Leather and fur
Subtitle: aspects of early medieval trade and technology
By: edited by Esther Cameron
Contributors: Archaeological Leather Group
Publisher: Archetype Publications for the Archaeological Leather Group
Published: 1998
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 101
Subjects: Leather industry and trade; Fur trade; History
Notes: "This book is compiled from papers presented at a symposium ...  which took place in Oxford in September 1995."--Foreword.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Leather working processes  -- Roy Thomson; title: Hides, horns and bones : animals and interdependent industries in the early urban context  -- Arthur MacGregor; title: The search for Anglo-Saxon skin garments and the documentary evidence  -- Gale R. Owen-Crocker; title: Pre-conquest leather on English book-bindings, arms and armour, AD400-1100  -- Esther Cameron; title: The leather finds from Rouen and Saint-Denis, France  -- Véronique Montembault; title: Trading in fur, from classical antiquity to the Early Middle Ages  -- James Howard-Johnston; title: Animal bones from the Viking town pf Birka, Sweden  -- Bengt Wigh; title: The British beaver - fur, fact and fantasy -- James A. Spriggs.