London : Archetype Publications for the Archaeological Leather Group, 1998.

ix, 101 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references.

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

"This book is compiled from papers presented at a symposium ... which took place in Oxford in September 1995."--Foreword.

Leather industry and trade -- History.

Fur trade -- History.

Cameron, Esther A. (Esther Anita)

Archaeological Leather Group.

1873132514

9781873132517