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  1. Vikings in England Ate Like the Locals

    Article • Antiquity, February 2026, Antiquity Publications

    Dr Steven P Ashby

  2. Small Finds, Big Questions: Two Decades of Research on Combs in Viking-Age Scotland

    Article • December 2023, De Gruyter

    Dr Steven P Ashby

  3. Vikings in Suffolk! A non-metal object found by a metal-detectorist

    Article • Internet Archaeology, December 2023, Council for British Archaeology

    Dr Steven P Ashby

  4. New Evidence for Early Viking Contact between Hedeby and the Scandinavian North

    Article • Antiquity, August 2023, Antiquity Publications

    Dr Steven P Ashby

  5. Small Finds, Big Questions: Two Decades of Research on Combs in Viking-Age Scotland

    Article • January 2023, Edinburgh University Press

    Dr Steven P Ashby

  6. Late Iron Age Whaling in Scandinavia

    Article • Journal of Maritime Archaeology, December 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Steven P Ashby

  7. North Sea Networks: Tracking How Objects and Ideas Moved Before and During the Viking Age

    Article • September 2022, JSTOR

    Dr Steven P Ashby

  8. Food and cooking in Icelandic literature and law

    Article • Viking and Medieval Scandinavia, January 2021, Brepols Publishers NV

    Dr Steven P Ashby

  9. A History of Combmaking

    Article • February 2020, JSTOR

    Dr Steven P Ashby

  10. Between domestic circles and urban networks

    Article • February 2020, JSTOR

    Dr Steven P Ashby

  11. Crafting the urban network

    Article • February 2020, JSTOR

    Dr Steven P Ashby

  12. Collaboration and expert knowledge

    Article • February 2020, JSTOR

    Dr Steven P Ashby

  13. Constructing specialism

    Article • February 2020, JSTOR

    Dr Steven P Ashby

  14. The combs from the grave that may have launched the Viking Age!

    Article • Estonian Journal of Archaeology, January 2020, Estonian Academy Publishers

    Dr Steven P Ashby

  15. Combs from a Viking-Age settlement at Skaill Bay, Orkney (Northern Scotland)

    Article • May 2019, JSTOR

    Dr Steven P Ashby

  16. A new method for the identification of raw materials in archaeological artefacts

    Article • Measurement Science and Technology, March 2019, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Dr Steven P Ashby

  17. Book Review: Viking-Age transformations: Trade, craft and resources in Western Scandinavia

    Article • Norwegian Archaeological Review, March 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Steven P Ashby

  18. Violent Justice in Viking-Age England and Scandinavia

    Article • Viking and Medieval Scandinavia, January 2018, Brepols Publishers NV

    Dr Steven P Ashby

  19. Book Reviews

    Article • Medieval Archaeology, July 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Steven P Ashby

  20. Book Review: Approaches to medieval artefacts

    Article • Medieval Archaeology, January 2016, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Steven P Ashby

  21. Archaeologies of Hair

    Article • Internet Archaeology, January 2016, Council for British Archaeology

    Dr Steven P Ashby

  22. Hair Through the Ages: Why How We Look Has Always Mattered

    Article • Internet Archaeology, January 2016, Council for British Archaeology

    Dr Steven P Ashby

  23. Face Value: Why Early-Medieval Beards Mattered

    Article • Internet Archaeology, January 2016, Council for British Archaeology

    Dr Steven P Ashby

  24. Loot, reputation and why Vikings went raiding

    Article • Archaeological Dialogues, May 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Steven P Ashby

  25. Studying the movement of Viking-Age craftspeople

    Article • February 2015, JSTOR

    Dr Steven P Ashby

  26. Urban Networks and Arctic Outlands

    Article • European Journal of Archaeology, January 2015, Cambridge University Press

    Søren Sindbæk, Dr Steven P Ashby

  27. Peer Comment

    Article • Internet Archaeology, January 2015, Council for British Archaeology

    Dr Steven P Ashby

  28. Early Medieval Themes and Imagery in Metal Music

    Article • International Journal of Heritage Studies, October 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Steven P Ashby

  29. The Pictish Reindeer Probllem: did the first vikings in Scotland come in peace?

    Article • Journal of Archaeological Science, January 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Steven P Ashby

  30. The Social Secret of Hair: How Hairstyles and Grooming Defined People in Early Medieval Europe

    Article • Archaeological Journal, January 2014, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Steven P Ashby

  31. How easy is it to identify fragments of deer antler to species level?

    Article • December 2013, JSTOR

    Dr Steven P Ashby

  32. Why did people make combs differently in different times and places?

    Article • November 2013, JSTOR

    Dr Steven P Ashby

  33. Burdale: An Anglian Settlement in the Yorkshire Wolds (Data Paper)

    Article • Internet Archaeology, January 2013, Council for British Archaeology

    Professor Julian D Richards, Dr Steven P Ashby

  34. Cottam, Cowlam and Environs: An Anglo-Saxon Estate on The Yorkshire Wolds

    Article • Archaeological Journal, January 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Steven P Ashby

  35. Did combmaking in Viking-Age England operate just as it did in Scandinavia?

    Article • January 2011, Brepols Publishers NV

    Dr Steven P Ashby

  36. A guide to identifying medieval combs

    Article • Internet Archaeology, January 2011, Council for British Archaeology

    Dr Steven P Ashby

  37. The Shifting Viking Timeline: What Ancient Combs Tell Us About Scotland's First Settlers

    Article • Medieval Archaeology, November 2009, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Steven P Ashby