Proceedings of a Conference to Mark the 25th Anniversary of the Sedgeford Historical and Archaeological Research Project
Edited by Richard Hoggett and Neil Faulkner
Archaeopress (2025). Paperback and digital. 204pp. 245x174mm. ISBN: 9781805830726 (paperback). £40. ISBN: 9781805830733 (eBook). Free via Open Access.
This volume brings together insights from a 2020 conference celebrating 25 years of archaeological work at Sedgeford. Exploring life in the ‘long 8th century’, it highlights new perspectives on agriculture, estate development, trade, and society in Middle Anglo-Saxon Norfolk and its wider European context.
In the 25 years since the Sedgeford Historical and Archaeological Research Project (SHARP) began fieldwork in north-west Norfolk, Sedgeford has emerged as a major site for investigating the agricultural revolution of ‘the long 8th century’. The period between c. AD 650 and 850 saw the consolidation of kingdoms, the rise of the Church, the creation of great estates, the transformation of agriculture, and the development of emporia, craftwork, and long-distance trade in prestige goods. These proceedings present the results of a day conference held in 2020 which reviewed the results of 25 years’ work at Sedgeford in the context of new discoveries and changing ideas about the Middle Anglo-Saxon period in Norfolk, England as a whole and the wider contemporary world.
