ABSTRACT
INTRODUCTION – Materials: stone, turf and timber – Iron Age prelude – Roman prelude – Round and rectangular – A FIELD TRIP – Portmahomack – Yeavering – Yarnton – York – Debrief – Formative 1 5th–7th century – Family forts in the north – Atlantic zone – Irish Sea zone – Up the glens – The Pictish house – Reoccupation and rectangularity – In the west – Northumbria – East and south – The English repertoire in Formative 1 – The early English sequence – Formative 2 7th–9th century – The monastic movement, magnate farms and the wics – North and west: the monastic movement – In Scotland – In Pictland – In the borders – Northumbria – Wearmouth and Jarrow–Materiality of monasticism in north Britain – East and south: magnate farms, markets and wics – Informal markets – Did the English have monasteries? – Wics – Formative 3 9th to 11th century – The Viking impact – Country estates – The gestation of towns – Development of the burh – Going north Origins of the burh – Comparanda coda Contemporary sequences in Ireland and Scandinavia – Continental analogies for settlement in Britain (mainly south and east) – Reflections – Conclusions – Critique.
