Object and Economy in Medieval Winchester: 1-2 (Winchester Studies, 7.2)

Over six thousand objects were recovered during the Winchester excavations of 1961 to 1971 - by far the most extensive corpus of stratified and datable medieval objects yet presented from a single city.Martin Biddle and the team of eighty-three contributors assembled by the Winchester Research Unit have used this material to investigate not only the industries and arts, but the economic, cultural, and social life of medieval Winchester.Their findings are being published in two parts: the first part, by Katherine Barclay, will deal with the pottery remains; and this second part in two volumes by Martin Biddle covers all the objects from the finest products of the Anglo-Saxon goldsmith’s skill to the iron tenter-hooks of the cloth industry.Martin Biddle’s study of the objects identifies change through time, and traces variation across the broad social scale - from cottage to palace - represented in the excavated sites.Using the objects as evidence for the economy of the medieval city, it