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ORDINARY MEETING OF FELLOWS
Excavations at Llanbedrgoch: The Development of an Early Medieval Trading Centre in Viking-age Wales by Dr Mark Redknap FSA
Forensic evidence from early medieval settlements within Wales between c. AD 600 and 1100 is thin on the ground, as are typologies of material culture within the Welsh kingdoms during this period. The 1994 – 2012 excavations undertaken by Amgueddfa Cymru at Llanbedrgoch on Anglesey produced an exceptional archaeological sequence of evolving settlement strategically located on the Irish Sea, alongside rich evidence for commerce and evolving fashions through dress accessories and assemblages relating to household and personal equipment, new data on textile production and early medieval metalworking, faunal and human remains.
Post-excavation analysis now offers new evidence-based perspectives on the heartland of the kingdom of Gwynedd during a period of expansion which forced rulers of southern kingdoms to seek protection from Alfred the Great. The dated sequences offer a model, albeit a rare one, for settlement in transition between the fourth and eleventh centuries in north-west Wales and benchmarks for settlement morphology, building forms and changing material culture against which future archaeological discoveries will be able to be measured.
Dr Mark Redknap FSA is an Honorary Research Fellow at Amgueddfa Cymu, having retired in 2023 as Head of Collections and Research of its Department of History & Archaeology. He started as Assistant Curator, Passmore Edwards Museum, Stratford, London (1983-1988) and became Curator of Medieval and Later Archaeology at the National Museum of Wales in 1988. His fieldwork and publications cover terrestrial and underwater archaeology (most recently Wales and the Sea with Alan Aberg and Sian Rees and Llangorse crannog with Alan Lane) and include a corpus on the late Roman and early medieval Mayen pottery industry at Mayen in the Eifel, early medieval inscribed stones and stone sculpture, post-Roman ceramics and metalwork from Wales.
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