Both books are paperback, with page size around 8"x 11.5". They survey artifacts from several sites at York (England), which range in date from ~7th cent to ~16th cent. They are archaeology books, somewhat similar to the MoL Medieval Finds series, and of the same technical level and writing style.

V17. f13: Craft, Industry and Everyday Life: Wood and Woodworking in Anglo-Scandinavian and Medieval York, Carole A. Morris (2000), isbn 1 902771 10 9

This fascicule covers just about anything to do with wood. Woodworking tools, lathes, woodworking techniques, lumber use, as well as objects. Included are bowls, cups, coopered vessels (buckets, casks, well-linings, tubs, hoops, lids, spouts), pot-lids, stoppers, spoons, spatulae, baskets, troughs, churns, cressets, a bread peel, hollowed vessels, knife handles, boxes of all sorts, chests, furniture (stools, garderobe lids & seats), pins, combs, agricultural equipment (shovels, spades, forked things, mattocks, rakes, laddres, handles, a plough), textile equipment (although this is covered in more detail in V17f11 Textile Production at 16-22 Coppergate, there is discussion of a rippler, flax pounders, scutching stuff, bale pins, distaffs, spindles, loom stuff), tally sticks, leatherworking tools, a saddle bow, ropemaking equipment, gaming boards and pieces, musical instruments (syrinx, lute bridge, pipe), a 15th cent bowling ball, spinning tops, toy sword, door latches, shingles, shutters, window frames, sluices, panels, floor planks, pegs, trenails, and reused boat timbers, among other things. In addition to the catalog listing and line drawings, there are a few photographs, but none in color. There are discussions along with the objects of similar finds from other locations, and use of the items as indicated through accounts and illustrations. This book is about $60 (US), and around 350+ pages in length.

The other fascicule, f14, is Craft, Industry and Everyday Life: Finds from Anglo-Scandinavian York, A.J. Mainman and N.S.H. Rogers (2000)
isbn 1 902771 11 7

This is a somewhat shorter book, and it focuses on the earlier periods, mostly 9th-11th century stuff, some earlier, a little later stuff. The index lists a forthcoming book in the same series which is Craft, Industry, and Everyday Life: Medieval Finds from York (P.J. Ottoway & N.S.H. Rogers), which I hope will have lots of juicy stuff on the later centuries, but which isn't yet published.

This book discusses metalworking, glass manufacturing, amber, and textile production techniques & equipment, as well as the following items: household equipment (glass vessels, stone vessels, stone lamps, spoons, querns), structural fittings and furnishings (fittings, studs, mounts, binding, rings, double-spiked loop, nails, clench bolts, perforated strips), a horse harness, trade and exchange (balances, weights), gaming pieces (stone counters, pottery & tile counters, stone playing pieces, jet & shale playing pieces), personal ornament (buckles, strap-guide, strap ends, brooches, hooked tags, dress pins, wire rings, finger-rings, pendants, beads, jet & shale bracelets), stone objects (sculpture, fossils, polished stuff, grave covers). There is a catalogue and lots of line drawings throughout, plus some nice color photos, especially of the beads and a nice hnefatafl board. I think the price for this book is around $50 US.

Some of their libraries will allow people in off the street, but not any of the (imho) really good ones, like Widener (main graduate library) or the Fogg Art Library.

*sigh*