Project Publications

Books

• Hamerow, H., McKerracher, M. and the FeedSax team. 2025. Feeding Medieval England: A Long 'Agricultural Revolution', 700-1300 (Oxford: Oxford University Press).
• McKerracher, M. and Hamerow, H. (eds.) 2022. New Perspectives on the Medieval 'Agricultural Revolution': Crop, Stock and Furrow (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press).

Journal articles

• McKerracher, M., Hamerow, H. and Bronk Ramsey, C. 2025. "Medieval settlement chronologies: reflections on an extensive radiocarbon dating programme", Medieval Archaeology 69.2. doi.org/10.1080/00766097.2025.2578115
• McKerracher, M., Hamerow, H., Bogaard, A., Bronk Ramsey, C., Charles, M., Forster, E., Hodgson, J., Holmes, M., Neil, S., Roushannafas, T., Stroud, E. and Thomas, R. 2023. "Feeding Anglo-Saxon England: a bioarchaeological dataset for the study of early medieval agriculture (Data paper)", Internet Archaeology 61. doi:10.11141/ia.61.5
• Stroud, E., Charles, M., Bogaard, A. and Hamerow, H. 2023. "Turning up the heat: Assessing the impact of charring regime on the morphology and stable isotopic values of cereal grains", Journal of Archaeological Science 153, 105754. doi:10.1016/j.jas.2023.105754
• Hamerow, H., McKerracher, M., Stroud, E. and Bogaard, A. 2021. "Weeds and seeds: how functional weed ecology can help reconstruct medieval farming", British Archaeology 181, pp.48-51.
• McKerracher, M., Croft, B., Stamper, P. and Wrathmell, S. 2021. "Late Saxon Crop Processing at Wharram Percy: new radiocarbon dates from the South Manor site", Medieval Settlement Research 36, pp.68-73.
• Holmes, M., Thomas, R. and Hamerow, H. 2021. "Lesions in sheep elbows: insights from a large-scale study", International Journal of Paleopathology 34, pp.50-62. doi:10.1016/j.ijpp.2021.05.007
• Holmes, M., Hamerow, H. and Thomas, R. 2021. "Close Companions? A Zooarchaeological Study of the Human-Cattle Relationship in Medieval England", Animals 11(4): 1174. doi:10.3390/ani11041174
• Holmes, M., Thomas, R. and Hamerow, H. 2021. "Identifying draught cattle in the past: lessons from large-scale analysis of archaeological datasets", International Journal of Paleopathology 33, pp.258-269. doi:10.1016/j.ijpp.2021.05.004
• Thomas, R., Bellis, L., Gordon, R., Holmes, M., Johannsen, N.N., Mahoney, M. and Smith, D. 2021. "Refining the methods for identifying draught cattle in the archaeological record: Lessons from the semi-feral herd at Chillingham Park", International Journal of Paleopathology 33, pp.84-93. doi:10.1016/j.ijpp.2021.02.003
• Holmes, M., Thomas, R. and Hamerow, H. 2021. "Periodontal disease in sheep and cattle: Understanding dental health in past animal populations", International Journal of Paleopathology 33, pp.43-54. doi:10.1016/j.ijpp.2021.02.002
• Hamerow, H., Bogaard, A., Charles, M., Forster, E., Holmes, M., McKerracher, M., Neil, S., Bronk Ramsey, C., Stroud, E. and Thomas, R. 2020. "An Integrated Bioarchaeological Approach to the Medieval “Agricultural Revolution”: A Case Study from Stafford, England, c.AD 800-1200", European Journal of Archaeology 23(4), pp.585-609. doi:10.1017/eaa.2020.6
• Hamerow, H., Bogaard, A., Charles, M., Ramsey, C., Thomas, R., Forster, E., Holmes, M., McKerracher, M., Neil, S. and Stroud, E. 2019. "Feeding Anglo-Saxon England: The bioarchaeology of an agricultural revolution", Antiquity 93(368), E12. doi:10.15184/aqy.2019.27
• McKerracher, M. 2016. "Playing with fire? Charred grain as a proxy for cereal surpluses in early medieval England", Medieval Settlement Research 31, pp.63-66.

News items

• McKerracher, M. 2018. "Introducing FeedSax: Bioarchaeological Explorations of an Early Medieval Agricultural Revolution", Rural History Today 34 (February 2018), pp.4-5.
• Hamerow, H. 2017. "Feeding Anglo-Saxon England: the bioarchaeology of an agricultural revolution (‘FeedSax’)", Medieval Settlement Research 32, pp.85-86
• McKerracher, M. 2017. "FeedSax", Association for Environmental Archaeology Newsletter 137 (November 2017), p.2.