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Paperback: 258 pages
Publisher: British Archaeological Reports (1 Jan. 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1841710652
ISBN-13: 978-1841710655
Product Dimensions: 1.3 x 21.6 x 29.8 cm

This study focuses on the sheaths and scabbards of the Anglo-Saxon period, rather than the blades once held within them. Esther Cameron presents a largely technical approach to the study of material from the period of the first Anglo-Saxons in England in the 5th century, through to the 11th century. Alongside a large corpus of examples, she looks at the nature of the material evidence, of skin, leather and wood, and the composition of the materials used, their decomposition and preservation in the archeological record. The wider significance of her findings for Anglo-Saxon archaeology and for the study of organic materials form archaeological contexts in general, are revealed in the final chapter.

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Robert