An Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Great Chesterford, Essex
Author: Vera I. Evison
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 256
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKGrossbritannien/Irland - Grab/Gräberfeld - Keramik/Ton - Anthropologie.
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Early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries
Author: Duncan Sayer
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Published: 2020-12-03
Total Pages: 316
ISBN-13: 1526135582
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY) open access license. This book is available as an open access ebook under a CC-BY licence. Early Anglo-Saxon cemeteries are known for their grave goods, but this abundance obscures their interest as the creations of pluralistic, multi-generational communities. This book explores over one hundred early Anglo-Saxon and Merovingian cemeteries, using a multi-dimensional methodology to move beyond artefacts. It offers an alternative way to explore the horizontal organisation of cemeteries from a holistically focused perspective. The physical communication of digging a grave and laying out a body was used to negotiate the arrangement of a cemetery and to construct family and community stories. This approach foregrounds community, because people used and reused cemetery spaces to emphasise different characteristics of the deceased, based on their own attitudes, lifeways and live experiences. This book will appeal to scholars of Anglo-Saxon studies and will be of value to archaeologists interested in mortuary spaces, communities and social archaeology.
Bronze Age Barrow and Anglo-Saxon Cemetery: Archaeological Excavations on Land Adjacent to Upthorpe Road, Stanton Suffolk
Author: Chris Chinnock
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Published: 2023-03-09
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 1803273194
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArchaeological investigations by MOLA on land adjacent to Upthorpe Road, Stanton (2013-2014), revealed the remains of a prehistoric round barrow and a cemetery containing the remains of 67 inhumations with associated grave goods. This book provides detailed analysis of the archaeological features, skeletal assemblage and other artefacts.
An Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Collingbourne Ducis, Wiltshire
Author: Kirsten Egging Dinwiddy
Publisher: Wessex Archaeology
Published: 2016-07-31
Total Pages: 192
ISBN-13: 1911137026
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExcavations at Collingbourne Ducis revealed almost the full extent of a late 5th–7th century cemetery first recorded in 1974, providing one of the largest samples of burial remains from Anglo-Saxon Wiltshire. The cemetery lies 200 m to the north-east of a broadly contemporaneous settlement on lower lying ground next to the River Bourne.
Anglo-Saxon Graves and Grave Goods of the 6th and 7th Centuries AD
Author: Alex Bayliss
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2017-07-05
Total Pages: 1121
ISBN-13: 1351576453
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Early Anglo-Saxon Period is characterized archaeologically by the regular deposition of artefacts in human graves in England. The scope for dating these objects and graves has long been studied, but it has typically proved easier to identify and enumerate the chronological problems of the material than to solve them. Prior to the work of the project reported on here, therefore, there was no comprehensive chronological framework for Early Anglo-Saxon Archaeology, and the level of detail and precision in dates that could be suggested was low. The evidence has now been studied afresh using a co-ordinated suite of dating techniques, both traditional and new: a review and revision of artefact-typology; seriation of grave-assemblages using correspondence analysis; high-precision radiocarbon dating of selected bone samples; and Bayesian modelling using the results of all of these. These were focussed primarily on the later part of the Early Anglo-Saxon Period, starting in the 6th century. This research has produced a new chronological framework, consisting of sequences of phases that are separate for male and female burials but nevertheless mutually consistent and coordinated. These will allow archaeologists to assign grave-assemblages and a wide range of individual artefact-types to defined phases that are associated with calendrical date-ranges whose limits are expressed to a specific degree of probability. Important unresolved issues include a precise adjustment for dietary effects on radiocarbon dates from human skeletal material. Nonetheless the results of this project suggest the cessation of regular burial with grave goods in Anglo-Saxon England two decades or even more before the end of the seventh century. That creates a limited but important discrepancy with the current numismatic chronology of early English sceattas. The wider implications of the results for key topics in Anglo-Saxon archaeology and social, economic and religious history are discussed to conclude the report.
The Christianization of the Anglo-Saxons C.597-c.700
Author: Marilyn Dunn
Publisher: A&C Black
Published: 2010-09-27
Total Pages: 290
ISBN-13: 1441110135
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDraws on historical, ethnographical and anthropological studies to create a fresh understanding of Christianization in medieval Europe.
An Archaeology of the Early Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms
Author: C. J. Arnold
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2005-08-18
Total Pages: 395
ISBN-13: 1134730977
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn Archaeology of the Early Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms is a volume which offers an unparalleled view of the archaeological remains of the period. Using the development of the kingdoms as a framework, this study closely examines the wealth of material evidence and analyzes its significance to our understanding of the society that created it. From our understanding of the migrations of the Germanic peoples into the British Isles, the subsequent patterns of settlement, land-use, trade, through to social hierarchy and cultural identity within the kingdoms, this fully revised edition illuminates one of the most obscure and misunderstood periods in European history.
The Anglo-Saxon World
Author: Nicholas J. Higham
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2013-06-25
Total Pages: 495
ISBN-13: 0300125348
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPresents the Anglo-Saxon period of English history from the fifth century up to the late eleventh century, covering such events as the spread of Christianity, the invasions of the Vikings, the composition of Beowulf, and the Battle of Hastings.
Feasting the Dead
Author: Christina Lee
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 193
ISBN-13: 1843831422
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Anglo-Saxons were not only frequently buried with material artefacts ranging from pots to clothing to jewellery, they were also often buried with items of food; the funeral ritual itself was sometimes marked by feasting, even at the graveside." "Christina Lee examines the place of food and feasting in funeral rituals from the earliest period to the eleventh century, considering the changes and transformations that occurred during this time. She draws on a wide range of sources, from archaeological evidence to the existing texts; she is concerned particularly to look at representations of funeral feasting and how it functioned as a tool for memory, shedding light on the relationship between the living and the dead." -- Prové de l'editor.
Anglo-Saxon Deviant Burial Customs
Author: Andrew Reynolds
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2009-03-26
Total Pages: 340
ISBN-13: 0191567655
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAnglo-Saxon Deviant Burial Customs is the first detailed consideration of the ways in which Anglo-Saxon society dealt with social outcasts. Beginning with the period following Roman rule and ending in the century following the Norman Conquest, it surveys a period of fundamental social change, which included the conversion to Christianity, the emergence of the late Saxon state, and the development of the landscape of the Domesday Book. While an impressive body of written evidence for the period survives in the form of charters and law-codes, archaeology is uniquely placed to investigate the earliest period of post-Roman society - the fifth to seventh centuries - for which documents are lacking. For later centuries, archaeological evidence can provide us with an independent assessment of the realities of capital punishment and the status of outcasts. Andrew Reynolds argues that outcast burials show a clear pattern of development in this period. In the pre-Christian centuries, 'deviant' burial remains are found only in community cemeteries, but the growth of kingship and the consolidation of territories during the seventh century witnessed the emergence of capital punishment and places of execution in the English landscape. Locally determined rites, such as crossroads burial, now existed alongside more formal execution cemeteries. Gallows were located on major boundaries, often next to highways, always in highly visible places. The findings of this pioneering national study thus have important consequences on our understanding of Anglo-Saxon society. Overall, Reynolds concludes, organized judicial behaviour was a feature of the earliest Anglo-Saxon kingdoms, rather than just the two centuries prior to the Norman Conquest.
