British Artefact Books
by Brett Hammond

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Early Anglo-Saxon PRICE GUIDE	Middle Saxon & Viking PRICE GUIDE	Late Saxon, Viking & Norman

British Artefacts is a series of books for archaeologists, metal-detectorists, artefact researchers and anyone interested in the history of manufactured articles from Britain. The first volume in the series dealt with the early material from the adventus Saxonum through to the middle of the 7th century when the process of conversion to Christianity was underway.

Volume 1 - Early Anglo-Saxon - covers the arrival of the Germanic tribes in Britain at the time of the fall of Rome and their history through to the conversion to Christianity. The book includers a vast range of object types – from the rare and the exotic to the everyday – offering a thorough coverage of the fascinating material which survives from this period. In addition to the outline history, the book features detailed descriptions of many important new finds which shed light into the gloomier corners of the period: the links between the Roman, Anglo-Saxon and Scandinavian worlds.

Volume 2 - Middle Saxon & Viking - covers the Middle Saxon material, including the impact that the Vikings had on Anglo-Saxon life during the period of the Great Army, the resistance of King Alfred, the Danelaw and its reconquest by Edward the Elder, the Kingdom of York and the formation of England under King Athelstan. This is of course a rich period with influences coming into the country from Ireland, Carolingian France and Scandinavia. In this period Anglo-Saxon chiefdoms became kingdoms, fought each other, fought the Vikings and eventually became a single state under the West Saxon dynasty.