Helena Hamerow is Professor of Early Medieval Archaeology at the School of Archaeology, University of Oxford. Her many publications include Rural Settlements and Society in Anglo-Saxon England (OUP 2012) and with D. Hinton and S. Crawford (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology (OUP 2011).Mark McKerracher is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the School of Archaeology, University of Oxford. His publications include Anglo-Saxon Crops and Weeds: A Case Study in Quantitative Archaeobotany (Archaeopress 2019) and Farming Transformed in Anglo-Saxon England: Agriculture in the Long Eighth Century (Windgather Press 2018).

'This collection of excellent papers also presents the initial results of the FeedSax project... By examining direct evidence from archaeological remains this work is an attempt to break the impasse regarding long debated questions on how, when, and why these transformations occurred.'AgHR 72.I reviews

• Part I: Unpacking the ‘mouldboard plough package’ Chapter 1. The ‘FeedSax’ Project: Rural Settlements and Farming in Early Medieval England (Helena Hamerow) Chapter 2. Lessons from Laxton, Highgrove and Lorsch: Building arable weed-based models for the investigation of early medieval agriculture in England (Amy Bogaard) Chapter 3. Understanding early medieval crop and animal husbandry through isotopic analysis (Elizabeth Stroud) Chapter 4. Land use in Central, East and Southeast England: arable or pasture? (Emily Forster) Chapter 5. Innovation, technology, and social change: the adoption of the mouldboard plough and its impact on human-animal relationships (Matilda Holmes) Chapter 6. Cattle and tillage in early medieval Europe: first results from the Lauresham Laboratory for Experimental Archaeology, Germany (Claus Kropp) Part II: Revolutions revisited Chapter 7. Prospect and Protect: syntironomy and cereals in early medieval England (Mark McKerracher) Chapter 8. The precursor to the revolution? Current understandings of the Roman agrarian economy of Roman Britain (Lisa Lodwick) Chapter 9. An agro-social revolution in a Mid Saxon village: making sense of the Sedgeford excavations (Neil Faulkner) Chapter 10. Malting, brewing and beer in Anglo-Saxon England: Mid Saxon Sedgeford – a case study (Hannah Caroe) Chapter 11. The ‘cerealization’ of continental North-West Europe, c. 800-1200 (Nicolas Schroeder) Chapter 12. Agriculture, Lords and Landscape in Medieval England (Tom Williamson) Bibliography

Helena Hamerow is Professor of Early Medieval Archaeology at the School of Archaeology, University of Oxford. Her many publications include Rural Settlements and Society in Anglo-Saxon England (OUP 2012) and with D. Hinton and S. Crawford (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology (OUP 2011).Mark McKerracher is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the School of Archaeology, University of Oxford. His publications include Anglo-Saxon Crops and Weeds: A Case Study in Quantitative Archaeobotany (Archaeopress 2019) and Farming Transformed in Anglo-Saxon England: Agriculture in the Long Eighth Century (Windgather Press 2018).

'This collection of excellent papers also presents the initial results of the FeedSax project... By examining direct evidence from archaeological remains this work is an attempt to break the impasse regarding long debated questions on how, when, and why these transformations occurred.'AgHR 72.I reviews

• Part I: Unpacking the ‘mouldboard plough package’ Chapter 1. The ‘FeedSax’ Project: Rural Settlements and Farming in Early Medieval England (Helena Hamerow) Chapter 2. Lessons from Laxton, Highgrove and Lorsch: Building arable weed-based models for the investigation of early medieval agriculture in England (Amy Bogaard) Chapter 3. Understanding early medieval crop and animal husbandry through isotopic analysis (Elizabeth Stroud) Chapter 4. Land use in Central, East and Southeast England: arable or pasture? (Emily Forster) Chapter 5. Innovation, technology, and social change: the adoption of the mouldboard plough and its impact on human-animal relationships (Matilda Holmes) Chapter 6. Cattle and tillage in early medieval Europe: first results from the Lauresham Laboratory for Experimental Archaeology, Germany (Claus Kropp) Part II: Revolutions revisited Chapter 7. Prospect and Protect: syntironomy and cereals in early medieval England (Mark McKerracher) Chapter 8. The precursor to the revolution? Current understandings of the Roman agrarian economy of Roman Britain (Lisa Lodwick) Chapter 9. An agro-social revolution in a Mid Saxon village: making sense of the Sedgeford excavations (Neil Faulkner) Chapter 10. Malting, brewing and beer in Anglo-Saxon England: Mid Saxon Sedgeford – a case study (Hannah Caroe) Chapter 11. The ‘cerealization’ of continental North-West Europe, c. 800-1200 (Nicolas Schroeder) Chapter 12. Agriculture, Lords and Landscape in Medieval England (Tom Williamson) Bibliography

Helena Hamerow is Professor of Early Medieval Archaeology at the School of Archaeology, University of Oxford. Her many publications include Rural Settlements and Society in Anglo-Saxon England (OUP 2012) and with D. Hinton and S. Crawford (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology (OUP 2011).Mark McKerracher is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the School of Archaeology, University of Oxford. His publications include Anglo-Saxon Crops and Weeds: A Case Study in Quantitative Archaeobotany (Archaeopress 2019) and Farming Transformed in Anglo-Saxon England: Agriculture in the Long Eighth Century (Windgather Press 2018).

'This collection of excellent papers also presents the initial results of the FeedSax project... By examining direct evidence from archaeological remains this work is an attempt to break the impasse regarding long debated questions on how, when, and why these transformations occurred.'AgHR 72.I reviews

• Part I: Unpacking the ‘mouldboard plough package’ Chapter 1. The ‘FeedSax’ Project: Rural Settlements and Farming in Early Medieval England (Helena Hamerow) Chapter 2. Lessons from Laxton, Highgrove and Lorsch: Building arable weed-based models for the investigation of early medieval agriculture in England (Amy Bogaard) Chapter 3. Understanding early medieval crop and animal husbandry through isotopic analysis (Elizabeth Stroud) Chapter 4. Land use in Central, East and Southeast England: arable or pasture? (Emily Forster) Chapter 5. Innovation, technology, and social change: the adoption of the mouldboard plough and its impact on human-animal relationships (Matilda Holmes) Chapter 6. Cattle and tillage in early medieval Europe: first results from the Lauresham Laboratory for Experimental Archaeology, Germany (Claus Kropp) Part II: Revolutions revisited Chapter 7. Prospect and Protect: syntironomy and cereals in early medieval England (Mark McKerracher) Chapter 8. The precursor to the revolution? Current understandings of the Roman agrarian economy of Roman Britain (Lisa Lodwick) Chapter 9. An agro-social revolution in a Mid Saxon village: making sense of the Sedgeford excavations (Neil Faulkner) Chapter 10. Malting, brewing and beer in Anglo-Saxon England: Mid Saxon Sedgeford – a case study (Hannah Caroe) Chapter 11. The ‘cerealization’ of continental North-West Europe, c. 800-1200 (Nicolas Schroeder) Chapter 12. Agriculture, Lords and Landscape in Medieval England (Tom Williamson) Bibliography