Pecsaetna People Of The Anglosaxon Peak District Phil Sidebottom by Phil Sidebottom 9781911188681, 1911188682, B0B2XB7SWT instant download after payment.

"This book is intended to pull together our current knowledge of the lost' group of people called the Pecsaetna (literally, meaning the Peak Sitters') by synthesising more recent historical and archaeological research towards a better understanding of their activities, territory and identity. This group of people is shrouded in the mists of the so-called Dark Ages' and are only known to us by the chance survival of less than a handful of documents. Since the mid-20th century, valuable work has been done to identify former Anglo-Saxon estates in the Peak from the analysis of charters and from the Domesday survey, together with recent wider historical analysis. In addition, some have also attempted reconstructions of geographical territories from the Tribal Hidage, the document, which first mentions the Pecsaetna. To this historical analysis can be added further archaeological evidence which ranges from Anglo-Saxon barrow investigation in the limestone Peak District, to studies into the geographical distributions of free-standing stone monuments of the Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Scandinavian periods. It is this latter study that has prompted the writer to attempt this study."
About the Author: Dr Phil Sidebottom is a graduate in Archaeology and Prehistory from the University of Sheffield, subsequently obtaining a PhD from the same institution, researching Anglo-Saxon stone monuments. Dr. Sidebottom has since specialised in landscape archaeology and heritage management, including ten years lecturing in these subjects at the University of Sheffield. He is also a Corporate Member of The Chartered Institute for Archaeologists (No. 1430), a Vice-President of the Hunter Archaeological Society and Editor of the Transactions of the same society. Along with co-author Prof. Jane Hawkes, Dr. Sidebottom has recently completed the British Academy’s Derbyshire and Staffordshire volume XIII of the Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture (Hawkes and Sidebottom 2018).