Susan K Harrington is an early-medieval archaeologist and Honorary Senior Lecturer at
University College London
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Career
From 2006-2009 she was the research assistant on the
Leverhulme Trust
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funded project 'Beyond the Tribal Hidage: Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in southern England AD 400-750'. She subsequently was part of the research team on the 'People and place: the making of the Kingdom of Northumbria AD 300-800' project at the
University of Durham
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, also funded by the Leverhulme Trust.
She was elected as a fellow of the
Society of Antiquaries of London
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on 9 June 2011.
Select publications
*Brookes, S., Harrington, S., and Welch, M. 2005. "Documenting the dead: creating an online census of Anglo-Saxon burials from Kent", ''Archaeology International'' 9. 28-31
*Brookes, S. and Harrington, S. 2010. ''The kingdom and people of Kent : AD 400-1066 : their history and archaeology''.
*Harrington, S. 2016. "From warp and weft to spear and spindle: Gender identity and textile manufacture in early Anglo-Saxon England", in Sophia E. Kelly and Traci Ardren (eds) ''Gendered Labor in Specialized Economies: Archaeological Perspectives on Female and Male Work''. University Press of Colorado.
References
Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London
British women archaeologists
British archaeologists
21st-century archaeologists
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
21st-century British women writers
Medieval archaeologists
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