Amazon.com description: Product Description: The latest addition to the very popular series on "Craft, industry and everyday life" which offers accessible and thorough coverage of important evidence of artifact finds from York, setting them in their broad social and cultural context to explore details of their manufacture, distribution and use. This volume provides a general outline of the methods of shoemaking, sheath and scabbard making and the decorative techniques employed, as well as detailed descriptions of the leather items themselves. Also included is a summary of the Anglo-Scandinavian shoe and sheath assemblages in context to the Anglo-Saxon background and contemporary material elsewhere in the British Isles, as well as similarities between York leather assemblages and those recovered throughout north-west Europe.