Markets in early medieval Europe : trading and productive sites, 650-850 / edited by Tim Pestell and Katharina Ulmschneider

Includes index

Introduction: Early medieval markets and 'productive' sites / Katharina Ulmschneider and Tim Pestell -- 1. History, numismatics and the early medieval economy : Production and distribution in early and middle Anglo-Saxon England / Mark Blackburn -- 'Productive' sites and the pattern of coin loss in England, 600-1180 / Mark Blackburn -- Variations in the composition of the currency at different places in England / Michael Metcalf -- The Hinterlands of three southern English Emporia: some common themes / Ben Palmer -- 2. Trading and 'productive' sites in the British Isles : Markets and 'productive' sites: a view from western Britain / David Griffiths -- Markets around the Solent: unravelling a 'productive' site on the Isle of Wight / Katharina Ulmschneider -- The early Anglo-Saxon framework for the middle Anglo-Saxon economics: the case of East Kent / Stuart Brookes -- Exceptional finds, exceptional sites? Barham and Coddenham, Suffolk / John Newman -- Six middle Anglo-Saxon sites in West Norfolk / Andrew Rogerson -- The afterlife of 'productive' sites in East Anglia / Tim Pestell -- Middle Anglo-Saxon Lincolnshire: an emerging picture / Kevin Leahy -- The Anglian and Anglo-Scandinavian sites at Cottam, East Yorkshire / Julian D. Richards -- 3. Markets and settlements on the early Medieval continent : Markets and fairs in Norway and Sweden between the eighth and sixteenth centuries / Peter Sawyer -- Manor and market at Lake Tissø in the sixth to eleventh centuries: the Danish 'productive' sites / Lars Jørgensen -- Gross Strömkendorf: a market site of the eighth century on the Baltic Sea Cost / Astrid Tummuscheit -- Tjitsma, Wijnaldum: an early Medieval production site in the Netherlands / Caroline Tulp -- The fate of the ports of the Lower Seine Valley at the end of the ninth century / Jacques Le Maho -- San Vincenzo in the making: the discovery of an early Medieval production site on the east bank of the Volturno / Matthew Moran

The identification of productive sites, mostly through the detection of coins, has increasingly shown how economic and cultural exchange went on not just in coastal ports, but at a myriad of other places, many of them inland