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with contributions from F. K. Annable, R. Bland, R. A. G. Carson, Jean Cook, Valerie Cooper, Elisabeth Crowfoot, C. J. Going, M. J. Heyworth, D. R. Hook, J. Kent, Jennifer Price, Dale Serjeantson, A. Waldron, and D. F. Williams. Destruction by commercial gravel-digging in the fields north-west of the Roman town of Great Chesterford, Essex in 1952 produced evidence of Anglo-Saxon graves near the known position of one of the Roman cemeteries surrounding the town. As a result of subsequent excavation on behalf of the Inspectorate of Ancient Monuments 161 inhumation graves, 33 cremation graves, 2 horse graves and 2 dog burials were uncovered, and the positioning of some of the graves, together with other evidence, indicated the earlier presence of tumuli. The adult female graves were well furnished with a variety of jewellery. Some of the men were provided with weapons as usual, but a large percentage of the graves were without weapons, and as some of these graves contained other items of some interest the identity of these men comes into question. There was an unusually large percentage of children's graves, probably reflecting a more accurate picture than usual of the normal mortalit

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Author

Vera I. Evison ; with contributions from F.K. Annable ... [et al.]

Publisher

Council for British Archaeology

Published

1994

Language

EN

ISBN

9781872414379

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Humanities