Just rembered this:
The Comparative history of urban origins in non-Roman Europe : Ireland, 
Wales, Denmark, Germany, Poland and Russia from the ninth to the 
thirteenth century / edited by H.B. Clarke and Anngret Simms . BAR 2 
vols, 1985

geoff carver wrote:
> can anyone point me to quick & easy access to site reports or publications
> on urban excavations from poland or the former czechoslovakia?
> preferrably in a language i can read (english, german, french, dutch)?
> i'm specifically interested in anything dealing with the time when towns
> were founded, especially research design and methods
>
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