Browse by author
Lookup NU author(s): Dr Duncan WrightORCiD, Dr David Gould, Dr Tim Kinnaird, Dr Michael Shapland, Professor Sam Turner
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0).
The repurposing of earlier sites and monuments is an enduringly popular theme in early medieval archaeology, but in England it has attracted little interest among Late Saxon and early post-Conquest studies. From the tenth century, however, an increasingly prevalent pattern is discernible of secular lords locating their power centres in relation to earlier features. A variety of evidence for such correlations is presented here, demonstrating reuse as an explicit strategy of aspirant lords who developed their private complexes with reference to a wide range of prehistoric, Roman, and earlier medieval antecedents. It is argued that the tumultuous political conditions around the turn of the first millennium intensified elite engagement with material signatures of the past, which they curated in efforts to shape collective memory and buttress their authority.
Author(s): Wright DW, Creighton OH, Gould D, Chaussee S, Kinnaird T, Shapland M, Srivastava A, Turner S
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Early Medieval Europe
Year: 2025
Pages: epub ahead of print
Online publication date: 30/11/2025
Acceptance date: 29/09/2025
Date deposited: 24/09/2025
ISSN (print): 1468-0254
ISSN (electronic): 0963-9462
Publisher: Wiley
URL: https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.70004
DOI: 10.1111/emed.70004
Data Access Statement: The data that support the ?ndings of this study are freely available via the Archaeology Data Service at https://archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/archives/collections/view/1007107/index.cfm, reference number 1007107.
Altmetrics provided by Altmetric
