An Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Collingbourne Ducis, Wiltshire / by Kirsten Egging Dinwiddy and Nick Stoodley ; with contributions by Catherine Barnett [and 6 others] ; illustrations by Rob Goller [and 3 others].

Includes bibliographical references (pages 169-176).

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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.

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.

English text with abstract in French and German.

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