An Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Collingbourne Ducis, Wiltshire /
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| Author / Creator: | Dinwiddy, Kirsten Egging, author. |
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| Imprint: | Salisbury : Wessex Archaeology Ltd, 2016. ©2016 |
| Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 176 pages) : illustrations (some color), color maps, color plans |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Wessex Archaeology report ; 37 Wessex Archaeology report ; no. 37. |
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| Format: | E-Resource Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11407745 |
Table of Contents:
- List of Figures; List of Plates; List of Tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; Abstract; Foreign language summaries; Preface; Chapter 1: Introduction; Project background; Location, topography and geology; Archaeological and historical background; Methodology; Chapter 2: The Cemetery; Soil sequence; The cemetery features; Inhumation graves and burials; Cremation graves and cremation-related deposits; Other cemetery features; Grave catalogue; Cremation graves and cremation-related deposits; Unstratified metalwork
- probable grave goods; Chapter 3: Human Skeletal Material.
- Unburnt human boneMethods; Results; Concluding remarks; Cremated human bone and aspects of the cremation rite; Methods; Results and discussion; Concluding remarks; Chapter 4: Finds; Bed burial (grave 96); Headboard stays; Double cleats; Eyelets or split spiked loops; Grave cover; Discussion; Metalwork; Weapons; Personal equipment; Vessels; Jewellery and dress accessories; Discussion; Mineral-preserved organics and compositional analysis of metalwork; Condition of the metalwork; Investigative conservation; Metallographic examination of knives; Introduction; Methods; Results; Discussion.
- ConclusionCoins; Catalogue; Beads; Glass beads; Amber beads; Other beads; Distribution of beads; Discussion; Pottery; Cremation graves; Inhumation graves; Other features; Charcoal; Methods; Results; Chapter 5: Discussion of Burial Practices; Cemetery layout and organisation; Burial practice; Other aspects of burial practice; Grave construction and embellishment; Cemetery structures; Orientation; Multiple burial; Burial position; Social structure and community identity; Gender and age; Social hierarchy; Community and household identity; Collingbourne Ducis in the wider landscape; Appendices.
- Appendix 1. Catalogue by grave of all material examined and analysed for mineral-preserved organics (MPO)Appendix 2. X-ray fluorescence (XRF) analysis of the metalwork; Bibliography.