Middle Anglo-Saxon Continental Wares in Norfolk

During the Middle Anglo-Saxon period, the distribution of imported ceramics in Norfolk provides an excellent opportunity to identify settlements and to reconstruct regional economies. An analysis of their distribution suggests that the contrasting distributions might indicate contrasting trading networks comprising unregulated mercantile exchange within the coastal zone and ecclesiastical or secular controlled exchange and consumption further inland. In addition, certain wares may have been considered only a minor valuable within the emergent centre of Norwich, prior to re