Table of Contents

Part I
Introduction
The excavations
The pre-monastic background
The documentary history
Part II: Wearmouth
Interventions and discoveries pre-1959
St Peter's Church
The excavations south of St Peter's Church
The Wearmouth burial ground
The excavated Anglo-Saxon structures
The excavated Late Saxon and Norman structures
The medieval and post-medieval occupation
Part III: Jarrow
Introduction: the Anglo-Saxon period
Excavations around the church
The Jarrow pre-Norman burial ground
The excavated monastic buildings
The Late Anglo-Saxon/Early Medieval
The medieval occupation
The monastic buildings and the Norman and medieval phase 1 occupation
The Later Medieval phase 2 occupation
The boundaries of the medieval cell on the south: Jarrow Slake excavations 1973-1976
The post-Dissolution occupation of the site
Part IV: Discussion section
The changing economy of the sites
The Anglo-Saxon monastic sites of Wearmouth/Jarrow within the context of their time
Conclusions and prospects
Part V: Reference section
Appendices

About the Author

by Rosemary Cramp

Reviews

a scholarly yet readable account' -- Tim Pestell British Archaeology 2006