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University of Leicester Archaeological Services

ULAS is an independent professional unit whose expertise covers urban, rural and buildings archaeology of all periods across the Midlands. Find out more...

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School of Archaeology and Ancient History,
University of Leicester, University Road,
Leicester, LE1 7RH

Tel +44 (0)116 252 2611
Fax +44 (0)116 252 5005

Email arch-anchist@le.ac.uk

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Publications

2011 Fluid pasts: archaeology of flow. London, Bloomsbury Academic. More details here

2011 (with N. Christie)‘The archaeology of crossing places: the bridge and ford at Wallingford on the River Thames, England’  In Archäologie der Brücken: Vorgeschichte, Antike, Mittelalter, Neuzeit. Regensburg, Pustet Friedrich Kg, 232-9.

2011 'The weir and flowing earthworks of Bedford' British Archaeology 121 (Nov/Dec issue).

2010 'On the boundary: new perspectives from ethnography of archaeology' in Garrow, D and Yarrow, T (eds) Archaeology and anthropology: understanding differences, exploring similarities. Oxford, Oxbow, 53-68. 

2010 'Beyond human proportions: archaeology of the mega and the nano' in Archaeologies 6.1, 138-149.

2009 'Linking urban townscape with rural landscape: evidence of animal transhumance in the River Ivel valley, Bedfordshire' in Medieval Settlement Research 23 (2008), 22-27.

2009 'Comparing burhs: a Wallingford-Bedford case-study'. In Keats-Rohan K and Roffe D. (eds.) The origins of the Borough of Wallingford: archaeological and historical perspectives. BAR British Series 494. Oxford, Archaeopress, pp77-85

2008 'Excavation of a Romano-British Enclosure Complex at Burton Wold Farm, Burton Latimer' in Northamptonshire Archaeology 35, 27-43

2008 'The Tempsford Project: an interim report' in South Midlands Archaeology 38, 8-16

2007 ‘Double-artefacts: exploring the other side of material culture’ in Vitor Oliviera Jorge and Julian Thomas (eds) Overcoming the Modern Invention of Material Culture. Special issue of Journal of Iberian Archaeology vols 9/10, 89-96.

2007 Chapters on 'Anglo-Saxon and Medieval' and 'Post-Medieval, Industrial and Modern' in Martin Oake et al Bedfordshire Archaeology: Resource Assessment, Research Agenda and Strategy Bedfordshire Archaeology Monograph 9, 87-141.

2006 (edited volume). Ethnographies of Archaeological Practice: Cultural Encounters, Material Transformations Worlds of Archaeology. Lanham, MD USA: Altamira Press.

2006. ‘Changing Landscapes: An Iron Age Enclosure at Stoke Hammond, Buckinghamshire’ in Records of Buckinghamshire 46, 119-148

2004. ‘Recent Archaeological Investigations in Bedford Town Centre: Early Bedford’s Northern Boundary? in Bedfordshire Archaeology 25, 190-200

2003. Acts of Discovery: an ethnography of archaeological practice. BAR International Series 1131. Oxford, Archaeopress

2001. An Iron Age and Romano-British Farmstead at Norse Road, Bedford. In Bedfordshire Archaeology 24, 1-19

Books

Collaborative papers

2010. Wilkinson, IP, Tasker, A, Gouldwell, A, Williams, M, Edgeworth, M, Zalasiewicz, J, and Christie, N. Micropalaeontology reveals the source of building materials for a defensive earthwork (English Civil War?) at Wallingford Castle, Oxfordshire. Journal of Micropalaeontology 29:  87-92. 

2009. Christie N, Edgeworth M, Creighton O, Hamerow H.  'Wallingford: Charting Early Medieval and Medieval Expansion and Contraction' in Medieval Settlement Research 23 (2008), 53-57.

2009. Christie N, Edgeworth M, O'Sullivan D, Taylor J, Hyam A, Speed G, Creighton O, Fradley M, Hamerow H.  The Wallingford Burh to Borough Research Project 2008 :Interim Report. South Midlands Archaeology 39, 63-66.

2009. Creighton, O., Christie, N., Hamerow, H and Edgeworth, M. 'Wallingford' in British Archaeology 35, 27-43

2009. Creighton O, Christie N, Hamerow H and Edgeworth M. New directions in tracing the origins and development of Wallingford'. In Keats-Rohan K and Roffe D. (eds.) The origins of the Borough of Wallingford: archaeological and historical perspectives. BAR British Series 494. Oxford, Archaeopress, 68-76.

2009. Speed G, Christie N, Creighton O, and Edgeworth M.  'Charting Saxon and Medieval Urban Growth and Decay at Wallingford' in Medieval Archaeology 53, 355-363.

Comments

2011 'Excavation as a ground for archaeological knowledge' in Archaeological Dialogues 18:1, 44-6.

2011 'Archaeology and current debate on the Anthropocene'  in Norwegian Archaeological Review 44:1, 59-62.

 Reviews

2010. Review of 'The Materiality of Res Publica' by Colas, D. and Kharkhordin, O. (eds) in Medieval Archaeology 54.

2009. Review of 'Medieval Roads and Tracks' by Hindle, P. in Medieval Archaeology 53, 467-8.

2009. Review of 'Finds Research Group datasheets 1-24 and 25-40'  in Medieval Archaeology 53, 467-8.

2009 Review of 'The Bull-Ring Uncovered' by Patrik, C. and Ratkai, S. in Medieval Settlement Research 23 (2008), 77-78.

2008. Review of 'Thames through Time' by Booth P, Dodd A, Robinson M and Smith A. (eds.) in Medieval Archaeology 52, 389-90.

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