Steve Ashby, FSA, FSA (Scot), FHEA

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• 2023

  A Prehistory of Movement: Tracking Object Mobiity around the Viking-Age North Sea

  Ashby, S. & Leonard, A., 31 Jan 2023, Mobility of Objects Across Boundaries 1000-1700. Wilson, K. & Clark, L. (eds.). Liverpool: Liverpool University Press

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• In the footsteps of Ohthere: biomolecular analysis of early Viking Age hair combs from Hedeby (Haithabu)

  Muñoz-Rodriguez, M., Presslee, S., Mcgrath, K., Hausmann, N., Hilberg, V., Kalmring, S., Holmquist, L., Hendy, J. & Ashby, S. P., 22 Aug 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Antiquity. 97, 395, 16 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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• The Portable Antiquities Scheme and the potential of non-metallic finds: A Viking Comb from Shotley, Suffolk

  Ashby, S., Tomlinson, L., Presslee, S., Hendy, J. R., Bliss, A., Minter, F. & Brock, D., 7 Dec 2023, In: Internet Archaeology. 61, 11.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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• 2022

  Late Iron Age Whaling in Scandinavia

  Hennius, A., Ljungkvist, J., Ashby, S., Hagan, R., Presslee, S., Christensen, T., Peets, J. & Rudolf, G., 19 Dec 2022, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Maritime Archaeology. 22 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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• 2021

  Of pots and porridge: food, cooking, and serving in Old Norse sources

  Ashby, S. & Evans Tang, H. J., 31 Dec 2021, In: Viking and Medieval Scandinavia. 17

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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• 2020

  Crafts and Social Networks in Viking Towns

  Ashby, S. (ed.) & Sindbaek, S. M. (ed.), Jan 2020, Oxbow Books. 288 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Anthology

• Technology: Making things in Medieval Europe

  Ashby, S., 24 Dec 2020, A Cultural History of Objects in the Medieval Age. Semple, S. & J. L. (eds.). Bloomsbury Publishing, (A Cultural History of Objects).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

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• Territorial Division in the Alfred-Guðrum Treaty: A Ninth Century Diplomatic Innovation?

  Ashby, S. & Marriott, A., Apr 2020, In: Apardjon Journal for Scandinavian Studies. 1, p. 22-53 31 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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• 2019

  Dielectric Replica Measurement: A New Technique for Obtaining the Complex Permittivity of Irregularly Shaped Objects

  Robinson, M. P., Fitton, L. C., Little, A. P., Cobb, S. N. F. & Ashby, S. P., Apr 2019, In: Measurement Science and Technology. 30, 4, 12 p., 045902 .

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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• 2018

  DIFFERENT STROKES: JUDICIAL VIOLENCE IN VIKING-AGE ENGLAND AND SCANDINAVIA

  Ashby, S. P. & Ruiter, K., 31 Dec 2018, In: Viking and Medieval Scandinavia. 18, p. 153-184

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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• Pocket Museum: Vikings

  Ashby, S. P. & Leonard, A., 4 Oct 2018, London: Thames and Hudson. 288 p. (Pocket Museum)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• 2017

  Torpel Manor: The Biography of a Landscape

  Ashby, S. P., Gosling, F. & McClain, A. N., 2017, Helpston: Langdyke Countryside Trust. 122 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

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• 2016

  Archaeologies of Hair: The head and its grooming in ancient and contemporary societies

  Ashby, S. P., 21 Nov 2016, In: Internet Archaeology. 42

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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• Archaeologies of Hair: an introduction

  Ashby, S. P., 21 Nov 2016, In: Internet Archaeology. 42

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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• Combs and Contacts: past and future work on society and economy via worked bone artefacts and craft

  Ashby, S. P., 2016, (Accepted/In press) Proceedings of the Viking Congress in Shetland. p. 257-262 6 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

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• Grooming the Face in the Early Middle Ages

  Ashby, S. P., 21 Nov 2016, In: Internet Archaeology. 42

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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• 2015

  Disentangling trade: combs in the North and Irish Seas in the Long Viking Age

  Ashby, S., 23 Dec 2015, Maritime Societies of the Viking and Medieval World. Barrett, J. H. & Gibbon, S-J. (eds.). Maney Publishing, 18

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)

• Everyday Products in the Middle Ages: Crafts, Consumption and the individual in Northern Europe c. AD 800-1600

  Ashby, S., Hansen, G. & Baug, I., Feb 2015, Oxford: Oxbow Books. 352 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

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• 'Hold the Heathen Hammer High’: Representation, Re-enactment and the Construction of ‘Pagan' Heritage

  Ashby, S. P. & Schofield, J., 2015, In: International Journal of Heritage Studies. 21, 5, p. 493-511 19 p.

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• Resistance survey at Torpel Manor Field, July 2014

  McClain, A. N., Ashby, S. & Goodchild, H., 2015, Cambridgeshire Historic Environment Record.

  Research output: Book/Report › Other report

• Urban Networks and Arctic Outlands: Craft Specialists and Reindeer Antler in Viking Towns

  Ashby, S. P., Coutu, A. N. & Sindbaek, S. M., 1 Apr 2015, In: European Journal of Archaeology. 18, 4, p. 679–704 26 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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• What really caused the Viking Age? The social content of raiding and exploration

  Ashby, S., 2015, In: Archaeological Dialogues. 22, 1, p. 89-106 17 p.

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• 'With staff in hand, and dog at heel’? What did it mean to be an ‘itinerant’ artisan?

  Ashby, S. P., 2015, Everyday Products in the Middle Ages: Crafts, Consumption and the Individual in Northern Europe c. AD 1000-1600. Hansen, G., Ashby, S. P. & Baug, I. (eds.). Oxford: Oxbow Books, p. 11-27 17 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

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• 2014

  Arctic resources and urban networks

  Ashby, S., 2014, The World in the Viking Age. Sindbaek, S. (ed.). Roskilde: The Viking Ship Museum, p. 36-39 4 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• A Viking Way of Life: Combs and Communities in Britain and Scandinavia, c. AD 800-1100

  Ashby, S., 23 Jan 2014, Stroud: Amberley. 192 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Cottam, Cowlam and environs: an Anglo-Saxon estate on the Yorkshire Wolds

  Richards, J. D., Ashby, S., Austin, T., Haldenby, D., Hummler, M., Jelley, E., Richardson, J., Roskams, S. & Niven, K., 2014, In: The Archaeological Journal. 170, 1, p. 201-271 71 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Gradiometry survey at Torpel Manor Field, August 2013

  McClain, A. N., Ashby, S., Goodchild, H. & Saul, H. A., 2014, Cambridgeshire Historic Environment Record.

  Research output: Book/Report › Other report

• Searching for Scandinavians in pre-Viking Scotland: Molecular fingerprinting of Early Medieval combs

  Von Holstein, I. C. C., Ashby, S., Van Doorn, N. L., Sachs, S., Meirai, M., Barnes, I., Brundle, A., Collins, M. J. & Buckley, M., Jan 2014, In: Journal of archaeological science. 41, p. 1-6 6 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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• Technologies of appearance: Hair behaviour in early medieval Europe

  Ashby, S., 2014, In: The Archaeological Journal. 171, p. 151-184 34 p.

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• 2013

  An earthwork survey at Torpel Manor Field, Cambridgeshire

  McClain, A. N., Ashby, S. & Fradley, M., 2013, Cambridgeshire Historic Environment Record.

  Research output: Book/Report › Other report

• Making a Good Comb: Mercantile Identity in 9th to 11th-century England.

  Ashby, S., 2013, Everyday Life in Viking Towns: Social Approaches to Towns in England and Ireland c. 800-1100. Ten Harkel, L. & Hadley, D. (eds.). Oxford: Oxbow Books, p. 193-208

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)

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• Some comments on the identification of species in worked antler

  Ashby, S., Dec 2013, From These Bare Bones: Raw materials and the study of worked osseous materials. Choyke, A. & O'Connor, S. (eds.). Oxford: Oxbow Books, p. 208-222

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)

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• The Deer and the Viking

  Ashby, S., May 2013, In: Deer (Journal of the British Deer Society). 16, 7, p. 18-21 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

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• 2012

  A Study in Regionality: Hair Combs and Bone/Antler Craft in the Northern Danelaw

  Ashby, S., 2012, Early Medieval Northumbria: Kingdoms and Communities, AD 450-1100. David A, P. & Sam, T. (eds.). Turnhout: Brepols, p. 303-319 (Studies in the Early Middle Ages).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Evidence of exchange networks: the combs and other worked skeletal material.

  Ashby, S. & Batey, C. E., Oct 2012, Being an Islander: Production and Identity at Quoygrew, Orkney, AD 900-1600. Barrett, J. H. (ed.). Cambridge: McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, p. 229-243

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

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• 2011

  An atlas of medieval combs from northern Europe

  Ashby, S., Oct 2011, In: Internet Archaeology. 30, n/a, p. online - n/a

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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• The Comb (Find 103)

  Ashby, S., 2011, The Later Anglo-Saxon Settlement at Bishopstone: A Downland Manor in the Making. Gabor, T. (ed.). York: Council for British Archaeology, (CBA Research Report).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• The Language of the Combmaker: Interpreting Complexity in Viking-Age Industry

  Ashby, S., Nov 2011, Written in Bones: Studies on technological and social contexts of past faunal skeletal remains. Baron, J. & Kufel-Diakowska, B. (eds.). Wroclaw, Poland: University of Wroclaw, p. 9-24

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed)

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• 2010

  Comment on the comb

  Ashby, S., 2010, The Birth of a Borough. An Archaeological Study of Anglo-Saxon Stafford. Woodbridge. Carver, M. O. H. (ed.). Boydell & Brewer, p. 116-117

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Searching with a fine-toothed comb: Combs for Humans and Horses on the PAS database

  Ashby, S. & Bolton, A., 2010, A Decade of Discovery: Proceedings of the Portable Antiquities Scheme Conference 2007. Worrell, S., Egan, G., Naylor, J., Leahy, K. & Lewis, J. (eds.). BAR Publishing, p. 235-240 6 p. (British Archaeological Reports, British Series; vol. 520).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

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• The Comb

  Ashby, S., 2010

  Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site
• 2009

  Comb fragment

  Ashby, S., 2009

  Research output: Non-textual form › Web publication/site

• Combs, Contact and Chronology: Reconsidering Hair Combs in Early-Historic and Viking-Age Atlantic Scotland

  Ashby, S. P., Nov 2009, In: Medieval Archaeology. 53, 1, p. 1-33 32 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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• 2008

  An Eleventh-Century copper alloy stirrup-strap mount from Overstone, Northamptonshire

  Ashby, S., 2008, In: Northamptonshire Archaeology. 35, p. 287-288 2 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• The Northamptonshire Portable Antiquities Scheme, 2007

  Ashby, S., 2008, In: Northamptonshire Archaeology. 35, p. 288-291 4 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• 2007

  Bone and Antler Combs

  Ashby, S., 2007, In: Datasheets of the Finds Research Group. 40

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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• Interpreting the Plant and Animal Remains from Viking-age Kaupang

  Barrett, J. H., Hall, A. R., Johnstone, C., KENWARD, H. K., O'Connor, T. & Ashby, S., 2007, Kaupang in Skiringssal. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, p. 283-319 (Kaupang Excavation Project Publication Series; vol. 1).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

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• 2006

  More than blood and bling: our many visions of the Vikings

  Ashby, S., 31 Mar 2006, In: The Conversation. 6th March 2014

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article

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• Northamptonshire Portable Antiquities Scheme 2006

  Ashby, S., 2006, In: Northamptonshire Archaeology. 34, p. 153-154

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Trade in Viking Age Britain: Identity and the Production and Distribution of Bone and Antler Combs

  Ashby, S., 2006, Dynamics of Northern Societies: Proceedings of the SILA/NABO Conference on Arctic and North Atlantic Archaeology, Copenhagen, May 10th-14th, 2004. Arneborg, J. & Grønnow, B. (eds.). Copenhagen: National Museum of Copenhagen, p. 273-279 (Studies in Archaeology and History ; vol. 10).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution