Markets,<i>Emporia, WICS</i>, and ‘Productive’ Sites: Pre‐viking Trade Centres in Anglo‐Saxon England
Tim Pestell
Abstract This article outlines the workings of those places that acted as arenas for trade and exchange in mid Saxon England, by exploring terms have been applied to them, how modern scholars interpreted recent discoveries may point future research directions. The impact Henri Pirenne's work on stimulating discussion about nature contacts Carolingian social structures has ensured an extensive historiography. Richard Hodges saw kings exerting a high degree control over trade, long-distance contact being utilized politically reciprocal exchanges prestige goods. ‘Productive’ sites are ‘places, whether excavated or metal-detected, produce large quantities coin metalwork finds’. processes Dark Age Economics strove disentangle undoubtedly become more complex nuanced.
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