Assembly Mounds in the Danelaw: Place-name and Archaeological Evidence in the Historic Landscape
Alexis Tudor Skinner|Sarah Semple
The mound as a focus for early medieval assembly is found widely throughout Northern Europe in the first millennium AD. Some have argued such features are evidence of practices situated around places ancestral importance, others that an elite need legitimate power drove adoptions. Elsewhere purpose-built mounds suggests they were intrinsic to staging events at and could be manufactured if needed. This paper builds on results presented Ph.D. thesis author. Here we take up issue meeting mounds, focusing their role sites Danelaw. region northern eastern England was documented 11th century area subject conquest colonization from Scandinavia 9th beyond. county Yorkshire forms case study within which explore use purposes, types monuments selected, origins these activity them, finally possible Scandinavian influences region.
Journal of The North Atlantic|Durham Research Online (Durham University)|Durham Research Online (Durham University)