An Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Collingbourne Ducis, Wiltshire
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An Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Collingbourne Ducis, Wiltshire

  1. 230 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

An Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Collingbourne Ducis, Wiltshire

About this book

Excavations 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.

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Yes, you can access An Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Collingbourne Ducis, Wiltshire by Kirsten Egging Dinwiddy, Nick Stoodley in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & European Medieval History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Wessex Archaeology
Year
2016
eBook ISBN
9781911137023
Topic
History
Subtopic
European Medieval History
Index
History

Table of contents

  1. List of Figures
  2. List of Plates
  3. List of Tables
  4. List of contributors
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Abstract
  7. Foreign language summaries
  8. Preface
  9. Chapter 1: Introduction
  10. Project background
  11. Location, topography and geology
  12. Archaeological and historical background
  13. Methodology
  14. Chapter 2: The Cemetery
  15. Soil sequence
  16. The cemetery features
  17. Inhumation graves and burials
  18. Cremation graves and cremation-related deposits
  19. Other cemetery features
  20. Grave catalogue
  21. Cremation graves and cremation-related deposits
  22. Unstratified metalwork – probable grave goods
  23. Chapter 3: Human Skeletal Material
  24. Unburnt human bone
  25. Methods
  26. Results
  27. Concluding remarks
  28. Cremated human bone and aspects of the cremation rite
  29. Methods
  30. Results and discussion
  31. Concluding remarks
  32. Chapter 4: Finds
  33. Bed burial (grave 96)
  34. Headboard stays
  35. Double cleats
  36. Eyelets or split spiked loops
  37. Grave cover
  38. Discussion
  39. Metalwork
  40. Weapons
  41. Personal equipment
  42. Vessels
  43. Jewellery and dress accessories
  44. Discussion
  45. Mineral-preserved organics and compositional analysis of metalwork
  46. Condition of the metalwork
  47. Investigative conservation
  48. Metallographic examination of knives
  49. Introduction
  50. Methods
  51. Results
  52. Discussion
  53. Conclusion
  54. Coins
  55. Catalogue
  56. Beads
  57. Glass beads
  58. Amber beads
  59. Other beads
  60. Distribution of beads
  61. Discussion
  62. Pottery
  63. Cremation graves
  64. Inhumation graves
  65. Other features
  66. Charcoal
  67. Methods
  68. Results
  69. Chapter 5: Discussion of Burial Practices
  70. Cemetery layout and organisation
  71. Burial practice
  72. Other aspects of burial practice
  73. Grave construction and embellishment
  74. Cemetery structures
  75. Orientation
  76. Multiple burial
  77. Burial position
  78. Social structure and community identity
  79. Gender and age
  80. Social hierarchy
  81. Community and household identity
  82. Collingbourne Ducis in the wider landscape
  83. Appendices
  84. Appendix 1. Catalogue by grave of all material examined and analysed for mineral-preserved organics (MPO)
  85. Appendix 2. X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysis of the metalwork
  86. Bibliography