volume marks a change in the areas of landscape history and the history of everyday life, offering a sustained analysis of how ordinary medieval and early modern people experienced and perceived their material environment and constructed their identities in relation to the places they lived, focussing on the area of Ewelme hundred
Theatres of Closure
Inhumation burials are recorded in Britain and Europe during excavations in a standardized way, especially graves of early medieval date. Just a limited number of attributes are usually foregrounded and these mainly concern skeletal identification, the grave plan and, when a burial is furnished, a list of objects, particularly metalwork, as well as occasional reference to burial structures, if present. In this paper, we argue that concealed withi…
Necrogeography and necroscapes
Archaeologists work with a wealth of mortuary evidence — site-based, artefactual, bioarchaeological and monumental — reflecting the spatial agency of the dead both above and below ground. Necrogeog
Searching for the territorial origins of England
When the Normans arrived in England in AD 1066 they found a kingdom divided into a distinctive and complicated administrative geography. In compiling Domesday Book, the great survey of holdings and liabilities over much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086, the assessors grouped information firstly into 'shires'-districts that are in many cases the precursors of modern counties-and then into smaller divisions such as hundreds, wapentak…
Transport networks and towns in Roman and early medieval England
Interpreting Rock-Cut Grave Cemeteries
EXCAVATION AT SÃO GENS (Guarda district) in central Portugal has revealed an early medieval rock-cut grave cemetery and settlement, along with Roman and prehistoric evidence. The site presents an exceptionally rich palimpsest of archaeological monuments. This paper reviews the findings and seeks to address the problem of interpreting rock-cut grave cemeteries, by describing a spatial analytical methodology that draws on comparisons with early med…
Explaining Anglo-Saxon military efficiency
The importance of warfare in Anglo-Saxon England is widely accepted, but the processes by which armies were put in the field are only partially understood, with most discussion focusing on the economic logistics rather than the spatial practicalities of mobilization. Yet such a system underpinned recorded military actions and must have evolved in response to changing military organization in the late Anglo-Saxon period. Through an assessment of d…
Identifying outdoor assembly sites in early medieval England
Venues of outdoor assembly are an important type of archaeological site. Using the example of early medieval (Anglo-Saxon; 5th–11th centuries a.d.) meeting places in England we describe a new multidisciplinary method for identifying and characterizing such sites. This method employs place name studies, field survey, and phenomenological approaches such as viewshed, sound-mark, and landscape character recording. While each site may comprise a uniq…
Landscapes of Defence in Early Medieval Europe
Beyond the Burghal Hidage
Takes the study of Anglo-Saxon civil defence away from traditional historical and archaeological fields, and uses an interdisciplinary approach to examine warfare and public responses to organised violence through their impact on the landscape.
Monumentalising the political landscape
This paper outlines the place-name, archaeological and topographical evidence for a special class of Anglo-Saxon open-air assembly site, which we call a ‘hanging promontory’. Discussion of a series of these sites serves to describe the main characteristics of the class as well as their geographical distribution. Consideration is given to the possible functions and dating of the use of hanging promontories. In conclusion, comparisons are drawn wit…
Governance at the Anglo-Scandinavian Interface
It is a commonplace notion of Anglo-Saxon studies that by the 11th century, and perhaps very much earlier, English shires were subdivided into administrative territories known as “hundreds” or “wapentakes”. These units consisted of groups of vills brought together for fiscal, judicial, and other purposes, and were commonly named after their meeting-places—“moots”. Both these meeting-places and the administrative territories to which they belonged…
Outside the gate
Many aspects of English early medieval (Anglo-Saxon) legal landscapes can be discerned in archaeological and toponymic evidence, ranging from the locations of legislative councils and judicial assemblies to sites of capital punishment. Among the corpus of such sites a striking group can be detected at the periphery of urban spaces. Gates into a number of towns appear to have functioned as legislative meeting-places, and even gave their names to s…
Asked – the Anglo-Saxon Kent Electronic Database
The dataset covers the burial records from excavation of 3500 people and their associated artefacts from 120 cemetery sites in Kent, southern England, from the period AD 400–700. It was assembled to facilitate the respective PhD research programmes of the authors, using published, unpublished and grey literature sources. It was made publicly available in 2008 via the Archaeology Data Service as a Special Collection and has had regular downloads t…
Documenting the dead
The fu nerary remains fr om east Ke nt constitute an important corpus of early Anglo-Saxon material, the recent reassessment of which has significantly advanced our understanding of Anglo Saxon communities in Ke nt
The Origins of Political Order and the Anglo-Saxon State
How do ordered political societies come about – and what can archaeology offer to the debate? New research by a team at the UCL Institute of Archaeology is investigating the origins of English governance by exploring the impact on landscape of legal structures, law and order, and places of political assembly. Far from being shadowy and elusive, we argue that there is much that land-scape archaeology can provide to understand the ways in which pre…
The Origins of Political Order and the Anglo-Saxon State
Monuments and Minds
Monuments and Minds: Monument Re-use in Scandinavia in the Second Half of the First Millennium A.D.." European Journal of Archaeology, 13(1), pp. 130–131
Walking with Anglo-Saxons
Boat-rivets in Graves in pre-Viking Kent
THE IDENTIFICATION of a number of clench-nails and roves in Anglo-Saxon cemeteries suggest the deliberate deposition of boat fragments and tokens in burial. The distribution of this practice, centred on 6th- to early 7th-century Kent, contrasts with that of the more commonly discussed form of boat-burial known particularly from 7th-century East Anglia. In this paper the characteristics of this burial rite are considered from a number of identifie…
Documenting the dead
Necrogeography and necroscapes
Archaeologists work with a wealth of mortuary evidence — site-based, artefactual, bioarchaeological and monumental — reflecting the spatial agency of the dead both above and below ground. Necrogeog
Identifying outdoor assembly sites in early medieval England
Venues of outdoor assembly are an important type of archaeological site. Using the example of early medieval (Anglo-Saxon; 5th–11th centuries a.d.) meeting places in England we describe a new multidisciplinary method for identifying and characterizing such sites. This method employs place name studies, field survey, and phenomenological approaches such as viewshed, sound-mark, and landscape character recording. While each site may comprise a uniq…
Governance at the Anglo-Scandinavian Interface
It is a commonplace notion of Anglo-Saxon studies that by the 11th century, and perhaps very much earlier, English shires were subdivided into administrative territories known as “hundreds” or “wapentakes”. These units consisted of groups of vills brought together for fiscal, judicial, and other purposes, and were commonly named after their meeting-places—“moots”. Both these meeting-places and the administrative territories to which they belonged…
Monumentalising the political landscape
This paper outlines the place-name, archaeological and topographical evidence for a special class of Anglo-Saxon open-air assembly site, which we call a ‘hanging promontory’. Discussion of a series of these sites serves to describe the main characteristics of the class as well as their geographical distribution. Consideration is given to the possible functions and dating of the use of hanging promontories. In conclusion, comparisons are drawn wit…
Outside the gate
Many aspects of English early medieval (Anglo-Saxon) legal landscapes can be discerned in archaeological and toponymic evidence, ranging from the locations of legislative councils and judicial assemblies to sites of capital punishment. Among the corpus of such sites a striking group can be detected at the periphery of urban spaces. Gates into a number of towns appear to have functioned as legislative meeting-places, and even gave their names to s…
Boat-rivets in Graves in pre-Viking Kent
THE IDENTIFICATION of a number of clench-nails and roves in Anglo-Saxon cemeteries suggest the deliberate deposition of boat fragments and tokens in burial. The distribution of this practice, centred on 6th- to early 7th-century Kent, contrasts with that of the more commonly discussed form of boat-burial known particularly from 7th-century East Anglia. In this paper the characteristics of this burial rite are considered from a number of identifie…
Peasant perceptions of landscape Ewelme hundred, South Oxfordshire, 500-1650
This volume marks a change in the areas of landscape history and the history of everyday life, offering a sustained analysis of how ordinary medieval and early modern people experienced and perceived their material environment and constructed their identities in relation to the places they lived, focussing on the area of Ewelme hundred
Theatres of Closure
Inhumation burials are recorded in Britain and Europe during excavations in a standardized way, especially graves of early medieval date. Just a limited number of attributes are usually foregrounded and these mainly concern skeletal identification, the grave plan and, when a burial is furnished, a list of objects, particularly metalwork, as well as occasional reference to burial structures, if present. In this paper, we argue that concealed withi…
Transport networks and towns in Roman and early medieval England
Monuments and Minds
Monuments and Minds: Monument Re-use in Scandinavia in the Second Half of the First Millennium A.D.." European Journal of Archaeology, 13(1), pp. 130–131
The Kent Anglo-Saxon Emporia Project (Kasep)
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Reflections on “The Archaeology of Inland Markets, Fairs and ‘Productive Sites’ c.650-850”, Worcester College, Oxford, 15th-17th December 2000
Current interest in Middle Anglo-Saxon (c.CE 650-850) settlement topography, economics and archaeology is being reflected in a number of recently published papers.Former archaeological and theoretical foci on the large semi-or proto-urban trading settlements, known generically as either wics or emporia, such as have been located at London (Lundenwic), Ipswich, Saxon Southampton (Hamwic) and York (Eoforwic), have shifted to include the regional hi…
Documenting the dead
Walking with Anglo-Saxons
Boat-rivets in Graves in pre-Viking Kent
THE IDENTIFICATION of a number of clench-nails and roves in Anglo-Saxon cemeteries suggest the deliberate deposition of boat fragments and tokens in burial. The distribution of this practice, centred on 6th- to early 7th-century Kent, contrasts with that of the more commonly discussed form of boat-burial known particularly from 7th-century East Anglia. In this paper the characteristics of this burial rite are considered from a number of identifie…
Monuments and Minds
Monuments and Minds: Monument Re-use in Scandinavia in the Second Half of the First Millennium A.D.." European Journal of Archaeology, 13(1), pp. 130–131
The Origins of Political Order and the Anglo-Saxon State
How do ordered political societies come about – and what can archaeology offer to the debate? New research by a team at the UCL Institute of Archaeology is investigating the origins of English governance by exploring the impact on landscape of legal structures, law and order, and places of political assembly. Far from being shadowy and elusive, we argue that there is much that land-scape archaeology can provide to understand the ways in which pre…
The Origins of Political Order and the Anglo-Saxon State
Asked – the Anglo-Saxon Kent Electronic Database
The dataset covers the burial records from excavation of 3500 people and their associated artefacts from 120 cemetery sites in Kent, southern England, from the period AD 400–700. It was assembled to facilitate the respective PhD research programmes of the authors, using published, unpublished and grey literature sources. It was made publicly available in 2008 via the Archaeology Data Service as a Special Collection and has had regular downloads t…
Documenting the dead
The fu nerary remains fr om east Ke nt constitute an important corpus of early Anglo-Saxon material, the recent reassessment of which has significantly advanced our understanding of Anglo Saxon communities in Ke nt
Landscapes of Defence in Early Medieval Europe
Beyond the Burghal Hidage
Takes the study of Anglo-Saxon civil defence away from traditional historical and archaeological fields, and uses an interdisciplinary approach to examine warfare and public responses to organised violence through their impact on the landscape.
Monumentalising the political landscape
This paper outlines the place-name, archaeological and topographical evidence for a special class of Anglo-Saxon open-air assembly site, which we call a ‘hanging promontory’. Discussion of a series of these sites serves to describe the main characteristics of the class as well as their geographical distribution. Consideration is given to the possible functions and dating of the use of hanging promontories. In conclusion, comparisons are drawn wit…
Governance at the Anglo-Scandinavian Interface
It is a commonplace notion of Anglo-Saxon studies that by the 11th century, and perhaps very much earlier, English shires were subdivided into administrative territories known as “hundreds” or “wapentakes”. These units consisted of groups of vills brought together for fiscal, judicial, and other purposes, and were commonly named after their meeting-places—“moots”. Both these meeting-places and the administrative territories to which they belonged…
Outside the gate
Many aspects of English early medieval (Anglo-Saxon) legal landscapes can be discerned in archaeological and toponymic evidence, ranging from the locations of legislative councils and judicial assemblies to sites of capital punishment. Among the corpus of such sites a striking group can be detected at the periphery of urban spaces. Gates into a number of towns appear to have functioned as legislative meeting-places, and even gave their names to s…
Explaining Anglo-Saxon military efficiency
The importance of warfare in Anglo-Saxon England is widely accepted, but the processes by which armies were put in the field are only partially understood, with most discussion focusing on the economic logistics rather than the spatial practicalities of mobilization. Yet such a system underpinned recorded military actions and must have evolved in response to changing military organization in the late Anglo-Saxon period. Through an assessment of d…
Identifying outdoor assembly sites in early medieval England
Venues of outdoor assembly are an important type of archaeological site. Using the example of early medieval (Anglo-Saxon; 5th–11th centuries a.d.) meeting places in England we describe a new multidisciplinary method for identifying and characterizing such sites. This method employs place name studies, field survey, and phenomenological approaches such as viewshed, sound-mark, and landscape character recording. While each site may comprise a uniq…
Transport networks and towns in Roman and early medieval England
Interpreting Rock-Cut Grave Cemeteries
EXCAVATION AT SÃO GENS (Guarda district) in central Portugal has revealed an early medieval rock-cut grave cemetery and settlement, along with Roman and prehistoric evidence. The site presents an exceptionally rich palimpsest of archaeological monuments. This paper reviews the findings and seeks to address the problem of interpreting rock-cut grave cemeteries, by describing a spatial analytical methodology that draws on comparisons with early med…
Searching for the territorial origins of England
When the Normans arrived in England in AD 1066 they found a kingdom divided into a distinctive and complicated administrative geography. In compiling Domesday Book, the great survey of holdings and liabilities over much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086, the assessors grouped information firstly into 'shires'-districts that are in many cases the precursors of modern counties-and then into smaller divisions such as hundreds, wapentak…
Theatres of Closure
Inhumation burials are recorded in Britain and Europe during excavations in a standardized way, especially graves of early medieval date. Just a limited number of attributes are usually foregrounded and these mainly concern skeletal identification, the grave plan and, when a burial is furnished, a list of objects, particularly metalwork, as well as occasional reference to burial structures, if present. In this paper, we argue that concealed withi…
Necrogeography and necroscapes
Archaeologists work with a wealth of mortuary evidence — site-based, artefactual, bioarchaeological and monumental — reflecting the spatial agency of the dead both above and below ground. Necrogeog
Geography and Sources
The second chapter describes the physical character of the study area in detail as a framework for understanding the analysis supplied in the chapters to follow. It also sets out the main sources drawn upon in the book, notably the physical remains of archaeology and the fabric of the historic landscape itself, as well as documentary sources such as Anglo-Saxon charter bounds, manorial records, deeds, legal records, and maps, which yield data abo…
The Early Modern Period, 1530–1650
The final main chapter looks at the early modern period, assessing how far it saw a ‘Reformation of the landscape’ and a secularization and commodification of the way land was valued as a resource. It is argued that, as earlier, a group sense of attachment to place was strongest in vibrant, socially ‘open’ settlements with considerable shared spaces, the kind of settlements found mainly in the vale part of the hundred. Village social space is exa…
Peasant perceptions of landscape Ewelme hundred, South Oxfordshire, 500-1650
This volume marks a change in the areas of landscape history and the history of everyday life, offering a sustained analysis of how ordinary medieval and early modern people experienced and perceived their material environment and constructed their identities in relation to the places they lived, focussing on the area of Ewelme hundred
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