Major sites such as Hamwic and Dorestad typically dominate any discussion of early medieval trade and emporia - this study is altogether atypical in many ways. Comprising nineteen papers taken from a conference held at Worcester College, Oxford in 2000, the focus here is very much on the smaller, more rural trading centres and inland markets of Northern Europe. The contributors reflect very different approaches to the material, including studies that examine up-to-date historical, archaeological and numismatic evidence from Britain, Denmark, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden dating from the 7th to 9th century. The authors consider the rather controversial use of metal-detecting in identifying and defining new sites and patterns of interaction and exchange, highlighting its positive contribution. Contributors include Mark Blackburn, David Griffiths, Lars Jorgensen, Michael Metcalf, Julian D Richards, Peter Sawyer and Astrid Tummuscheit.

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Contributors
• Abbreviations
• Preface
• 1 Introduction: Early Medieval Markets and ‘Productive’ Sites
• I History, Numismatics and the Early Medieval Economy
  • 2 Production and Distribution in Early and Middle Anglo-Saxon England
  • 3 ‘Productive’ Sites and the Pattern of Coin Loss in England, 600–1180
  • 4 Variations in the Composition of the Currency at Different Places in England
  • 5 The Hinterlands of Three Southern English Emporia: Some Common Themes
• II Trading and ‘Productive’ Sites in the British Isles
  • 6 Markets and ‘Productive’ Sites: A View from Western Britain
  • 7 Markets Around the Solent: Unravelling a ‘Productive’ Site on the Isle of Wight
  • 8 The Early Anglo-Saxon Framework for Middle Anglo-Saxon Economics: The Case of East Kent
  • 9 Exceptional Finds, Exceptional Sites? Barham and Coddenham, Suffolk
  • 10 Six Middle Anglo-Saxon Sites in West Norfolk
  • 11 The Afterlife of ‘Productive’ Sites in East Anglia
  • 12 Middle Anglo-Saxon Lincolnshire: An Emerging Picture
  • 13 The Anglian and Anglo-Scandinavian Sites at Cottam, East Yorkshire
• III Markets and Settlements on the Early Medieval Continent
  • 14 Markets and Fairs in Norway and Sweden Between the Eighth and Sixteenth Centuries
  • 15 Manor and Market at Lake Tissø in the Sixth to Eleventh Centuries: The Danish ‘Productive’ Sites
  • 16 Groß Strömkendorf: A Market Site of the Eighth Century on the Baltic Sea Coast
  • 17 Tjitsma, Wijnaldum: An Early Medieval Production Site in the Netherlands
  • 18 The Fate of the Ports of the Lower Seine Valley at the End of the Ninth Century
  • 19 San Vincenzo in the Making: The Discovery of an Early Medieval Production Site on the East Bank of the Volturno
• Bibliography