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Dr Toby Martin

Fellow, Ordinary Fellow

Assistant Director

Oxford Lifelong Learning

PhD (Sheffield); MSt, BA (Oxford)

Dr Toby Martin is Assistant Director at Oxford Lifelong Learning, where is responsible for award-bearing and accredited courses.

Early medieval archaeology; material culture studies; burial archaeology; Britain and Europe in the post-Roman fifth to seventh centuries CE. Toby’s research focuses on early medieval archaeology, and he is happy to consider supervising doctoral students on topics relating to the period, particularly regarding the material culture and burial archaeology of the fifth to seventh centuries CE.

Please see this link for more details: Full details of Toby’s research interests, publications and professional responsibilities.

Books

The Cruciform Brooch and Anglo-Saxon England (Boydell and Brewer, 2015)

Dress and Society: Contributions from Archaeology (Oxbow, 2017, co-edited with R. Weetch)
Articles, book chapters and data

Articles, book chapters and data
Martin, T. F. 2020. ‘Casting the net wider: network approaches to artefact variation in post-Roman Europe. Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory (not yet assigned an issue). doi:10.1007/s10816-019-09441-x (open access).

Martin, T. F. 2019. ‘A matter of scale: some impediments to broad archaeological perspectives on post-Roman European bow brooches’. Neue Studien our Sachsenforschung 6, 139-146.

Martin, T. F. & Champness, C. 2019. ‘Cultivating the margins: the Roman and early medieval rural landscape of Barton Park, Oxford’. Oxoniensia 84, 217–241

‘The lives and deaths of people and things: biographical approaches to dress in early Anglo-Saxon England’, in Smith, R. and Watson, G. (eds.) Writing the Lives of People and Things, 67-87 (Ashgate, 2016)

A Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Cruciform Brooches (data-set, Archaeology Data Service, doi: 10.5284/1028833)

‘(Ad)Dressing the Anglo-Saxon body: corporeal meanings and artefacts in early England’, in Blinkhorn, P. and Cumberpatch, C. (eds.) The Chiming of Crack’d Bells, 27-38 (Archaeopress, 2014).

‘Women, knowledge and power: the iconography of early Anglo-Saxon cruciform brooches’, Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History 18 (2013), 1-17.

‘Riveting biographies: the theoretical implications of early Anglo-Saxon brooch repair, customisation and reuse’, in Jervis, B. and Kyle, A. (eds.) Make-Do and Mend: Archaeologies of Compromise, Repair and Reuse, 53-65 (Archaeopress, 2012).