Post-Roman Britain to Anglo-Saxon England: Burial Practices Reviewed, Volume 21British Archaeological Reports, 1999 - 204 pages A general review of burial practices from the Late Iron Age up to and including the Anglo-Saxon period. Elizabeth O'Brien's study includes evidence for burial rites, human remains, burial structures and enclosures, and brief mention of grave goods where they appear. She seeks to explain, through literary references as well as the evidence cited, why certain burial practices were used and where they were influenced from. More than half the book is devoted to a database of cemetery and burial data compiled by the author. |
Contents
CHAPTER | 1 |
Appendix to Chapter 1 | 26 |
Endnotes to Chapter 2 | 43 |
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Anglo-Saxon BAR BKL KNF BAR unr BKL BKL KNF unr BKL_ONLY a UNPROT BKL_ONLY unr UNPROT burials Cambridgeshire cemetery CHAMB GR_STR PEN_D CHAMB unr GR_STR COF SL_LN PL_LN COF unr SL_LN COUNTY OLD COUNTY OLD COUNTY CROUCH unr BAR DECAP unr CREM DECAP unr W_OUT_OBJS EXTEND PRE_HIS_FT GR_STR PEN_D ANN_D GR_STR PL_LN PEN_D GR_STR unr PEN_D grave GRID_REF INHUM Iron Age KNF a SP_GR KNF ONLY RECT_D KNF unr SP_GR Lincolnshire MULTIP unr CREM MULTIP unr DECAP NAME_MAJOR NAME_MINOR Northamptonshire ORIENT unr BKL_ONLY ORIENT w-e Oxfordshire PL_LN CHAMB GR_STR PRE_HIS_FT unr PRONE unr DECAP PRONE unr MULTIP RECT_D CROUCH Romano-British SL_LN PL_LN CHAMB SL_LN PL_LN UNPROT SP_GR REFS Meaney UNPROT CHAMB GR_STR unr BAR BKL unr BKL_ONLY unr unr COF SL_LN unr CREM W_OUT_OBJS unr CROUCH unr unr DECAP unr unr GR_STR unr unr MULTIP unr unr PRONE unr unr SP_GR REFS unr SP_GR unr unr UNPROT ANN_D unr unr Wiltshire