Transforming Townscapes

<p><em>Transforming Townscapes</em> details the results of a major archaeological project based on and around the historic town of Wallingford in south Oxfordshire. Founded in the late Saxon period as a key defensive and administrative focus next to the Thames the settlement also contained a substantial royal castle established shortly after the Norman Conquest. The volume traces the pre-town archaeology of Wallingford and then analyses the town’s physical and social evolution assessing defences churches housing markets material culture coinage communications and hinterland.</p>