TY - BOOK AU - Dinwiddy,Kirsten Egging AU - Stoodley,Nick AU - Barnett,Catherine AU - Goller,Rob TI - An Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Collingbourne Ducis, Wiltshire T2 - Wessex Archaeology report SN - 9781911137016 AV - DA670.W7 D56 2016eb U1 - 942.31701 PY - 2016/// CY - Salisbury PB - Wessex Archaeology Ltd KW - HISTORY KW - Europe KW - Great Britain KW - bisacsh KW - Antiquities KW - fast KW - History KW - ukslc KW - Collingbourne Ducis (England) KW - Wiltshire (England) KW - England KW - Collingbourne Ducis KW - Wiltshire KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-176); 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 N2 - 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 UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1340112 ER -