Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-viii

List of Illustrations

pp ix-xi

List of tables

pp xii-xii

List of Abbreviations

pp xiii-xiii

Acknowledgements

pp xiv-xiv

Glossary

pp xv-xvi

Preface

pp xvii-xviii

Part I - Background

pp 1-2

Chapter 1 - Introduction

pp 3-42

Chapter 2 - Territoriality in Early Medieval England

pp 43-58

Chapter 3 - Reconstructing Early Medieval Folk Territories

pp 59-84

Part II - The Early Folk Territories

pp 85-86

Chapter 4 - From Early Folk Territory to Domesday Vills: The Rochford Peninsula

pp 87-100

Chapter 5 - Immigration and Integration in the Central Thameside Districts: The Fen District and Havering

pp 101-128

Chapter 6 - The Province of the Middle Saxons

pp 129-144

Chapter 7 - Fringes of the Kingdom: The Eastern Coastal Districts and the Landscape Context of Anglo-Saxon Colonisation

pp 145-170

Chapter 8 - A British Domain: The Central Claylands, Place-Names, Early Medieval Territorial Identity and the -Ingas Question

pp 171-196

Chapter 9 - Another British Domain: The Northern Claylands

pp 197-204

Chapter 10 - And Another British Domain: The Western Districts, and Romanobritish Antecedents of Early Medieval Central Places

pp 205-226

Chapter 11 - Beyond the Northern Frontier

pp 227-238

Part III - Discussion and Analysis

pp 239-240

Chapter 12 - Agriculture and Resource Management

pp 241-276

Chapter 13 - Conclusions

pp 277-294

Appendix 1 - Domesday Population Densities Across the ‘Rochford Peninsula’ Early Folk Territory

pp 295-297

Appendix 2 - Sites Used in the Analysis of Animal Bone Assemblages

pp 298-308

Appendix 3 - Sites Used in the Analysis of Charred Cereal Assemblages

pp 309-314

Bibliography

pp 315-368

Index

pp 369-386