Anglo-Saxon Stafford. Archaeological Investigations 1954-2004. Field Reports On-line

This archive contains the Field Reports for the Stafford campaign (primarily , comprising the edited surviving evidence for the evaluation and the major excavations together with studies of the artefacts, bones and plant remains. The edited Field Reports include new analyses and reinterpretation by M Carver and take into account work undertaken since 1985, particularly by Debbie Ford (on pottery) and John Darlington (excavations at Stafford castle and town). However, the research undertaken in 1985-90 on the artefacts, animal bone, human bone and plant remains has not been extensively revised or updated, apart from new specialist reports on objects from the "blacksmiths' pit" (F234 in Int 32): by Steve Ashby on the Medieval comb and Cecily Spall on the metalwork. The Stafford results are considered in their national and international context in the Research Report, the monograph Birth of a Borough by Martin Carver (Boydell Press), which may be regarded as the synthesis that accompanies and draws on this archive.