Grenville Astill is a professor in the department of archaeology at the University of Reading. Astill is a specialist in Medieval urbanisation, the medieval countryside and landscape archaeology,

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and technology and industry. He received a Phd from the University of Birmingham. Astill is a director of the Bordesley Abbey Project.

Awards and honours

Astill was elected as a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries in 1988.

Selected publications

*''Medieval Farming and Technology: The Impact of Agricultural Change in Northwest Europe'' (edited with J. Langdon), 1997 *"Community, Identity and the Later Anglo-Saxon Town", in W. Davies, G. Halsall and A. Reynolds (eds), ''People and Space in the Middle Ages, 300-1300'', Turnhout, 2006, 233-54. *"Medieval Towns and Urbanization", in R. Gilchrist and A. Reynolds (eds), ''1957-2007. SMA Anniversary Monograph'', Leeds, 2009, 255-70 *"Exchange, coinage and the economy of early medieval England". In J. Escalona (ed), ''Scale and Scale Change in Western Europe in the First Millennium''. Brepols. *"Overview: Trade, Exchange and Urbanisation". In S. Crawford, H. Hamerow and D. Hinton (eds), ''The Oxford Handbook of Anglo-Saxon Archaeology''. Oxford University Press.

References

Year of birth missing (living people) Academics of the University of Reading British archaeologists Living people Alumni of the University of Birmingham {{UK-archaeologist-stub